Wendy Lipps PSYC 418 Week 8 Dialogue

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Week 8 Dialogue Wendy Lipps College of Arts and Science Regent University PSYC.418 Counseling Skills Professor Mary Harlinger, PH.D June 29, 2023 Week 8 Dialogue During this course, we have learned a lot of different skills to use while counseling others. I believe that all the skills we have learned are important since every client is unique. All the skills need to be used during sessions depending on what works best for the client. I know that when it comes to self-disclosure, I will use all three approaches depending on the need of the client. Personal identification, normalization, and reactive response. All three of these will work during a session. One of the three approaches will work during a session with a client ( Bottrill, S., Pistrang, N., Barker, C., & Worrell, M. 2010). When it comes to wanting to be a drug counselor, I believe that cognitive behavioral therapy is the approach that is important in counseling substance use and addiction. This will help in the recognition of past issues (abuse, neglect, family, friends, environment) that have led to the client’s addiction and the way that they think. Plus, I want to have the Lord active in my counseling approach. I know that as a Christian, I need to lead non-believers, or believers that are stuck in sinful nature to be reborn into Christ (saved). I will lean on the Lord to give me the words and guidance I need to guide my clients into a relationship with Him. Scripture says, “If

any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraided not; and it shall be given him”(James 1:5 KJV). To help them build their relationship with the Lord and learn to depend on and lean on Him in their recovery (Clinton, T.E., Ohlschlager, G, E., 2002). I still believe that every struggle, hurdle, hurt, loss, and being in foster care has made me who I am. As well as lead me to the Lord. I believe that we must go through something or several things to have the yearning to want something different. Plus, the realization that we must have something bigger than ourselves to accomplish it. It is the Lord’s way of trying to get your attention to lean on Him and build a relationship with Him. Coming to the realization that we cannot do it alone. We need God for guidance and to get rid of the feeling of loneliness and to feel like we are whole and have a purpose. The theories and skills that we have learned have taught me that all clients are unique and different. That one approach might work with one client and not another one. Having knowledge of the different approaches and skills and practicing them will help me reach more clients than just staying focused on a handful of them. Especially when the approach does not seem to be helping or reaching the client and their needs The more clients that I can reach and help in my profession as a drug counselor and Christian the better. REFERENCE S Bottrill, S., Pistrang, N., Barker, C., & Worrell, M. (2010). The use of therapist self-disclosure: Clinical psychology trainees’ experiences. Psychotherapy, 20(2)pgs. 165–180. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503300903170947 Clinton, T.E., Ohlschlager, G, E., (2002)(Vol. 1) Competent Christian Counseling: Foundations and Practice of Compassionate Soul Care. Waterbrook Press OL875443M Holy Bible Kings James Version 2019 Eighth Printing Hendrickson

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