Analyse Your Own Strengths and Weaknesses in Counselling Skills D1

I have been at my site for about seven almost eight weeks now and I cannot believe we are already half way done with the semester. It has been a great journey thus far and I hope to learn more in the second half of my journey. Since this is my half way point I want to mention that everything seems to be so much more comfortable, but not necessarily easier yet. I think being a good counselor takes many years and much more reflection on a daily basis. I also feel like I am learning new things every day as a trainee and that I am working on what it really means to be a counselor each day. Finding my identity as a counselor is a big part of this process and I feel as though it is always changing and transforming into a better self each day. I like

The decision to take this course was rooted in a deepening interest in psychotherapy, self–development, the welfare of other people and in a desire to gain a theoretical base to enrich my current arts and health practice.

I believe I excel as a counselor because I try my hardest to make sure every camper has the best experience they have had. It doesn't matter what I'm doing, I’ll put it down to help a camper have an improved experience or to grow their knowledge in a given area. If a camper was working on a rank or was having a problem I would always sit down with them and make sure they had a plan to finish their rank and work on the next one. As an example of this, the third weekend of the first session I had two camp 3 kids, Will and Jack, who came down the pier asking to get their first mate. Normally during the weekends we don’t do ranks because we are half staffed. When they asked me normally the answer is “sorry,

Carl Rogers, Born in Chicago in 1902 as the 4th of 6 children in a strict Fundamentalist Christian household.

Being attentive means giving all of your physical attention to another person so that you are fully present for them. This will help you to notice what the client is NOT saying, by noticing their body language, and also their tone and pace of voice. The use of non-verbal cues and the counsellor’s own body language conveys to the client that he is interested in what the client has to say. (Bolton 1979). Managing silences from the client shows

Another skill I used within this session is a technique also known as paraphrasing. Paraphrasing refers to stating in one’s own words what they think the client means helping to ensure their understanding and interest in the client (DeVito, 2010). I felt that I demonstrated this when the client said “As the term progresses I get lazier, but at the beginning of the semester I am productive, and it feels rewarding when I do, do well and I feel better about myself and everyone is proud of me as well when I get the results and stuff, but there’s this thing that comes into my mind that said I can’t do this and maybe I start rethinking about staying in uni and I start considering dropping it, so I can have more free time.” I reply by saying “Ok so you are saying that it is kind of a relief when the work is done, however you are finding it hard to kind of keep up, and maybe you don’t

As a potential counselor, there are many areas that I need to grow in to be an effective therapist. Being in a graduate program learning about different theoretical orientations, and participating in mock interviews has really been an eye opener for me. Not only am I recognizing my own personal style in therapy, but I feel I am identifying my strengths and weaknesses as well. Acknowledging that there is always room for improvement, I am also sensing which population I prefer to work with. Amongst the different types of populations (gender, ethnic background, religion, age), I understand there are various clinical issues that affect each group differently and would need a specific type of therapy or a treatment with combined therapeutic elements

Edgar answered that he was at # 9. He stated that he is more relaxed and that he is getting used to the daily life in the shelter. He said that he enjoys watching movies and playing video games.

This essay is to illustrate my understanding of the skills of counselling. Evaluate and analyse the value of counselling skill used throughout the recording of the DVD. Furthermore, I will talk about my improvement that I have accomplished during completing this module and lastly I will demonstrate exactly how I can incorporate theories and approaches to support different skills used in the recording of the DVD.

Counselor received the job seeking skills clinic report back from the sessions Dana participated in on 5/23 & 5/25.

For this essay there will be a critical evaluation of the counselling approaches and skills that are used which can guide the practice of education professionals and benefit relationships with children/ young people in supporting their social and emotional well-being. The approaches that will be looked at and compared are the Person-centred approach and the Psychodynamic approach. The approaches will be discussed and linked to the use in an educational context by teachers with children and young people. The strengths and weaknesses of these approaches will also be examined. It is important for teacher to support children and young people’s social and emotional development right for the start of their educational experiences in the early years. The statutory frame work for the early years published by the department for education in 2014 makes sure that every practitioner follows by law the learning and development requirements of every child. The DFE 2014 suggests educational programs have to include activities and experiences involving the children as suggested: personal social and emotional development entails assisting children to develop an encouraging view of themselves, and others; to make positive relationships and develop respect for others, progress on their social skills and acquire the skill how to deal and control their feelings, to know how to behaviour correctly in groups and to have self confidence in what they can do. From this practitioners can pick up on

You made some good points when comes to Natural Counseling Abilities. The first being holistic healing, Wicks (2012) implies counselors must first take necessary steps to endorse resiliency, becoming core elements for therapist to experience their daily duties; referring to it as the inner life, a place that should be explored and brought up through the practice of mindfulness.

The client was calm and was listening to each one in the room in a good way. Speech was rapid and fluid. The client’s memory and judgment were good.

I feel like I was good at listening to my client, and I also felt as if I did a wonderful job of asking open questions, paraphrasing, key word encouragers, and using key word encouragers. Using these skills allowed my client to become more comfortable, and allow them to expand on their current situation. I did a much better job of not smiling when it wasn’t appropriate. I will consider this a strength because, there was this one time were my client was discussing something that made her happy, and I mirrored her by smiling politely. Also I would say that my tone of voice was soothing. Having a soothing voice allowed my client to become comfortable, open up to me more, and most importantly feel like she could talk to me forever. In addition to having a soothing voice, I feel like I had the body language to match. To me my body language seemed very relaxed, and attentive. I believe it was the beginning of the interview where my client was slouched in her chair, and didn’t seem as attentive. The more I showed good body language, she started to get really comfortable. This showed me that I was doing a great job of demonstrating good body language skills. One of the biggest strengths that I brought to role play 2, was being able to complete a perfect summarization of our last session. This skill really allowed me and my client to go into our session really smoothly. It also, allowed my client to know that I heard everything that she was telling me in our last meeting together.

I also used strengths-based practice to help base the meeting around the future and solutions (Hammond, 2010). This meant that the meeting would be client-led instead of myself. This was evident by the fact that I let