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Changing the mind, leading the client to solutions through specific questioning techniques will allow the client to formulate ideas.

This How a client perceives a counselor is very important in how they effective they feel they

To enable the client understands what you say you should keep to conversation short and simple, ask the client to repeat or rephrase the information you have just given, look at the client and see if they are listening as sometimes when communication a confused person may not be able to understand and start to ignore the information so it is important to keep eye contact with the

During this initial session, the client stated she is seeking counseling to "help find herself" due to some concerns she is dealing with in her personal life. When asked "to describe what does finding herself mean" the client was unable to answer. The client struggled to provide her view or a meaning to certain issues she identified as concerns. The counselor then assesses the client's family and her interactions with her family to find a correlation in her family interaction and what changes she wants to make in her personal life. Initial impression from the counselor is the client is aware of herself and her family and what she views as a positive and negative interaction which has or could impact the way she views things now. The client

5. Briefly explain how you would clarify whether the counselling you can offer is suitable for Tim.

The relationship between the client and myself is very important because, I want the relationship to be built on trust. Once the client feels comfortable in expressing themselves in a safe environment, it will create opportunity to gain insight about the client’s concern in helping develop an action plan to assist them towards achieving their

that the counsellor is not fight ended themselves or alarmed by what they are sharing but can

I found that I need to make improvements in many respects. First, I need to improve my opening statement to make it more clearly and smoothly and give my client an open question to encourage her to talk about her issue. Moreover, I need to make an improvement on identifying specific emotions that clients are feeling. In this session, I failed to use “feeling” vocabulary to reflect her feelings and create an empathic environment. In addition, I need to learn not to let my own experience and judgement influence the helping process. For example, when my client was talking about how smoking habit took away her studying time, I was thinking, “exactly, bad habits always influence many students’ academic performance in a negative way.” Although I did not say it, I wanted to say this to help her feel accepted and understood. This may not what she was thinking, but I was thinking it because I have experienced it before. To effectively help people explore themselves, I should make an improvement in these

The client may be feeling nervous or timid during the phone call or conversation, and should be

This brings summarizing into play. Welch (2014), describes summarizing as paraphrasing. Restating what the client has said into your own words. This allows the client to know that you’re attentive, and understanding that you guys are on the same page. Summaries can either be used to move on from a specific topic or aid in further dissection of the topic. The summary is gathering all information gathered from the session. The clinician is then able to formulate a plan of action based on the problems, concerns, and develop

Educate the client on and give opportunities to practice social and communication skills. Rationale: practice makes perfect, especially in a comfortable environment that will increase the chance they will continue.

To what extent is a counsellor more than just a good listener? In your discussion we would like you to draw on key elements that form the practise of counselling. In addition we would like you to consider your own qualities and skills and identify what you need to do to progress in the profession.

L. (2010), shared information on how the changes in goals and outcomes has gone from the understanding that it is not just through the hard work of the counsellor, but due to, constant checking and relationship made between the counsellor and the clients. It gave clear examples of different practical strategies to support clients during the process. Also sharing what does not work is also described in detail and allows for an easy read.

As in the module lecture, there was the “direct expression of anger.” The way that it was expressed was by the way the client thinks that she did this, she did that, achieved it, and that’s it. From the client’s perspective, it felt like a dismissal. The counselor addressed to her client that she was dismissing the idea of counseling ending. It seemed as though the client was aware of counseling ending, but probably not so soon, and what is the process of counseling ending. Other than that, the counselor explained, “ending counseling” in a different perspective. Ending counseling is an important aspect. It based on what was done,

For example, Elliot (2011) suggests that critical thinking whereby a counsellor gradually changes his perspective to accept both views simultaneously. That is, the counsellor’s view on euthanasia and his obligation to follow the ACA’s code of ethics. In addition, the counsellor’s simultaneous viewpoint requires support from a supervisor that underpins their approach on client centred counselling to reinforce and guide the counsellor through his value conflict. This supervision/guidance encourages the counsellor to introspect thus develop his self-awareness, empathy, self-care, authenticity and efficacy as a professional. Machin (2014) suggests that knowing your scope of practice coupled with support from staff, management, family/friends and active social participation is crucial for the good health of