Counselling P1

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.

For me, the most important role of values in the helping relationship is about the helping process that will lead to effective helping outcomes, helper function as a whole person, as a skilled technician and while in contact with helpee. Helper’s personhood is about thinking which enable the helper to evaluate helping process while in progress. It likely that helper may think and evaluates themselves, their helpee, and the helping process privately after the process.

The 'counsellor-client work alliance' (Burwell & Chen, 2006) is essential for a productive and active client as it ensures motivation and empowerment through the collaborative identification of strengths, progress and development in relation to achieving their preferred future and to identify strengths to accomplish this outcome, also known as co-constructing solutions (O'Connelle 2005)

In everyday life people experience difficulties and problems that they feel they are not able to deal with on their own and need help with. The help that people receive to overcome their problems can be in many different forms. People may receive help in an informal way, such as having a chat to a close friend or relative, who can offer support and advice or they may seek help in a more formal capacity from various helping professionals, such as counsellors, social workers, psychiatrists, doctors, etc. For all of these professionals it is their

This essay, will draw upon my own personal experiences of building a therapeutic relationship using case study of a service user in practice. This will then be analysed and discussed to show the importance of such a relationship using Peplau theoretical framework. It could be argued that therapeutic relationship is at the heart of nursing due to interpersonal approach. This relationship is defined by Peplau (1988, pp9-11) as

Chapter three has a main point of informing the readers why helpers put so much focus on developing a steady relationship between the helper and client. As well as how helpers can develop those relationships. Therapeutic relationships are more critical to create than having the best

People who experience troubles can receive help for their problems in both formal and informal ways. An informal helping relationship can be as simple as a chat with a friend while offering advice and support. The counselling approach differs considerably form formal counselling which this essay will discuss.

The helping relationship centres on direct social work practice that are formulated by agencies that function as social support to individuals and families looking for help in structured or formal manner in form of interview. Helping relationship that is structured or formal is self-motivated, focused and always changing at both verbal and non-verbal communication. Most effective feelings and quality of help are very crucial.

Effective helpers help clients place reasonable demands on themselves and, in the process help them value and celebrate their successes. Challenging strengths help the client explore the assets and resources they have but fail to use. Helper’s must be sure that self-challenge exercise does not become self-demeaning or self-destructive. The main goal is to help clients challenge their strengths rather than their weaknesses. (pages 192 – 212)

According to the Helping Skills Model (2016), the stage of building relationships includes the concepts of entry, clarification, structure, and relationship. This semester I have been able to practice helping skills in two distinct ways, both of which require different practices in regards to the building relationships aspect of helping. Participating in interventions, in my opinion, does not provide a good opportunity to build a relationship with the student. You see them for maybe an hour, typically twenty minutes, and are forced to quickly introduce yourself, learn about them, and address issues that have been occurring. I have never had an opportunity to follow up with a student after intervening, so in

The professional has to be able to motivate the client to work towards accomplishing their goals. Otherwise, there would be no reason for the client to see that professional if the client just wants to talk to a friend figure. As these factors set the power imbalance, conflict is created which can potentially damage the helping relationship. However, the way a professional works through those conflicts is what makes or breaks the helping relationship. The professional has to understand the client’s point of view, and incorporate positive communication behaviors into the interactions in order to work through the conflicts and continue to build a therapeutic

In counselling it is really important that a relation is made clear at the start and how confidential there information is. There can be different informative things to be discussed at the start which will help to develop a good relation between the counsellor and the client.

A helping profession is one that nurtures the growth of or addresses the problems of a person's physical, psychological, intellectual, emotional or spiritual well-being.

This movie is about how families and friends cope with a mental illness. With the help of Dr Berman, it is clear how to be able to unravel Lars’s needs in a slow pace. Her focus is on her professional, yet intimate relationship with Lars. The movie teaches us how we should not hope for a life without problems or obstacles but rather see them as opportunities to grow in our capacity to love and be kind.

A client that has the positive influence of a helper has a better chance of learning to work towards and maintain a positive mind frame and feeling of self-worth and overall happiness. A client without at least one helper involved in their life will have a hard time learning how to gain a positive mind frame and feeling of self-worth on their own. This positivity cannot be learned without a helper and the longer it is delayed and not displayed within the clients life the longer the client will remain hindered in development of mental,