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.

In this assignment I intend to define ‘counselling skills and knowledge’ and then show how I actively employ these qualities during my everyday life. These include informal helping interactions with family and friends, in a supervisory capacity at work and during skills practice sessions as part of my counselling course. Finally I’ll analyse the effects that these helping interactions have on me personally and the various ways in which I deal with those effects.

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)

In this stage, the helper seeks to move the speaker from stuckness to hope by helping them choose an area that they have the energy to move forward on, that would make a difference and benefit them.

Firstly, the thought is about helping process theory and as a guide, which necessitate frequent question that is always asked; “Why does a particular method or strategy work or not work? This is known as mental theorizing that denotes rational rather than a feeling function. Helper requires a guiding theory to assist to make sense of complex helping process. It is believed that helper can help others without a thought about theory, but if it means working systematically in helping process, they require some “hooks” to execute the experiences and several frameworks of references in attainment perspectives on their work and improving the services. The core value of theory is to give direction to action phase of helping, however theory may not be required to begin a relationship, but it is important when making a decision to assist helpee in behavior change, and helper is required to have clear

By being aware of the essential communication skills, I believe it does not only make me a better helper but also a better friend and listener. In this paper I will discuss about my personal experience as a helper during a counselling session and also reflect on what I have learnt during the previous 10 weeks in the classroom.

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

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

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

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.

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 union between the helper and helpee is important to nurture a constructive approach in advancing and realizing the purpose of helping relationships. Helping relationship surround care of skills of helping process called microskill hierarchy namely; interviewing, counselling and psychotherapy that are components in relationship with helpee. All microskill approaches are meant to support helpee thrive through issues, and helper listening to helpee’s story.

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,

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.