Helping Interaction

Therapists can help clients feel their feelings more fully by creating an environment where the client feels safe. Helping client’s feel their feelings rather than talk about them intellectually opens an opportunity for the client to enter their own experience more fully. Using open-ended questions to explore the client’s feelings can be effective. Therapists should clarify what the affective word the client uses means; not just assume they understand. Angry can mean many different things to many different people. Getting clarification not only helps the therapist understand more but protects them from overidentifying or misperceiving the client’s experience as being the same as they have experienced. It allows the therapist to enter the client’s subjective world. Entering the client’s subjective world, having the client feel respected and understood, increases the trust in the relationship. It gives the client the opportunity to learn more about themselves and possibly have a corrective emotional experience because they are met with empathy and validation from the therapist rather than the judgement, disdain, and invalidation they may have experienced with others in their lives. Another way a therapist can help a client experience their feelings is by speaking to the incongruence they perceive between what the client is sharing and the accompanying affect. This intervention starts

Since the helper’s self-disclosure is about sharing their experiences that are appropriate as well as culturally appropriate and is only for the purpose to serve the client. A helper should also avoid telling the client how they should behave because of some client’s desire more explicit instructions or challenges. Nevertheless, be careful that some clients need a specific, and a direct problem to address their tactics. Also, the helper needs to exercise caution and not to violate the empowerment value by challenging the client, even though; it’s not indirectly by forcing them to accept your values. The fact is challenging strengths help the client explore the assets and resources they have failed to use. As a helper, it’s important to make sure that self-challenging exercises do not become self-demeaning or self-destructive. The focus is to help clients challenge their strengths rather than their weaknesses. Therefore, it is also essential to know the source of reluctance is in the client, due to their history of experiencing an intensity of care, lack of confidence, fear of disorganization and even

A counselor that is empathetic towards the client will often show that he or she is sharing the individual’s experience (Zaki, 2014). In the video, the counselor verbally asked open-ended questions and reflected what he was told. The counselor also reflected words or analogies

I beleive that if I cannot be open and honest with myself then how can I expect the client to be open and honest with me. Through experience I Understand how daunting it is to express your thoughts and feelings, not knowing how you will be judged or how others may react towards you. Personally by offering my clients a safe place to be listened to, showing them unconditional positive regard by showing them understanding and respect and helping them to gain back their locus of evaluation has had a positive effect on me also. I feel reassured that I am a good person that i am useful and happy in the knowledge that i have given my clients a positive experience that I have helped them through a difficult and sometimes dark confusing time I am being who I truely am as this is what I have wanted to do for some time now.

Before doing this log, I did not realize how much of this I did every day. Empathic listening occurred in my days while doing this log when I listen to my roommates talk about if they were physically hurting from a workout and how they hoped it would get better. These conversations occurred typically while icing and we would discuss our pains and give each other the support that we needed at the time. The other times when I caught myself empathic listening was when I was talking to someone who was stressed out about school. It may just be that they are struggling in one class but I listened to them because that is what they needed at the time. Again, from doing this log I learned that empathic listening is crucial and every person needs someone to listen to them empathically. As the listener you do not always have much input but just being there is typical all the person

Before this assignment, private practice counselling was not a future goal of mine, now that this assignment is complete, it is still not a future endeavored I wish to embark on. Throughout this assignment I learnt that I need to watch my body language while conversing with clients. Through watching recordings of our sessions I noticed I tend to talk with my hands too much. Talking with my hands can be distracting to clients. I also noticed that I need to work on asking simpler questions to my clients. Too complex of questions may be overwhelming to clients and difficult for them to answer. Simpler questions enable better conversation flow and allow for better answers from the

When I discovered with the client was going through I realized that the client was in a needy situation where he needed some guidance. I am not a day that I was sorry about what the client was experiencing in and I was going to have the client in any way that I could. I offer the client local referrals to pharmacies and shelter because my client was homeless and suffer from previous history of schizophrenia. Compared to my previous video I noticed lots of improvement. In the first video I was being repetitive I realized that I kept saying “Um”. When interviewing my client I don't recall saying “Um” as I did and the first time. The first time I felt as if I was convincing the client more than trying to help the client resolve the problem as I did in the second video. I remembered to give the client good feedback and express the empathy I felt for the client in terms of the situation he was dealing with. My voice has changed since the first time I interviewed a client, I noticed in the beginning I was speaking low and it was hard for the client t understand what I was saying. From my knowledge of interviewing my client as a social worker I’ve learned to respect client’ and the different

The presenting problem is parental relational problems for a variety of reasons Involved in this is they lost their son/brother 10 months ago. The model approach for this mother and child is person-centered therapy. I have provided both of the clients with congruence by being relatable and transparent through their situation. I have been using unconditional positive regard towards acceptance of their current situation and their feelings without imposing any judgements. I am also demonstrating a tremendous amount of empathy with the clients. One of my strongest skills that I have been told by my fellow professors and colleagues is that I empathize and join well with the client. Therefore, I use this to my advantage and have seen it help in

As I mentioned before, the only thing that I would have fixed would have been the level of “minimal encouragers”. Saying this, its just something that I believe is highly important in the helping field. Just allows us to reconnect throughout the long sessions with our clients. Doing this shows our clients that we acknowledge them, and are interning to what they have to

A demonstration of warmth, genuineness, and empathy will help the new client become motivated to move toward positive change even when there is a gap in formal training. These qualities are projected with words, body language, and actions. For example, warmth can be shown to the new client with a friendly greeting accompanied by a sincere smile, the offering of a chair and a beverage, and a display of sincere interest while listening to the presenting problem (Marini, 2015). It has been said that employers decide within the first two minutes of a job interview whether to hire the candidate. A counselor would do well to regard the initial client meeting as a job interview of sorts and strive to make a good first impression. Skillful interviewing techniques will project empathy as the counselor allows the client to relate his or her past helping experiences and showcase strong qualities (McClam & Woodside, 2012). There should be a genuine effort to see the presenting problem from the client’s viewpoint, which is the essence of empathy. These methods set the client at ease and more inclined to share openly and honestly, which facilitates better recall while he or she relates past experiences. Most importantly, this approach emphasizes that the client has something to offer in the therapeutic

Everyone tends to have their own natural helping skills. With learning the new skill and reflecting on my past experience, I am trying to identify my own helping skills to set a beginning line to guide myself. I find that my natural helping skills are more likely solution-based—pay too much attention on the solution instead of their feeling. Also, this is to forget why I’m trying to help them. To find the solution is not the end. The ultimate goal is to make them feel better. And I shall be aware that sometimes there is no clear positive ending, especially with only one talk.

I felt more clam and better prepared to actively listen to what my client was saying. Unlike the first role-play, I really tried to demonstrate the skills and theories I was most comfortable with. Overall, I think I used a very affective strategy when helping my client. In both sessions I tried to create a warm, nonjudgmental, and safe environment for Morgan to express her feelings. I also used a phenomenological approach by staying in the present with my client and trying not to focus too much on the past. I believe this approach was very affective being that my client did not want to talk about her feelings at first but then opened up and discussed more of them. Looking back on the session I realize that being affective is one of my strengths, and one of my weaknesses is not picking up on valuable information my client is giving. If I could change anything about this session it would be to go back and ask Morgan to explain how her mother affects her anxiety. After stepping away from the session, I think this may be the underlying problem with my client. In order to work towards a solution for this problem, I would have loved to try the empty chair exercise with my client. I believe this would have increased both her’s and my understanding of the problem and how her mother is affecting her

This journal entry will discuss the intake and engagement video with my client Samantha and will be a personal self-assessment of the issues that need work. In addition, the paper will discuss the beginning of the interview and skills and techniques such as empathy, rapport building, listening skills, open and closed-ended questions, and signs of client engagement. The second part of the interview will discuss the focus of the interview and the closure of the interview. Furthermore, when doing a self-assessment, it is important to do a self-reflection of what was alright and what mistakes were made when doing the interview so corrections can be made in basic and advanced interviewing skills and techniques for the future when helping

We are encouraged to be creative in finding new models and methods of meeting the needs of our clients. We must also be critical thinkers in evaluating our efforts. Good communication is essential for developing and maintaining positive relationships. We must be diligent to develop therapeutic working relationships with our clients, and we should listen in order to identify how best to serve them. Technology can make communication quick and easy, but we must exercise caution. We must always remember the importance of relationships - that human touch and interaction are mechanisms for

The power of empathetic listening builds a foundation of trust and respect between the speaker and the listener, and supports the speaker to surface emotions whilst building a cooperative team environment (Salem, 2003). Empathetic listening promotes a safe environment where the speaker can comfortably share information assisting both the speaker and listener to communicate and feel for emotion in words and expressions (Salem, 2003). Among the many other benefits, empathetic listening builds an unspoken connection between the speaker and listener which is apparent in Dr Amano’s experience as a PhD student during his rotation in haematology/ oncology. Dr Amano discusses how he developed a close relationship with four of his terminally ill patients who had just been diagnosed with metastatic cancer. Knowing that the prognosis of his patients was poor, and the limited benefit of medical invention, he had to find another way to support his patients, and turned to the practice of empathetic listening. Dr Amano would sit with his patients every morning and afternoon allowing his patients time to talk, asking them questions about their life waiting patiently for their response. When Dr Amano's patients were discharged from hospital, each one of them thanked Dr Amano with their deepest appreciation for everything he had done for them. As a medical student, Dr Amano knew that all he had done