Learning Outcome 1- Understand what is meant by Counselling 1.1 The term counselling facilitates personal and interpersonal functioning across the lifespan with the main focus on emotional, vocational, social, educational, health related and developmental concerns this encompasses a broad range of practices that help people to improve their well being, alleviate stress and maladjustment, reslove crisis and increases their ability to live more fully functioning lives. Counselling is unique in its attention to both normal developmental issues as well as the problems associated with physical, emotional and mental disorders. The BACP states that “counselling takes place when a counsellor see a client in a private and confidential …show more content…
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. PCT can be helpful for a wide range of issues i.e. depression, eating disorders, bereavement and abuse to name but a few. It helps the client not only look at the problems they are experiencing but perhaps more importantly what has led them to the point they are at now. For example a client whose presenting issue is drug abuse may have turned to drugs in a desperate attempt to block out issues from their past which they struggle to cope with, perhaps child abuse. As a person centred counsellor my aims are to respect my client's human rights and dignity, alleviate their personal distress and suffering and help them foster a
As a counselor, I need to accept my client without being judgmental during a therapy session. I understand we have different values and we might not agree with each other and I should not make my client feel uncomfortable. I will not use my own personal values towards my clients. I will make sure to incorporate empathy because the client needs to feel that they are being understood and trust. Empathy helps build a strong relationship and helps clients feel comfortable and trust the counselor; I will make sure that I treat my clients with dignity and respect. Professional Identity can also be incorporated in my counseling relationship because I will make sure I used the code of ethics with my clients and stay professional at all times. I will make sure I provide a good supported treatment for my client. I will use my best practice to help my client achieve their
Counselling in general refers to the means by which one person (the counsellor) helps another person (counselee). It involves purposeful conversation and seeks to identify a practical solution(s) to the problem(s) identified. Some of the common problems counsellors encounter includes personality problems, anger issues, depression, sexual assault and relationship difficulties.
Counseling is a safe, accepting, and comfortable way for you, the client, to share personal problems and stories. Counseling can help with self-awareness, self-acceptance, and growth for the client. Clients come to therapy because they want change, solve a problem, or bring a healthier balance to life. Clients should be aware that despite the fact that counseling can be fun
My personal counseling philiosphy leads with kindness and the willingness to help an individual's experience by dealing with the issues together. My objective in counseling is to help people and see happy, healthy individuals living a fulfilling life. I believe that as a counselor, encouragement is the most important. A counselor must listen to a client with understanding and help direct the individual toward the right path but not solve their problem. A counselor’s role is to help the client find a goal and work on it together.
The problems of the client can be multiple, overlapping and complex or relatively simple and severely impair their ability to function well in the world. I always welling to help and to adopted the positive psychology in the therapeutic room, and bring positive energy into the room. My job to help monitor, supervise and support positive behavioral change and I understand this work its not always “warm and fuzzy” I try always to help the client to get quality life for him/her. I always told my client that they are brave to coming to counselling and said that I accepted them as there are without judge them help them to recognize their own strengths that have gone unsupported. When I worked with the client I can see myself as counselor as working on a ‘house’, help my client to make the ‘house’ in which he/she lives a more fit place in which to live, if for example the house have three levels every levels seeks to make that level more comfortable or move up to the next level, level one will be as residing. For example the ground floor will be the level of asking questions of life meaning (by TA will be the Child ego state) and the top floor will be the self-realization (the Adult ego state) and in the middle level will be the process of combination integrated between the Child
As counselling is now seen as a normal process, changes in the way counsellors are taught is changing. Research once was about various types of counselling therapy, where the counsellor was the experts, to a more collaborative approach of an interaction between certain types of therapies and listening to the client who is a partner in the process of counselling (Horvath 2005).
Counselling takes place when a counsellor sees a client in a private and confidential setting to explore a difficulty a client is having, distress they may be experiencing or perhaps their dissatisfaction with life, or loss of a sense of direction and purpose. It is always at the request of the client as no one can properly be 'sent' for counselling.’(Counselling central) By listening the counsellor can begin to perceive the difficulties from the client's point of view and can help them to see things more clearly, possibly from a different perspective. Counselling is a way of enabling choice or change
You will be expected to spend a good deal of your study time reading about the theory and practice of counselling and related topics. A recommended reading list for the module follows. It contains key texts from which you should be able to gain much of the information that you will need and further reading that has been selected to build upon the reading in the key texts. Respected authorities in their field write the books recommended and the bibliographies often included in their work, provide further areas for study.
The concept of counselling itself is split into different editions better-known as the person centred therapy, psychodynamic and cognitive approach. For the counselling therapies there are a range of therapies that can be offered to an individual including all the followings:
In the counseling world there is no “one size fits all approach to the therapeutic process (Whiston, S. C. 2013). Therefore, counselors must be able to properly, effectively, accurately in order to make sure they understand the client’s presenting problem or problems to the best of their knowledge. Failing to properly assess and understand the client’s presenting problem can negatively affect the counseling process (Whiston, S. C. 2013). Clients are more likely to trust and therefore, open up to counselor whom they view as competent as well being able to demonstrate to the client that they understand their problem and care about them (Whiston, S. C. 2013). Therefore, it is very important that counselor have the skills and knowledge to
This essay will reflect on counselling, and include what I think that is, and how it differs from other forms of helping. I will analyse and compare the different types of counselling, giving specific examples of how they vary from each other. This essay will also evaluate some of my personal experiences of having professional counselling which will enable the reader to gain an authentic perspective from the clients viewpoint.
Giving a clear definition of psychotherapy and counselling is arduous, as there’s a little insufficient agreement on the definition and on whether there’s any variation between the two terms. Psychotherapy and counselling are interplay between a therapists /counsellor and clients/patients. The main role of the counsellor is to aid the client in solving problems that may have aspects that are mainly associated to disorder of thinking, emotional suffering or the problems of the act (Corey, 2009, p. 111). Most importantly, the therapist/ counselor’s way to aiding ought to be legally and ethically approved.
Starting this assignment I was nervous because I wasn’t sure what my personal philosophy was. It took hours of self reflection for be to discover my counseling philosophy is fairly simple. It’s keeping it real. What does keeping it real mean? To me this means being honest with who I am as a person, translating it into my counseling skills, and most importantly project honesty to my future client’s in an effective manner. While it is important to keep it real with the client, it is important to do it in an empathetic and professional way. There is such thing as keeping it too real, which can lead to a bad counseling relationship, possibly ending in a referral to a new counselor.
Counselling therapy or as known as psychotherapy and counselling are the interactions between a therapist or counsellor and one or more clients (Sharf, 2012). The goal of psychotherapy and counselling is that to help client with problems that may have aspects that are connected to disorder of thinking, emotional or behavior. Counselling theory plays an important roles in guiding counsellor in helping and provides a framework of understanding and practice that guides the counsellor or therapist in their attempts to help clients (Truscott, 2010). Counsellor may use their knowledge of therapy to help clients improve their functioning in their daily life. According to Corsini (2008), there has been increase the number of theories that counsellor have developed to help people, now there may be a total more than 400 therapies. However, different types of therapies will work differently for different
Counselling is a form of conversational therapy to help individuals with psychosocial difficulties that are unlikely to benefit from prescribed medication (Changing opinion on value of counselling, 2001). Counselling occurs between a trained professional known as a counsellor and an individual in distress, which is the client (Sibbald B et al, 1996). Counselling is a method of identifying practical solutions to assist to help resolve an individual’s problem. During the counselling session, the client speaks about his or her inner emotions, thoughts and feelings (Corey G, 1995). Counsellors play various roles and use various styles, but what they have in common is an intention to let the client speak more, while they speak less and listen more. Thereby, a counsellor's first task is to determine what the issues are for the client and how the client tends to view them (Lord W, 1993). The client may not be in an agreement with the current situation they are in to see what the issue actually is.