Therapeutic Relationship With Clients

Good Post! I agree that Monica did a great job with creating her therapeutic rapport with the family members. With her being honest with the family she was getting information from them that help moves the sessions along. I like the way Monica went around asking questions to Michelle and David’s about her mother’s nationality. Yes, Michelle did seem to brighten up when she spoke about her friends and that they remind her of her culture. Michelle wasn’t the problem it seems to me that David the father is the one who had the hang ups with the loss his wife and keeping a distance from his children. I like the way Monica conducted herself in her counseling sessions; she was honest and direct when needed.

The process involved in establishing a counselling relationships includes many factors to ensure that a client feels safe and comfortable with a counsellor to explore his or her feelings with them.

The main concern with all beginning counseling professionals is how to obtain this therapeutic relationship with their clients. This relationship develops through the application and process of empathy, unconditional positive regard, and genuineness with the client.

Everyone must have had a pet before, even if it was as small as a fish or as big as an elephant. We’ve all had that one pet, that we will forever remember. The loving relationship between a dog and a person is so unexplainable but very special in its own way. I’ve had a dog when I was born and it would always be there from my first time to talk to being with me my sophomore year. I had a Chinese Shar-Pei, whose name was Kane. He was the most precious pet to me and not one other pet can replace his 1,000 rolls or the two different colored eyes. Everyone thought he was ugly but he’s beautiful to me. The relationship we had was unique. In this relationship it contained us both knowing what we thought and getting in trouble together. The loving

Although there are many essential aspects to achieving an effective therapeutic relationship, I believe that developing trust was a major and the most displayed skill that Sean used to connect with Will.

Joshua, I like your discussion board. Your discussion board was very interesting. In your discussion board, there is no weakness or suggested alternatives that need to be given. I agree with your decision making with Jean. I agree with your statement that a counselor cannot confront a sin without building therapeutic relationship with their clients. Building a therapeutic relationship with their client is very healthy and it can establish great feedback between the client and the counselor.

Rogers believed the role of the relationship between client and therapist was of great significance in therapeutic practice. He centred his therapeutic approach on six conditions which he deemed as being ‘necessary and sufficient’ for psychological change to occur within a client and if these conditions were met, they were enough to produce change, nothing else was needed. (Rogers 1957)

The key to dealing with our client Ben who has a psychosis condition is to establish a therapeutic relationship. This includes active listening, learning and act on the information has been communicated with Ben about what is important to him. Active listening involves asking appropriate questions, pay attention, paraphrasing, offer appropriate response to his emotions and showing interest in what he is saying.

Conclusively, the video and my job placement help me to understand how strong these children are mentally and physically than I thought. It helped me to understand the children may start showing symptoms of behavior or PTSD after the reunification. This is the main reason that a quick therapeutic alliance from the first meeting is extremely important. However, the challenges that as professional we encounter are; how do we trust someone that I am meeting today? ; Why do you want to help me? Why do you want to help me?; Is my personal life important, I just want to go home?. The questions are common, but the magic of basic psychotherapy and the genuine relations are able to help us to develop quick the therapeutic relation and help the children

You make a great point regarding client’s and being aware of what they bring into the counseling session. Characteristics like socioeconomic background, religion, gender, motivation, and expectation are all qualities clients bring into therapeutic relationship therefore empathy is very important to posses (Illovsky, 2013). As stated previously to facilitate successful change in the counseling process we need to be flexible, posse a variety of counseling characteristic and at times tolerance of negative responses to others (Illovsky, 2013). I had an experience when a client stated some very hurtful slurs toward me and I had to continue to work with her. However, I considered where her thoughts were stemming from, I did not take what she said

The client-centred therapeutic relationship between a client and a therapist is the underlying groundwork of motivational interviewing, in order to increase inducement to pursue client behaviour change and, conversely, client changed goals. Naar-king (2011), demonstrates that by maintaining a person-centred conversational style, the client will build up the courage, confidence and, consequently, commitment to a client preferential self-transition and ambitious strive. This makes it evident that, client-centred counselling will stimulate client’s desire to change unhealthy substance use behaviours. In addition, Miller and Rollnick (2013, pp. 29), suggests that motivational interviewing is “a collaborative, goal-orientated style of communication with a particular attention to the language of

Focus on present and future except for the past in terms of exceptions; not focused on the past in terms of cause of changing the past

It is important within counselling that there be an effective therapeutic relationship between the counsellor and the patient. It is vital for success that the patient feels at ease and therefore it comfortable and willing to talk about their experiences and any potential struggles that they are facing. Within counselling there is a promise of a safe space which is constant throughout the counselling process. This space alone could affect the effectiveness of the relationship as any change in the room could trigger the patient and make them feel uncomfortable.

Like any other human being, counsellors are no different from having their own values and perspective. Despite those differences, I learnt that it is important for me to be able to understand and view my clients’ problem from her point of view. I managed to view the problems from her point of view and it was very different from someone who is not going through what my client had to go through. When I am able to view and understand the entire scenario from my clients’ viewpoint, it is only then I am able to response to my client with confidence and not fearing of misusing any words in response to my client. The ability to view a particular issue addressed by the client from the clients’ point of view is important because after going through this viewpoint, a counsellor will be able to understand the pressure and how the environment has influenced the client’s current

The counselor should respect the client’s boundaries. It is important the counselor only discusses what the client is willing to discuss. The counselor should listen to the client and should use skills such a reflecting, interpret, and clarify the client’s thoughts and feelings. The counselor may bring some things to the client’s attention that he or she may have not been aware of before. The client should commit to the counseling process. The client should make sure that he or she is honest and forthcoming. The client has to be committed to changing and be responsibilities for any decisions that are made (Seligman,