Use of Counselling Skills in Helping Work

ETHICAL FRAMEWORK, LIMITS OF PROFICIENCY AND THE LIMITATIONS ON COUNSELLORS COMPARED TO OTHER PROFESSIONS THAT USE COUNSELLING SKILLS.

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.

When planning this essay I assumed that I would just produce a narrative of the primary skills and how they can enhance any counselling relationship but after some thought I felt that for the sake of congruence, ‘a core condition’, along side that narrative I would relate it to my own learning experience.

Person-centered therapy is very much embodied in the work of Carl Rogers. He is mainly responsible for the development of person-centered therapy. His focus on the importance of the client-counselor relationship has had an influence on both theorists and practitioners. The following chart describes the personal and professional development of Carl Rogers. As he changed and developed, so did person-centered therapy.

Counselling is a process of assisting individuals go through worries and difficulties, (Geldard and Geldard 2012). Consequently, many people strive for counselling help when they cannot handle issues or sometimes when they require expert support to provide

This essay will explore and identify the complex, yet beneficial nature of counselling while attempting to define the role of the counsellor. As well as, endeavouring to differentiate between professional counselling and informal helping. Finally, this paper will discuss the importance of counsellors being mindful of their own self-awareness, beliefs and values.

Psychologist Carl Rogers was the founder of person-centered counseling. He had a humanistic approach that characterized people as being able to be autonomous and solve their own problems. Individuals are able to make positive changes and strengths to self-actualization. Rogers created person-centered counseling where the relationship is created with warmth and responsiveness

Person-centered therapy has several core concepts. Carl Rogers when developing this form of therapy stated that there are six conditions that must be met in order for

Developed by Carl Rogers in 194?, Person Centred Therapy focuses on the empowerment and development of the client through support and accountability (3). The client is the agent of change and healing (2), so it is not the techniques, knowledge or theories attained by the therapist that matters most, but their belief in the inner resources of the client and their way of being (2). Rogers argued, and then later proved, that each individual has the ability

Counsellor would encounter a wide range of clients in the course of their profession and sometimes other than the basic counselling skills, advance counselling skills would be required to better bring out the conflicting emotions into the surface, providing clarity, opportunity for discussion and to elicit the strengths from the clients.

I feel that counselling is an important field in today’s world. This is because people,

The first of which are issues that are personal to me, I realise that there are experiences in my past that may hinder me as a counsellor the most important of which is my inability to maintain eye contact with another person which wasn’t an issue in the past years but in the counselling session might convey a very negative impression to the client for they may interpret it as my disinterest. This issue has prompted me to go to personal therapy and also has increased the relevance and importance of personal therapy in my eyes. Through this experience I have also realised how unresolved issues in the past can impact the counselling process with or without you being aware about them. There are many areas that I need to work on expect this and the major among them is my competence as a counsellor, I still need to develop various professional skills that I will be required to employ in the counselling session and that is something I believe I will gain from my course. The most important thing that believe I need to work on are my own beliefs about counselling, for a long time I didn’t realise that despite being trained for becoming a counsellor I never realised that even to me counselling seemed appropriate as the last option, a choice you make when all else fails and also that with time things will eventually get better and you don’t need therapy to work through it. Both of these beliefs seem wrong to be now that I have gained more objective knowledge of counselling. Firstly, to keep counselling as a last resort the person is embracing a very likely possibility that things would get worse then on rather than better and if proper therapy is undertaken at the very beginning of a problem it will improve things for the individual for definite and may also be more effective and efficient in comparison to if you let it blow to proportion that may severely

Counseling covers a wide range of techniques and approaches, each needing its own skill set. There are some basic skills in addition to any life experiences, if any, and personal attributes needed to be good at any specialty in this field. Also very important is that the counselor continues in the learning process throughout their career, developing professionally will help the counselor to never stop learning.

Great. I am currently studying my Diploma in Counselling. This session is for training purposes, therefore, my trainer and an external moderator may have access to the recording of our session. This might influence the information you feel free to share with me today. The purpose of the recording is to evaluate me and how I am working with you, and not what you are discussing with me.

Self-discipline tends to be the most effective method of discipline in the work place. However some people feel they need external discipline in order to reach the highest level of performance they can achieve in the work place. Without counseling many people will remain unaware of their wrong doings. A lot of times, employees aren’t productive enough because of the personal issues faced by them. For any organization to work at its best, its employees need to efficient in the job performance. In a situation, where employees fail to be productive as a result of personal issues, counselling for effective discipline is a good tool to improve their performance. In this paper, the notion of counselling for effective work performance as a way