I feel very fortunate in interviewing this Counselor Educator for I believe he has faced many challenges that have been concerning me. One concern in particular, is that as being a new CES graduate would necessitate my relocation to a region of the United States that I would find undesirable. I prefer the western United States, where I feel the outdoor culture and wilderness accessibility fits me well. Due to this interview, I began to feel that counselor education is more flexible and can be shaped to fit my needs and desires; that accepting an instructor position in a region which better suits me may not be sabotaging my career, opposed to seeking a tenure position in an area of the country where I am strongly averse to living. With this perspective, I now feel there exists the possibility of shaping my career in a way that I need not sacrifice what I find personally nurturing and desirable to pursue the golden ideal of a tenured track position.
I believe his observations are good to have awareness around. Presently, in my doctoral program I feel that much is left to my initiative, which allows for growth and development, and I feel very well
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supported. The fact that he was not well supported in his new roles helps me to be better prepared for this future possibility as a new faculty member. With this knowledge I can be ready to look for support and begin advocating for myself early without the assumption that a more experienced faculty member would come to me with mentorship or support. Additionally, this is an area which I could inquire to during the interview process and may be a factor that would contribute to my decision making in accepting one position over another. This area of the interview gave rise to thoughts of my own challenges when it comes to organization. I have a tendency to become over-whelmed when I have too many unaddressed tasks ahead of me. I learned greater organizational skills while completing my masters degree, however, I often wonder if my organizations skills are adequate for a doctoral program. I assume I will only become better skilled with organization a progress through the doctoral program, however, his idea of strict discipline around activities that I value seems of particular importance. How to accomplish this is not readily apparent to me at the present, but I feel this is something that I may develop with time if I prioritize it. I recognize the value of having structured times for writing, regardless of motivation level, in the completion of my dissertation. I know this will be challenging for me due to fact that I view myself as a creative writer and as such I feel disheartened when writing begins feeling less inspired and more of a chore. I believe his idea of developing “vision” of the future will aid me in not feeling over-whelmed. From this viewpoint, tasks will seem less as a mounting burden and more like a step-by-step advance towards what I want for myself in the future. With this view I feel that I will be better able to sustain myself on a daily basis. The area of communication within relationships is a definite growing edge for me.
I am a quiet, shy person who is hyper-conscious of what I say and how I am perceived, which often leads me to withhold my thoughts. This sparsity of expression, along with my closed demeanor, has frequently caused my intentions and attitude to be mistaken as negative. Given this, I have concerns for future working relationships. I must confess that I have not experienced this in my CES doctoral program. I have explored this with my cohort members, receiving only positive feedback. Additionally, feedback I have received from my professors have not indicated that I am being misperceived. Considering this, I am encouraged for future working relationships, however, I will maintain this awareness and continue to work on this area of
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I believe that his ideas have a great meaning nowadays as we move towards a more materialistic world. I strongly share his opinion that sometimes we should search for solitude and nature to find the answers to our questions. Society is full of flaws and problems but to make it better we have to think more about where we came from, we should think about nature and wildness.
I look forward to attending graduate school for school counseling. Attending the University of North Carolina will allow me the opportunity to develop the skills necessary to aid students facing a variety of difficult situations. I am ready to take the next step in my career as a school counselor.
HS 43 Term Paper 4 Core functions of a Substance Abuse Counselor By Roslyn Smith Introduction This paper will discuss the following 4 Core Functions of a Counselor: Case Management, Client Education, Crisis Intervention, Referral and their primary purposes. Discussion Case Management According to IC & RC, Case Management is defined as, “activities intended to bring services, agencies, resources, or people together within a planned framework of action toward the achievement of established goals.
A career that I have been interested for a very long time is in Psychology, which is to be a Counseling Psychologist. To be a Counseling Psychologist research is needed to receive a clear understanding of this specific career. For example, it is valuable to know what are the job requirements/duties, being paid hourly or salary, and if it is required to relocate. However, it is very important for me to know does it fit my personality, the exact year of graduation, what schools will I attend, how long it would take to complete my education and how much will my education cost. These are all-important material to be familiar with and are a journey that I am ready to take and experience.
my comments. Similarly, this gentle demeanor helps my clients feel as if they are in safeenvironment in which they can freely speak their mind. Dr. McKee also commented on myvoice and said that it will be helpful to me later on and will allow me to perturb the client whilestill maintaining a non-threatening position.In addition to using the L.U.V technique, having an attentive body language, and a softvoice, I believe I also did well with my use of paralinguistic utterances. To encourage my clientto continue telling her story, I made a
My professional attitude is similar. I find that I try to communicate well with others and express my interest through body language such as smiling, eye contact, nodding of my head, etc. I do to show that I can be personable and hope to build good relationships on that. Based on my scores, I also show higher scores for Conventional, Dependant, and/or Avoidance. This is true in the sense that sometimes, if I find myself too comfortable in a situation; I tend to become withdrawn in order to protect my well being. I don’t want people to take advantage of me, so I become distant after a certain point. This does cause conflict for me both at work and in my personal affairs.
Pope, M. (2000, Mar). A brief history of career counseling in the United States. The Career
In order to be an effective counselor, one must remember to keep the client(s) in mind. The goal is to assist the client(s) in living the best life possible for that particular person or persons. With that being said, one cannot forget that they have their own set of morals, values, ideas, and the like. Social workers have to keep in mind that there will be cases that are complex and a favorable outcome may not be possible. In the instance that I am confronted with an issue that conflicts with my religious beliefs, I plan on assisting the client as much as possible by adhering the National Association of Social Work Code of Ethics, NASW standards for the Practice of Clinical Social Work, and discussing my concerns with my supervisor while
Through the completion of my graduate program in Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment, I have gained an immense amount of knowledge and a plethora of skills which I have used and found valuable in my seventh grade English classroom. My outlook on student learning and my empathy towards students has also been positively affected by the program. These learning opportunities have led me to become a better educator both inside and outside of the classroom.
The counseling session began with the introductions where I introduced myself as the counselor and later introduced my client. This stage is important in any counseling session since it is the time of exploration and focusing according to Gerard Egan as quoted by Wright (1998) in his essay on couselling skills. It is in this session that I was able to establish rapport and trust with my client in order to come up with a working and fruitful relationship with him. During this stage I made use of skills like questioning, where I would pose a question directly to my client, sometimes I would choose to just listen to what the client wanted to speak out while in some instances I would be forced to paraphrase the question if I felt the client did not understand the question I had asked previously. There were also other times when I would reflect through silence. During such a period, I got time to study the client and the information he had given. This being a difficult area, since some clients may not be able to volunteer information to you as the counselor, I decided to assure the client of confidentiality of any information he was willing to share with me with a few exceptions which I also told him about. Being open to him about the only times the information may not be confidential was part of my building rapport and establishing trust with him. I therefore, decided to ask the client what information he wanted to share with me and lucky enough he was ready to speak to me about different issues that he was going through.
The career services professional supports the educational mission of a college by assisting students to develop, evaluate, and pursue career aspirations with the goal of securing employment. Career services professionals accomplish these goals with a range of programs, counseling and services designed to help students make the connection between the academic environment and the workplace.
The first part of my peer mentor plan focused on a presentation regarding how to study for midterms. The idea was that this presentation would be a simple discussion with the use of a visual aid. The presentation was intended to provide first-year students with the tools needed to improve academic success. Me and my instructor Nick decided not to take time out of class for this particular project. The project didn't come together quite the way I had hoped, and it turned out to be longer than I had anticipated.
Throughout this class I learned not only a great deal about the counseling setting but, also learned more about myself as I strive to become a counselor. Reflecting back to my first interview I felt extremely uncomfortable. However, this was not due to my partner. I felt out place because I really did not know what to expect and how to ask the questions that I was wanting to ask. Then going back to the day we had done our second interview I was way more relaxed.
On Tuesday, September first I met with my academic advisor, Dr. Ana Londono for the first time. We met in her office on the first floor of Young Hall. She informed me that it was only her third week as an advisor at Lindenwold University. I was a bit nervous after hearing that because my major is Pre-Nursing and I had a lot of questions to ask. One of my main reason of making an appointment with my advisor was to ask when I would be able to apply for nursing school. I took a lot of college credit classes in high school. So Dr. Londono and I went over my high school transcript and figured out what classes I had already taken. Lindenwood has a great connection with Goldfarb School of Nursing. On the Lindenwold website they provide a list of required
One aspect I found striking was the role of advice giving in counseling. Prior to this class, I knew that counselors did not typically give opinions or advice to lead a client in a certain direction. What I did not know was the entire reasoning behind this. A counselor might avoid giving advice so that a client learns to make his/her own decisions, does not become dependent on the counselor, and to ensure that a client will not later blame the counselor if the counselor’s advice did not turn out well. In this context, I have a better appreciation and understanding of why therapists refrain from telling the client what to do.