behaviors that the client may be unaware, or aware, that may be hindering communication between the counsellor and client and creating barriers.
A third mechanism in enhancing effective interpersonal communication and addressing barriers is self-reflection. By using self-reflection, a counsellor can be able to examine their own values and beliefs that they may recognize as hindering the counselling relationship and creating barriers to effective communication.
7. What are three factors that may work against the development of the client?
• Genes and Environment: Environmental factors that may work against the development of the client include physical and intellectual disability (or parents with some form of hereditary disability that has
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Describe how the client's style of absorbing information (including visual, auditory, kinesthetic) is important to the counselling interview.
In the counselling setting, it’s to be noted that the VAK model maintains that every client has a distinct style of absorbing information. They will normally demonstrate one or a blend of the styles, the three styles being visual, auditory and kinesthetic. A dominantly visual learner will absorb and retain information successfully when it is presented in films, pictures, displays, diagrams, lists and charts. Auditory learners process and absorb information by talking to themselves mentally, listening to spoken word, songs, radio, podcasts, verbal instructions, lectures or group discussions. While kinesthetic learners process and absorb information through bodily sensations such as touching, feeling, practical experiences and role playing. Counsellors will find it beneficial to identify what kind of learner the client is and adapt their counselling approach to their client’s respective learning style. This will not only make the client feel supported and empowered but will potentially help increase the rate of the change process within the client. Identifying the client’s style of absorbing information can also be useful when harnessed as a therapeutic approach. When the client is experiencing an overload of a particular sensation or emotion triggered by the discussion or experience of an issue, helping the client to focus on another
233). From this, clients should want to change as well as believe in their capacity for change. For Jim, he can benefit from motivational interviewing since it can be used to help him overcome ambivalence to change. A collaborative, and nonconfrontational relationship are part of motivational interviewing. This is important for the client Jim in order to respect and encourage his self-determination. Motivational interviewing gives clients like Jim the opportunity to discover their own reasons for making change. One of the principles for motivational interviewing is expressing empathy where it gives clients the chance to freely explore their values, perceptions, goals and the implications of their present situation without being judged. The counsellor who is working with Jim can use active listening skills for expressing empathy in order for Jim to feel like he is being heard. The second principle is developing
The counseling session should be centered on the client and their understanding of their world and/or problems not heavily weighted on the counselor interpretation of the client’s situation. The role of the counselor is to examine a problem needs changing and discover options in overcoming their problem. Bringing about change can help change the client’s narrative on their problem in the future and/or on life in the process.
The counselling process is one that may last for as little as one session or for years, it is within the middles stages of the helping relationship that particular counselling skills such as a focusing, challenging and immediacy can be implemented, as well as use of advanced empathy that can be applied due to increased familiarity with a speaker. Many actions may occur within middles stage of the helping relationship such as transitions that occur for a multitude of reasons and the outcome of which can vary based on the attitude of the speaker. Self-awareness remains vital throughout the entire counselling relationship due to the continual influence of empathy in the helping relationship and remaining aware my own motives and values when using advanced empathy and specific counselling skills. Ethics and boundaries are also involved within the counselling process as within a counselling relationship, I as the counsellor, must be careful with the balance or expenditure of power when challenging.
Counseling skills has provided me with a valuable insight into the helping relationship and how it is both created and maintained in order to encourage growth and development in the client. The factors involved within the helping relationship include considering Roger’s core conditions, congruence, unconditional positive regard and empathy as the three main characteristics necessary in a helping relationship. In order to fully incorporate all three of Roger’s core conditions, I as the counselor must be self-aware, as a lack of self-awareness may inhibit truly listening and understanding the client; self-awareness can be enhanced through exercises such as Johari’s window. Counseling skills such as body language and active listening also plays a role within encouraging the client to open up and can help me as the counselor convey empathy.
Keeping a positive and open relationship so that the client feels comfortable sharing their issues with the counselor. If the client is feeling judged they will withhold information and stunt the counseling process.
The counselor accomplishes the above by expressing empathy, developing discrepancies, going along with resistance and supporting self-efficacy. Moreover, the counselor guides the client toward a solution that will lead to permanent posi...
Lastly a strong morally opposition to a client’s behaviors, beliefs, et cetera can result in limited ability to help the client. A counselor may be subconsciously unwilling to help or even openly unwilling to help a client with a particular issue they have taken a stance on. In inability or unwillingness to help a client certainly impacts therapy. It can impact what a client is willing to talk about, the progress that is able to be made, and determines if a client should seek services elsewhere. If a client does not feel their issues are being adequately addresses they will either retreat and give up on addressing them or move on to an alternative solution.
As part of my HNC study, I have been asked to write a reflective account based on a particular incident where I overcame the barriers of communication with a service user. To respect and retain confidentiality as outlined in the data protection act 1998 and within the organisational policy, I will refer to the individual as Mrs X. (Gov.uk, 2016). To assist me in my process of reflection, I will be using Gibbs (1988) Reflective Cycle; this six stage model will help by giving structure to my reflection.
Physically my family shows a readiness to learn in her ability to perform tasks and can meet the cognitive and psychomotor requirements to complete learning tasks. One possible physical barrier that can be identified is energy and comfort tolerance to complete learning needs and participate in meetings. According
The essay then outlines and critically evaluates counselling skills such as body language, silences and reflective communication skills amongst others used during Eric’s third session while highlighting areas of improvement and identifying alternative options. The essay concludes with offering and exploring possible directions for future counselling sessions.
79). After my introduction I asked a closed question “is that OK” (Interview 2015, 0:44) in order to receive a go ahead confirmation. I then preceded with an open question “what brings you here today” (Interview 2015, 0:47) to ascertain Rebecca’s reason/s for attending. Similarly, I asked Rebecca two closed questions and an open question to first demonstrate comprehension by probing for clarification and then to encourage her continuation (Interview 2015, 2:08-2:20). Ivey, Ivey & Zalaquett (2010) suggest that open and closed questions are a fundamental part of the listening skills a counsellor develops, thus a vital aspect of the counselling micro-skills effectiveness. With this in mind, my overall questions were effective, although with practice, my questioning could improve my awareness of the effects of suggestive or directive questions (Ivey, Ivey & Zalaquett 2010, p. 16). For example, I implied that when Rebecca’s other daughter went through a similar ordeal, Rebecca did not faint, thus suggesting or even possibly directing Rebecca to look at a particular aspect of her story or even change direction, instead of paraphrasing to show comprehension, thus supporting and encouraging the flow of her story (Interview 2015, 7:18; Gelard & Gelard
Communication is the process of conveying information to each another using words, actions, or by writing the information down to be read by another person. Communication is something that most people do at some point each day, and is an important part of life especially in a working environment. “The concept of communication is an essential part of every profession, and it is required to foster and maintain healthy relationships”( Jasmine, 2009, para. 1).
In this part of the assignment, I will be reviewing the strengths and weaknesses that were shown when I was using counselling skills on my client. I believe that there were more strengths when I was showing counselling skills compared to the weaknesses that there were.
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.
This course opened my eyes to the importance of dialogue in ways that I had not previously considered. I did not know in counseling you should only talk 30 percent of the time and that the remaining 70 percent should be the counselee’s time to talk. My typical counseling sessions in the past were about 50/50 dialogue. I thought that the counselee needed my opinion. A majority of my sessions included this amount of dialogue, which I am now understanding was not helpful to those people. Even though several people did have great results due to our sessions, they will looked to me in the future for more answers to various problems. This made the counseling relationship more dependent on my advice rather than them talking out their problem