Answer To: APPLIED COUNSELLING 1 Assessment 3: Reflective Journal (APA 7th Edition) In text references and...
Sayani answered on Aug 08 2021
Running Head: ASSESSMENT 3: REFLECTIVE JOURNAL 1
ASSESSMENT 3: REFLECTIVE JOURNAL 11
APPLIED COUNSELLING 1
ASSESSMENT 3: REFLECTIVE JOURNAL
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 3
2. Core Skills in Helping Relationship 3
3. Attending Behaviour 4
4. Reflective Listening Skill 5
5. Open and Closed Question: Reframing and Summarising 6
6. Tracking Client’s Concern 7
7. Normalising and Challenging 7
8. Congruence and Facilitating Option 8
9. Report Writing 9
10. Integration of Skills 10
11. Conclusion 10
12. References 12
1. Introduction
Throughout the module and journal sessions, I have acknowledged as well as developed several skills in the context of counselling. I also gathered several knowledge and information about counselling. Counselling is a learning-oriented process, which occurs usually in an interactive relationship, with a major goal to help the individual in learning more about the self and to use such understanding while leading their life in an effective manner.
The main motto of this counselling procedure is to talk about and work through the personal problem of the client with the counsellor. The counsellor on the other hand help to address the problem in a positive way by helping to clarify the issues, explore options, develop strategies and finally increase self-awareness. Through this reflective paper, I will express my opinion, concern and reflection on the various skills, which play a crucial role in counselling procedures.
As stated by Elliott et al. (2018) and as I realised throughout this entire learning session that, communication skill along with listening, empathy, genuineness, unconditional positive regards, interpretation, concreteness, open questions and many more should be the basic counselling skills of a counsellor to handle a client suffering from mental and psychological pain and trauma.
2. Core Skills in Helping Relationship
After acknowledging about the concept of helping relationship, I came to understand that it is the partnership of the counsellor and the client working together in order to solve the client’s problem by activating client’s assets, utilising the environmental resources and developing the client’s skills in order to decrease the client’s problem and increase their coping skills. As stated by Kolehmainen (2018), the core skills needed in this regard is therefore, the listening skills, communication skills, understanding capacity, empathetic nature, questioning and paraphrasing and provide positive motivation continuously.
Whenever a client enters the room of the counsellor therapist, the client usually expect that they should be treated differently and the therapist should understand every word of their client. In order to understand the depth of the problems of the client the professional therapist utilises the listening skills and avoid any kind of distraction in this regard. As mentioned by Grant and Green (2018), giving attention to the client by actively listening and allowing the client to narrate his or her own problems and stories is the best procedure in this context.
As per the article by Bayliss-Conway et al. (2020), clarity, concreteness, genuineness, impartiality and empathy should be there within a counsellor. I often noticed that every therapist tries to grab the attention of their clients and build a strong and healthy relationship with them. In this way, they develop a client-centred therapeutic relationship condition with authenticity and influence their clients to express safely whatever problems they are dealing with.
3. Attending Behaviour
Attending behaviour is yet another counselling micro skill usually applied by the counsellor in order to grab the attention of the clients so that the client will not feel neglected and thinks that the counsellor is paying a great interest in what the client says and shows. Through this attending behaviour, the counsellor can enhance the motivation, enthusiasm and positivity within their clients.
As stated by Hewitt et al. (2018), attending behaviour should be found not only in the counsellor therapists but also should be there in the parents, teachers, nurses and other guardians or well-wisher towards their children and mentally and psychologically ill people so that these people will not feel neglected and depressed. I have identified that there are near about four types of attending behaviour, among which three are non-verbal and one is verbal component.
They are visual eye contact, vocal, verbal tracking and body language. Empathy in this regard is essential for interpersonal helping and is considered a key change process in psychotherapy. As stated by Clark et al. (2019), the emotive components of the empathy are the ability to subjectively perceive others emotion. Therefore, through empathy the counsellor can show their attending behaviour towards their clients and help them to express their grief, sorrows and all forms of emotion underlying within them (Elliott et al., 2018).
For example, whenever we feel anxious before giving to any kind of presentation, or feel depressed and frustrated after breakup of relationship, applying the concept of empathy during those situations would be one of the best options for the counsellor. Advanced empathy on the other hand is a tentative hypothesis about the client’s experience based on the evidence from the client. As stated by Auyeung and Alden (2020), through advance empathy, the counsellor can distribute the belief and extraordinary experiences among their clients. Therefore, communicating empathetically is a foundational skill for counselling as well as psychotherapy and it fosters and maintains the relationship generally.
4. Reflective Listening Skill
As per the knowledge gained about the reflecting procedure, I felt that it is primarily the process of paraphrasing and restating both the feelings and words of the speaker. As stated by Braun and Clarke (2019), through reflective procedure, the counsellors try to...