Counseling Video Analysis

Introduction

Interviewing and conducting counseling sessions are a very important skill to have when we are working with people who struggle with addiction problems. Each approach of interviewing is different and have different techniques, which makes it difficult some times. Watching other people conduct counseling sessions is a great tool to use, in order to see which techniques work as well as which ones do not work as well. For this assignment I will be watching three different videos, that will give me more insight in what work for counseling sessions.

Video #1- Motivational Interviewing- The good The first video that I watched for the counseling critiques was the good version of motivational interviewing. The approach that was used

At the end of the video the client was upset, uncomfortable and felt like she was being attacked. At the end of a counseling session, we hope that clients come out feeling at ease or at least feeling better. She did not really gain any information that will help her solve the drinking problem that she has or any way to make improvements. However, the client did not feel better, but felt worse and that is why I believe that this counseling video was ineffective. The video was very short and did not really have a beginning, middle or an end. The counseling just sat down quickly introduced himself and said that the doctor referring her to the counselor said she has a drinking problem, that was the beginning of the counseling. The middle of the counseling sessions was the counselor telling her that she was drinking to much and said that she had to stop drinking. The end of the counseling session was that he said that if she finds it hard to stop drinking which he thought she would that she could talk to a therapist that works in the same

Narrative therapy looks at the impact of the problem on the family or individual, rather than the problem stemming from the family (Aish). Narrative therapy also looks at that the individual who suffers from a problem is separate from the problem itself. The goal of narrative therapy is to change the effects of the problem rather than changing the person (Morgan). Narrative therapy also includes externalizing the problem that was shown in the YouTube video (Aish). Externalizing the problem which basically means that the problem is the problem rather than the individual or family being the problem (Morgan). During narrative therapy sessions the counselor will ask the clients to give their problem a name in order to make the client feel like the problem is actually the problem