One skill in particular that will be used the most will most defiantly be the skill of empathy. In lecture, empathy is described as being able to feel and understand what others feel. The mentorship from Pinerest will require me to further improve the competencies of counseling – and the main one is empathetic relationships. While I won’t have direct interactions with clients, I will help my mentor work on the clients’ paperwork. Or even in the Peace Corps., I would have to have empathetic relationships with the kids that I am helping and their given situations. I find that I tend to have a strong sense of empathy, however, there is always room to grow! I believe that over the next few years, I will have ample time to improve on this skill. …show more content…
I also find that I am rather goal oriented as well. The point of counseling is to help someone start/stop something that they feel is big and influencing in their lives. Even though what they come in with might not be the exact thing that needs to be worked on. In the line of picking an approach that I find the most appealing, I found transactional analysis to be extremely interesting. With the personality and counseling approach tied into one, it really blew my mind and was something that I could see myself looking into more deeply in the future. However, based on the fact that it was only briefly discussed, I don’t know enough about the set up and how it works in an actual session to completely know if it’ll work for me. I believe that I most identify with person-centered approach to counseling. I like the idea of just being able to make everyone feel better with a few simple words – but that’s not how it works. There are things that happen to people that can’t be easily fixed. The reason I am drawn to a person-centered approach is because instead of trying to make everything seem better – the counselor tries to get the client to get a more appropriate representation of themselves in the world they are in. I believe that this style of counseling would fit really well with a transactional analysis. From my own background and stand point, I believe that this will benefit myself – in the sense that I won’t burn myself out from trying to fix my clients problems. Instead, I would help them to understand where they stand in their world so that they can work on solving the situation on their own (with only minor
...ersatile and positive orientated framework. By looking at the person and their story, I assert that a comprehensive view of the client can be reached. The empowerment and positive nature of the solution-focused modality undoubtedly generates results. However, I do no think these positive results could be reach without some traditional base as appoint of reference. While this will serve as my main counseling format, I am aware that I will need to be versed with other counseling and testing techniques.
Miguel resides with his mother, father and grandmother. He is a 16 year-old male Latina of Mexican ethnicity. His parents are legal immigrants from Mexico but met and eventually, got married after they arrived in the United States. His mother is pregnant, which means that Miguel will soon have a sister. Miguel has been struggling academically even though he loves literature and writing. At home Miguel’s family speak Spanish but Miguel is fluent in both English and Spanish. He has been having challenges with his identity, which is the reason he identifies himself as “Chicano-American and not Latina.
These skills help her during her life at home as well. She believes that working in this field has helped her become a better mother to her twelve year old son, and a better wife to her husband. She has become a great listener and is even able to listen to the things that aren’t always said. Because she deals with so many different kinds of people, she is also able to not only deal with the issues college students deal with but is able to transition to understand the issues her son in middle school
My theoretical orientation can best be described as a mixture of Person-centered therapy and feminist therapy. Where person-centered therapy is all about being aware of oneself and feminist therapy encourages personal empowerment. Those two together create a great theme of evolving to become something greater in life. I believe that human behavior is a result of feeling like you, have a sense of belonging in the world. Similar to what Maslow’s hierarchy, people need to feel a sense of love in order to be happy and confident in one’s self. Once they are content with themselves as result, they will project that same love towards others. When considering my approach, I want clients to be authentic and confident in who they are. The individual
1. Listening skills, such as listening to the client and understanding client needs and wants more carefully and responsively. Acknowledging the feelings they are expressing. Compassionately allowing them to express their feelings. Listening and reflecting back on what I hear allows me to identify client’s thoughts. Listening in the field of social work is crucial in understanding client’s situation. Listening responsibly lets the client know you care about them.
Main one is actively listening to the clients. Making sure that you have the full attention of whoever is speaking, asking an occasional question when appropriate, and making sure to understand the points being made (O*NET). Being an active listener helps people cope with whatever challenges they are facing in their lives. You also have to be a good persuader. Along with helping people you also have to persuade them to change their minds or behaviors (O*NET). That is a really great skill to have especially with dealing with those that have an addiction. I believe another great skill to have, and one I know that I need to work on, is time-management. Not only do you have to deal with clients, but also you have some administrative responsibilities. They must commendably manage their time to provide acceptable service to all of their clients (OOH). Now, it is time to move onto the education part of a social
These are the skills and competencies I have learned through my studies at Walden University. Kaslow, Grus, Campbell, & Fouad, et al. (2009) stated professionalism comes from my respect for those who need help. Integrity can be built with confidence in the therapist. Attitudes are charitable, polite, caring emotions toward others that fuel my motivation toward helping. This concern welfare of others comes from my religious and personal experiences as a child and young adult.
Angela was open and responsive throughout the counseling session. Individual answered questions asked by the clinician. Ind stated she was feeling really fine and the reason is that "wedding bells are ringing" for her. Ind. disclosed that last week, Lee and her had a conversation with her mom to this end. Angela explained that as soon they verify this step is not going to interfere with her disability approval, they are going to set a date for their weeding. Ind shared that Lee already has an annuitant and the SS benefit too. Ind stated that Lee asked her not to say to anyone that she will have the disability benefit, specially to her sisters because they will ask her for money. Ind was worried because she disclosed Lee's thinking to the Clinician.
I am proud of my attention to detail and organizational skills and because of my experiences with employers, I have been able to develop and sharpen the skills of what a successful Psychologist in Human services role is. These includes but not limited to listening skills, social and communication skills, boundary setting and critical thinking. I love working with a wide variety of people and am a
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 counseling approach I most identify with is Cognitive Therapy (CT) by Aaron Beck. It concentrates on the part a person’s thought process has in dysfunction and intervention. I agree with Albert Ellis 's Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT) and some aspects of the existential approach to counseling, but CT is my choice therapy. One of the primary beliefs in cognitive therapy is that a person 's perspective can influence emotional and behavioral reactions. I believe that if a person is able to reevaluate attitude and beliefs about a situation, the person can improve wellbeing. The person 's wellbeing can improve by altering the reactions he or she has to the situation and learning more
Going over my paper everything made perfect sense and I can still relate/agree with everything I said. After reading my case conceptualization I feel like I have a solid foundation that contributes to how I view my clients and how I choose to move forward with them. While I do like Person Centered Theory I have learned to be flexible and incorporate other theories into my work with clients. Being flexible as a counselor, I think is one of the keys to success. As a counselor I must always do what is in the best interest of the client regardless if I prefer one approach over another. My client’s well-being is my responsibility as a counselor and I have to do the best I can to assure their well-being. Therefore, I have learned to apply other theories into my work as a counselor as
As mentioned, the therapist’s role is to be a mirror to the client, reflecting and restating what the client has said, and slightly spinning their interventions to dig deeper into what the client is really saying. In this sense, person-centered therapy meshes most with my personality traits as I often play a supportive role with the significant others in my life. For me, it’s comfortable to be the emotional safety-net that others need. In my opinion, in order for people to learn from their mistakes and to change their behavior, they themselves have to come to the realization that a change is needed without someone forcing this realization upon them. By reflecting feelings and restating information, clients are led to this realization by thinking about the ways in which their thoughts and feelings are expressed out
Although I appreciate the emphasis on relationships, and the here and now, it is in my opinion that this model of therapy would not successfully aid clients who struggle with catastrophic situations that occurred early in their lives. Regardless, I believe that focusing on goal-driven therapy would likely be successful for the majority of clientele. Therefore, I believe that there are certain aspects of this theory of counseling that would be beneficial to employ in my own counseling theory, nevertheless, I would unlikely adhere entirely to reality therapy/choice therapy for my personal counseling theory
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.