In reading “The Professional Ex- An Alternative for Exiting the Deviant Career by J. David Brown, Brown mentions two different concepts for exiting a deviant lifestyle. One of the concepts encountered in the article is the role exit. Role exit is defined as the process of disengagement from a role that is central to one’s self-identity and the reestablishment of an identity in a new role that takes into account one’s ex-role. Brown extends this definition to include adopting a legitimate career premised upon an identity that embraces one’s deviant history and named it the professional ex. According to Brown’s research the process of becoming a professional ex encompasses four stages, emulating one’s therapist, the call to a counseling
My professional identity is fundamentally grounded on my commitment to social welfare through which I achieve my sense of purpose. Furthermore, I support the humanistic values that uphold the core philosophy of the counseling profession and uniquely distinguish counseling from other helping professions. Specifically, I endorse the wellness model wherein optimal health is achieved via holistic integration of mind, body and spirit (CITATION). Likewise, I believe that successful integration begins and ends with the counselor-client relationship; a secure, genuine and empathic relationship is at the heart of well-being and personal growth. Finally, my academic studies as well as the experiential learning process thus far have imparted a sincere sense of pride in the field of counseling; I value the dedication that is required to become a counselor and I am confident in our abilities and our mission as a profession. For that reason, I strive to exemplify those values which promote professional competence and enhance the collective identity of the counseling profession.
As this book points out, and what I found interesting, the therapeutic relationship between therapist and client, can be even more important than how the therapy sessions are conducted. A therapists needs to be congruent. This is important because a client needs a sense of stability. To know what is expected from him or her while being in this transitional period of change. In some cases this congruency may be the only stability in his life, and without it, there is no way of him trusting in his t...
Egan Model’s second step is new perspectives; this is where the counselor is helping the client to identify blind spots and helping to pick out any new pe...
Professional identity is the result of a developmental process that facilitates individuals to reach an understanding of their profession in conjunction with their own self-concept, enabling them to articulate their role, philosophy, and approach to others within and outside of their chosen. As counselors engage in this individually unique growth process, it is hoped that the counseling profession as a whole will be strengthened as its practitioners and educators reach a heightened sense of purpose and a synergistic collective identity, an identity which is still developing within the profession. The term collective identity refers to having shared goals, resources, and aspirations for the profession. In order for individuals to build a personal relationship with their chosen occupation, it is important for a clear foundation to be established. To build this foundation, a professional philosophy must be constructed which clarifies and distinguishes one’s profession from other similar vocations; in this instance, other mental health fields. In counseling, this foundation is thought to be created by establishing clear professional expectations through licensure, streamlined educational programming, professional organizations, and ethical standards that build on an underlying professional philosophy. This article will review current literature and research on professional identity in the counseling field. This review will then be presented in relation to the external evaluation of success within counseling and counselor education and how this evaluation is influenced and internally understood through one’s gender role beliefs and associated societal expectations.
Kottler, A. J., (2010). On being a therapist. San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons.
...n impact on the use of self-help as a form of therapy. This allows the patient to achieve better psychological health with less time spent in therapy sessions. He provides the patient with varying worksheets as homework which helps them make larger, longer lasting gains in treatment. Ellis was “one of the very first psychotherapists to employ such assignments within a general psychotherapy practice” (Yankura and Dryden, 1994, p. 133). He has also written a large number of self-help books in his early days as a sex and marriage counselor and throughout his career in psychotherapy up until his death in 2007. Yankura and Dryden (1994) state that he has “written a greater number of self-help books than any other major psychotherapy theorist” (p. 134). The books have made self-help an increasingly popular type of therapy and placed Albert Ellis at the front of the field.
We started with Phase I. I Contact client and met to discuss what to expect with our sessions. We then went to phase II, the therapist was able to sit down and understand the clients world view and the things she was going through. Phase III is Education and Integration, the therapist educated the client about existential world view. Phase IV is awareness, client was understood existential philosophy. Phase V is self-acceptance, the client understands that from now on they can choose differently. Phase VI is responsibility, the client has taken responsibility to make different choices, accepts that one can be purposeful and bring own meaning. Phase VII is choice and freedom, the client made conscious choices that are freeing from their self-imposed neurotic constraints. Phase VIII is separation, the client realizes that she no longer needs
The difference between a deviant act and a deviant career is different in many ways. For one to start off by talking about a deviant career. A deviant career has phases that the people involved in it go through.
Sometimes individuals consider becoming counselors after overcoming some major life challenge such as addiction or a history of bad relationships. Perhaps an individual has encountered a particularly effective counselor or therapist and has a desire to follow in those footsteps. Others may have had a bad experience with counseling and concluded that it can be done better. People do not think of this work so much as a job, or even as a career. More typically, a constellation of life experiences that demand explanation and a sense that others seek one out for assistance and emotional sustenance become driving forces leading one toward the counseling profession” (An invitation to). .
A therapist must be psychologically stable. Inasmuch, analytic mastery is achieved in Qualitative and Quantitative Methods as part of a rigorous curriculum at Walden University. This scientific mindedness is key, recognizing life as an opportunity for experimentation (Kaslow, Grus, Campbell, & Fouad, et al., 2009). Scientific principles I learned in Research Methods and foundation classes in Applied Psychology.... ...
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...
..., Ellis doesn’t put it completely on the clients to figure out their problems. Ellis offers his opinion on the client’s problem and provides ways to change themselves. Unlike Beck too, Ellis refuses to approach the clients with support and acceptance as he doesn’t want patients to feel like as if their therapist are being nice because they are behaving appropriately; as if the therapist have a certain expectation from the client. Ellis prefers to build the therapeutic relationship with patient in a more confronting way. This approaching method are always seen as harsh, gaining critics especially to those who stereotypes therapy session as clients seeking comfort and support – not being scolded and told how to change their way of viewing life. Though it is believed as the time goes on, REBT practitioner is not as vigorous as Ellis does when confronting with clients.
There are four main parts to having a deviant career, and although my participants were just using marijuana not selling it, I still thought it would be interesting to look at how they could leave this deviant behavior by applying the four stages of deviant careers to them. The four stages are, entering deviance, training and socialization, changes over time, and exiting deviance. For entering deviant careers, scholars have found that “at risk” populations are more likely to enter into deviant careers. “Although some people venture into deviance on their own, the vast majority do it with the encouragement and assistance of others, often joining cooperative deviant enterprises” (Adler, 2012, p. 522). As I stated before all of my participant’s
For many clients, the experience of counseling may be viewed as an advantageous relationship that has not only assisted them in modifying their cognition and behavior, to a more rational approach but has allowed them to encounter alternative solutions that can provide a new way of living. Unfortunately all good things must come to an end and when clients exemplify that their goals have been attained, the counseling relationship must be terminated. On the contrary, not all counseling relationships or sessions close on a good note, which may precipitate premature termination. Nevertheless, counselors must still implement closing tactics when terminating any session or relationship in therapy, despite their causes (Jacobs & Schimmel, 2012, pgs. 160-162). To further understand these strategies, I will elaborate on one uncommon reason a therapist might terminate a counseling relationship and describe specific steps of closing tactics that were displayed in Dr. Patton’s counseling video. In addition, I will also list five key points counselors should consider when terminating a counseling session and provide an analogy of one point that is being utilized in Dr. Buckley’s video (Laureate Education, 2010).
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