Assignment 1

Question 1

A job description for a volunteer counsellor on marriage guidance,
The person required for this job must be fully qualified, previous experienced not accentual but would be preferred, good telephone manner required as counselling would be given over the telephone.

Question 2

Help for Heroes; a charity that provides counselling to help the recovery of the armed forces.

ChildLine; a charity that provide counselling to children that have been or are still victims or cruelty.

Relate; helps to provide relationship guidance to the whole family.

Cruse; helps provide counselling to people who have suffered from bereavement.

Question 3

I would make a client feel at ease by introducing myself as they come into the room, that I would offer a handshake and a warm friendly smile. I would start by explaining what the session will include so they have an understanding of how the time they have will be used. I would also make sure that it is a quite environment or that of which the client may tell me will help them to relax and feel at ease.

Question 4

Anorexia Nervosa is a form of eating disorder where the person develops and obsession with dieting, losing weight and food. Anorexia Nervosa will usually have begun to develop under the age of 20 but is not always the case. 5% of these cases are men as it is sometime know as the “celebrity illness” to which is mostly seen in young women.

Question 5

PMS stands for Pre-menstrual syndrome this can be a combination of physical and psychological symptoms.

Question 6

• Difficulty falling asleep, the main cause for this is the brain goes into over drive when we go to bed so we then feel unable to sleep as we have the worry of what the next day may bring. • Work performance may be affected; the main cause for this could be the worry of home or work life the person may have something affecting the way they function i.e. health worries. This would then put pressure on them in turn affecting their work performance. • Problems in “switching off”, the main cause for this could be the same as when you have difficulty falling asleep. Once they have left environment they may then find it hard to “switch off” as they have the worry of what may happen next, this could be the next hour, day, week, or an indefinite period of time. • Headaches, the main cause for this is the person may be unable to cope with what has happened there for they will then be over thinking causing a headache. For example the loss of a loved one, it may be on the person’s mind there for they are unable to cope. • Increase in smoking, the main cause for this is the person sees smoking as a way to relax them after an event has happened or before it has started. • Alcohol consumption, the main cause for this is the same as an increase in smoking the person may find alcohol relaxes them and helps to forget the problems they face.
All symptoms of stress have different causes to from feeling tired to the use of legal or illegal drugs but the main cause for people feeling this way is the way have “cope” with the day to day running of life.

Question 7

Six forms of addiction are; • Gambling • Using legal or illegal drugs • Alcoholism • Sexual addiction • Overeating • Smoking

Question 8

RELATE are relationship counsellors, they help couples with different problems in their relationship from sexual problems to helping children cope with their parents parting. For example a couple’s relationship had broke down after their children had grown up and left home, the couple buried themselves in family life so once they children left home there was nothing to focus on. The couple then found out they had become strangers to each other and considered parting ways with the help of Relate they worked though the problems using counselling sessions to find that divorcing was not the way to go. The couple is now celebrating their 21st wedding anniversary.

Question 9

I would consider smoking as both an addiction and abuse. I consider smoking both as once you start smoking it can be very hard to quit which to me this is an addiction, I also consider it as abuse as smoking can damage you health so this is classed as abusing your body and other people that are breathing in the smoke around you.

Question 10

The term “care of self” is the person has recognised that something is wrong and there for will take their care into their hands, be that the seek counselling for them self or not. This maybe NHS counselling, private counselling or the many other types available to them.