...essay will reflect on counselling, and include what I think that is, and how it differs from other forms of helping. I will analyse and compare the different types of counselling, giving specific examples of how they vary from each other. This essay will also evaluate some of my personal experiences of having professional counselling which will enable the reader to gain an authentic perspective from the clients viewpoint. This essay will also state some of my own perspectives on what counselling is and what counselling has done for me personally. I will also demonstrate my understanding of the laws and legal implications of counselling Counselling can be a complex and abstract subject. Everyone has their own opinions on what counselling is. I am currently a student at Ty Elis training to be an integrative counsellor. This means that the therapist uses an approach which uses element from different forms of counselling and psychotherapy. After being a client and receiving personal therapy for a period of 18 months and now having started training to be a therapist myself, my own views on counselling have changed considerably. The BACP defines counselling as “Counselling and psychotherapy are umbrella terms that cover a range of talking therapies. They are delivered by trained practitioners who work with people over a short or long term to help them bring about effective or enhance their wellbeing”. Before I explain the different types of counselling I am going to express...
Words: 2185 - Pages: 9
...relationship to facilitate emotional acceptance, self-knowledge, of personal resources and growth. The aim is to provide a chance to work toward living a more satisfyingly and resourcefully life. Counselling relationships vary depending on the clients need, but may be related with developmental issues, decision making, crisis improving relationships with others, developing personal insights and knowledge, running through feelings of inner conflict or coping with. The above bring one of the roles of counselling as to facilitate the client work in ways that respect their values, capacity and personal resources and an opportunity to achieve self- determination. Counselling provides an opportunity for people to talk about disturbing and troubling issues in their life.it also help them explore their feelings in a way that is free from intrusion, dependable and confidential. A counsellor should respect an individual’s view point, helping him deal with his definite problems, improve relationships and cope with various crises. As we have seen here, counselling covers a broad spectrum; it usually comes from a professional counsellor to the patient. In simple can be referred to as a talking therapy involves talking, listening, reflecting back to what the patient says or clarifying. Counselling does not involve...
Words: 2253 - Pages: 10
...In the following essay, I will be reflecting and evaluating a practice session on grief and loss counselling with the client, Gaye, who presented with concerns that have recently surfaced in her current relationship that are as a result of the loss of her previous marriage, with her “marriage dream” now broken. I will provide a brief summary of the session, which will then be followed with verbatim examples to identify and evaluate the effectiveness of the skills utilised supportive of the clients’ decisions she deems necessary to gain confidence in her beliefs and decisions. By displaying effective use of micro-skills including, but not limited to, listening skills and attending behaviour, and also foundation skills for grief and loss counselling,...
Words: 1500 - Pages: 6
...Anxiety & Depression Abstract : Anxiety and depression are a present part of life for almost all human beings in this world. This is an illness and not a disease. This illness has incurred due to various factors in present day world which has grown to be challenging, selfish and non caring. This study investigates the various contributing factors of anxiety and depression and theories supporting them which in terms have assisted to address all relevant resolution to manage anxiety and depression in all spheres of society including workplaces. The main focus is on the workplace management of anxiety and depression as the economic dependency based on workplace is the primary key indicator to trigger off the psychological imbalance within human beings. This article elaborates the remedial procedures and responsibilities for both the employees and employer to participate in harmony to overcome the components and mange those which give rise to anxiety and depression. The approach if being managed professionally will arrest the negative mental health of the employees which will add up to incremental productivity which will eliminate cost and bear revenue generations for the organisations. Introduction : Sociological, economical, political and environmental aspects have given to increase trends in anxiety and depression across all sects of human beings across the world. This is leading to the withdrawal symptoms of employees resulting to absenteeism, error in work, low productivity...
Words: 2707 - Pages: 11
...ETHICAL ISSUES IN COUNSELLING Introduction In recent years, counsellors have taken important steps to develop clearer professional identity. Counsellors regard themselves as a specialised sub-group within the helping professions. A critical criterion for any professional group is the development and utilization of relevant ethical standards. Knowledge about ethical issues is important as these issues have legal implications. The topic under discussion also presents examples of issues of ethical concern, which may crop up in the course of counselling and how to deal with them. The study of this issues will enable the counsellor to: * avoid legal complications in the course of his/her work as a counsellor * deal appropriately with ethical issues * advise committee members appropriately on complications of counselling the students Ethics According to Ackummey (2003) Ethics are the dos and don’ts of a profession. They are the agreed standard or code governing the profession. Every profession such as teaching, law, medicine and nursing, has its own ethics. Counsellors are increasingly searching for professional status and as such need to satisfy the criteria for every profession. In Ghana, the counselling profession is still young and does not have any specific code of conduct like the teaching profession but there are general universal guidelines to which every counsellor is expected to conform. Guidelines Some of the guidelines a counsellor must use include the following:...
Words: 3451 - Pages: 14
...D2: Evaluates the effectiveness of the use of counselling skills in aiding client’s decision-making process: The ultimate goal of counselling is to enable individuals to make own decisions in life and act accordingly in order to change habits or overcome difficulties that had prevented them to achieve self-actualisation, build self-esteem or just live happily as general. In order to achieve that professionals are using variety of counselling skills and theories for support. One of the theories that is being used is Egan’s skilled helping module. Following the theory, professional first explore the reasons of something to occur and the fears that an individual has that prevent him to achieve his goals. This can be used my methods such as asking questions, paraphrasing and checking with the client on the side of the counsellor in order to provoke the individual to reflect on his own feelings and experiences. The Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs can also be used in order to explore the past of the client and how that had reflected his future. In order that phase to be successful and ethically correct, the individual should find his own conclusion about the situation instead of the professional giving his own ideas and opinions of why it all had resulted in such a way for the client. The second stage of the modal is to develop a preferred scenario for the person. In this stage the counsellor should challenge the thought processes of the client as well as patterns they have that contribute...
Words: 1132 - Pages: 5
...They tend to last a bit longer then CBT and counselling. The sessions last along the lines of a year or more and are an hour long. There are several types of psychotherapy but they all have the same goal to help understand yourself and improve relationships and get more out of one’s life. It has been noted that psychotherapy can help with depression and even some eating disorders. This is a outpatient treatment normally done at hospitals or clinics. Family Therapy works with the whole family. They explore their views and relationships to fully understand any problems the family is having and helps them communicate with each other. Sessions are about 45 minutes to an hour and a half and normally take place several weeks apart. Relationship counselling this is couples therapy they can help with a crisis in a relationship. The couples talk in confidence to a therapist or counsellor to see what has gone long in the relationship and how it can be changed to make things better. This can lead to helping couples with their need and how to communicate better. It is ideally that both partners should attend the weekly hour long sessions but they at least hope that one person...
Words: 1370 - Pages: 6
...CAUSES OF FAILURE IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS By Oke, T.D. Ph.D Department of Psychology, Guidance and Counselling Federal College of Education, Abeokuta Failure is real. Nobody likes or desires it, but most earn it. It is a bitter pill to swallow. A student who has not successfully passed all his subjects/courses with the needed requirements may be asked to repeat the class, given an extra session, bags a carry over, asked to withdraw from school or graduate with low/poor grades. Virtually all students dread failure because of its attendant effects. Failure is inability to make headway in all human endeavours. With respect to tertiary institutions, it is the inability to make the required score(s) in each of the courses a student is offering. Students fail in their examinations most often not because they are not academically brilliant but because of so many factors. These factors are grouped in to three: 1. Physical/Moral causes of failure. These includes: a. Absence from lectures/practicals b. Refusal to do assignment c. Hatred for lecturers d. Hatred for some courses e. Procrastination f. Use of unsuitable textbooks g. Carnal comparison h. Laziness i. Examination malpractice 2. Social/Environmental causes of failure. These are: a. Late commencement of studies b. Uncultured freedom c. Mismanagement of time d. Misplacement of priorities e. Distractions of social life ...
Words: 339 - Pages: 2
...which includes education, skills, abstinence, access to contraception to instill confidence and a sense of future to teenager. Among the approaches used in teen pregnancy prevention programs inclusive of education, skills, abstinence, and access to contraception as well as seek to instill teens with confidence and a sense of the future. This speaks to motivation to avoid pregnancy, a critical element in a pregnancy free adolescence. This messages about abstinence are more likely to work if they are delivered to teens when they are still young and not sexually active. A strong abstinence message should highlight important values underlying such as responsibility, self-control, self-respect, and respect for others. The messages should not fear based because teens are more likely to respond to positive messages about abstinence. Scare tactics may turn them off, preventing them from practicing skills that would keep them safe. The effectiveness of the program can be enhanced when we seek the advice of teens about how they should provide services. Ensure confidentiality of reproductive health services therefore all service providers and doctors should be bound by the confidentiality clause to reduce stigma for of all women who access sexual and reproductive health services. Personal counselling should be given negative pregnancy tests as it is a great opportunity to offer teens in-depth counselling to prevent future pregnancies. Teenage prevention programs should involve teenage...
Words: 404 - Pages: 2
...This essay is a reflective evaluation of the skills of counselling applied to loss and grief in a student’s process of learning how to travel the journey of the therapeutic relationship with the client. The essay will contain reflections of verbatim examples from during the practice session in which Steven Felice is the client, and Caroline Roberts the counsellor. The essay will also discuss via relevant literature the process of person-centred counselling in the focus of loss through bonds of attachment and continuing bonds. The practice session took place in counselling room two, at ACAP on the 21st of April 2010, between Steven Felice and Caroline Roberts. Steven wanted to discuss the loss of a friendship. This friendship for Steven was a friendship that had begun in early childhood and carried a deep bond of attachment, for which Steven is finding the loss hard to accept. During the session I spent the majority of the time listening to Steven and reflecting as best I could the content and emotion of his experience. When dealing with loss in relation to friendships it is important to offer the client the same respect to emotional depth of expression as that of a person experiencing loss from a death. For Steven the loss of significance surrounded his childhood friend no longer wishing to be as close as usual due to her recent change of religious affiliation. For Steven this seems difficult to accept, as he was willing to try to understand and acknowledge her needs and...
Words: 1263 - Pages: 6
...necessarily focus on the lawyering skills. Client counselling is a vital skill in which the students of law should be trained. One of the significant functions of a lawyer is to advise the people who seek assistance in knowing the legal implications of their actions. The lawyer is looked upon to facilitate decision making in certain critical legal matters. This function of the lawyer influencing and facilitating decisions is called counselling. Bar Council of India, the highest professional body of lawyers, has a key role in Professional Legal Education.1 It has drawn up a detailed scheme on practical training consisting of professional ethics, barbench relations, contempt of court, moot court, pre-trial procedures, negotiations, interviewing and counselling, drafting of conveyances and pleadings, legal aid, public interest lawyering etc. The word 'Counsel' has its origin in the Latin word 'consilium' which means advice.2 According to Blacks' Law Dictionary, counsel means advice and assistance given by one person to another in regard to a legal matter, proposed line of conduct, claim or contention. As a matter of fact lawyers are also legal counsels. Counsellor is an attorney; lawyer; member of the legal profession who gives legal advice and handles the legal affairs of client, including if necessary appearing on his or her behalf in civil, criminal or administrative action and proceedings.3 The process of counselling has two functions: 1. To help the person talk...
Words: 2339 - Pages: 10
...‘’Evaluate the claim that Person-Centred Therapy offers the therapist all that he/she will need to treat client’s’’. When looking at Person-Centred Therapy the name that most commonly pops up is that of Carl Rogers. Rogers believed that people continually strive ‘to become a person’. He was convinced that a strict upbringing resulted in the repression of emotions. Love is an important emotion to aid our survival, particularly from those that are around us with whom we depend upon for survival. He argued that in infancy we developed positive, self- regard and needed this in order to survive. Carl Rogers Theory of the self-concept Carl Rogers theory of the concept of self relates to the individuals perception or image of themselves which is based on life experience. So if a child’s first experiences are negative, Rogers believed it likely that by the time they became an adult, the child would have a poor self-concept. The theory includes the organismic self (or self-actualising tendency) and self-concept. The organismic self is with us from birth and strives to mature and achieve self-actualisation. The self-concept is acquired in early childhood, it is shaped by positive attitudes we receive from important others (usually parents). The self-concept usually comes into play due to secondary needs, positive regard from others and positive self-regard. An example of positive regard from others would be of a parent not paying much attention to their child telling them about their...
Words: 2416 - Pages: 10
...‘All these personal counselling/therapy requirements for counsellors in training encourage selfish introspection. Counsellors are there to help others, and if they need counselling themselves, they should not be in the job.’ I am a counsellor in training on an integrative diploma course, which has a mandatory sixty hours of personal therapy that students must undertake. Here I will explore what other institutions expect their students to undertake, if any, and their reasons for this. I will also explore what could the intended or unintended consequences of these be, what the positives and negatives of being in therapy are and what my own opinion to this statement is. I will also look at my own experience of counselling and whether or not counselling will be impactful to everyone during the course. The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), our professional body, removed the mandatory aspect a few years ago stating that the psycho-dynamic approach believed that forty hours isn’t long enough personal therapy whilst in training, the person-centred approach believed that personal therapy should be undertaken when the person is ready. They state that their criteria for accredited courses are, ‘Courses should ensure that trainees gain experience of being in the client role.’ I have found that there is a huge debate on this, some theorists believe it should be included within the training (Atkinson,2006) and some argue that it should not be mandatory (Wiseman...
Words: 2141 - Pages: 9
...infirmity.” 2. 3 key elements – Statutory, Private, Voluntary and Informal care? 3. Role of DOH - The Department of Health (DH) helps people to live better for longer. They guide, shape and fund health and care in England, making sure people have the support, care and treatment they need, with the compassion, respect and dignity they deserve. 4. DOH policies for 2015/2016- * Building the foundations for early adoption * Planning together with confidence * Engaging communities * Empowering patients 5. Change4Life purpose – Change4life is a public health programme in England, it is the country's first national marketing campaign produced in order to tackle the causes of obesity. 6. The 6 C’s - Care, Compassion, Competence, Communication, Courage and Commitment. 7. The Care Certificate is an identified set of standards that health and social care workers adhere to in their daily working life. 8. Person-centred therapy - also known as person-centred counselling or client-centred counselling - is a humanistic approach that deals with the ways in which individuals perceive themselves consciously rather than how a counsellor can interpret their unconscious thoughts or ideas. Research Stretch and Challenge 1. Manchester has the highest premature mortality rate (deaths per 100,000 = 550) 2. The reason for Manchester having the highest mortality rate is due to cancer, heart disease and strokes. 3. The Care Act replaces most current law...
Words: 302 - Pages: 2
...Existential counselling is a philosophical form of counselling which addresses the situation of a person's life and situates the person firmly within the predictable challenges of the human condition. Existential counselling considers human living to take place within four dimensions: physical, social, psychological and spiritual. It shows each of these dimensions to be constituted like a force field, within which predictable paradoxes, tensions and dilemmas play out. Human beings can learn to deal with these tensions and conflicts more effectively by facing up to the negatives as well as the positives of their lives, including the tensions of life and death, love and hate, strength and weakness and meaning and absurdity. Best known authors on existential counselling are Irvin Yalom in the USA through his book Existential Psychotherapy (1981) New York: Basic Books and Emmy van Deurzen, who created the British School and who published her bookExistential Counselling and Psychotherapy in 1988 (London: Sage Publications; second edition 2002, third edition 2011). Existential therapy essentially helps deal with the problems of everyday living, such as relationship difficulties (both with Individuals & in Couple Therapy), anxiety/fear, food/body-image issues, addictions, mood disorders, social anxiety, panic, trauma, low self-esteem, unresolved childhood issues, sexual issues and others. It is a clear, direct and honest approach helping clients work on their particular, unique...
Words: 1485 - Pages: 6
