Counseling Skills Quiz

Counselling Approach

• Integrates chosen skills to resolve client problems, combining various approaches.

Counselling Skills

• Acquainting Skill: making oneself familiar with the client's situation.
• Chit-Chat-Skill: engaging in neutral conversations to reduce anxiety.
• Confidentiality: keeping entrusted information secret.
• Invitation to talk: encouraging the client to share maximum information.

Observation Skills

• Skill of Listening: paying attention to the client.
• Skill of Responding: providing appropriate responses.
• Skill of Attending: maintaining focus on the client.
• Maintaining proper eye contact.

Diagnosing Skills

• Formulating hypotheses.
• Locating problems.
• Administering tests.
• Pinpointing the problem.

Personalizing Skills

• Preparing the client to make decisions.
• Helping the client rectify deficiencies.

Reframing Skills

• Approaching problems from different angles.

Initiating Skills

• Encouraging the client to take action.

Evaluating Skills

• Assessing the client's performance.

Qualities of a Good Counsellor

• Magnetic Personality
• Personal adjustment
• Interpersonal Relationship
• Wide range of interest
• Professional Competence
• Leadership Quality
• Professional Dedication
• Philosophy of life

Steps in Counselling

• Rapport building: establishing a safe environment.
• Assessment of client problems: identifying concerns and issues.
• Transforming problem statements into targeted goals.
• Developing an action plan: setting objectives and tasks.
• Review and Feedback: providing reinforcement for consistent progress.

Decision Making

• A process of selection or choice among alternatives.
• An intellectual or rational process.
• Involves a time dimension and a time lag.
• Related to the situation or environment.
• A human and social process.

Problem Solving

• A mental process of discovering, analyzing, and solving problems.
• Goals: overcoming obstacles and finding the best solution.
• Helps deal constructively with problems in life.

Steps in Problem Solving

• Identifying the problem.
• Defining the problem.
• Formulating hypotheses.
• Collecting data.
• Testing the hypotheses.
• Conclusion.
• Evaluating results.

Interpersonal Relationship Skills

• Relating positively with people.
• Building and maintaining friendly relationships.
• Keeping good relations with family members for social support.
• Ending relationships constructively.
• Using verbal and non-verbal communication techniques in face-to-face conversations.