Counseling Skills and Strategies PDF

Counseling Skills and Strategies Prepared and presented by: Adriana Javier  Nature and Scope of 01 Counseling Content 02 Nature and Scope of Counseling Services Counseling Skills and 03 Strategies W...

Counseling Skills and Strategies Prepared and presented by: Adriana Javier  Nature and Scope of 01 Counseling Content 02 Nature and Scope of Counseling Services Counseling Skills and 03 Strategies What is Counseling? The American Psychological Association, Division of Counseling Psychology, Committee on Definition (1956), defined counseling as a process “to help individuals toward overcoming obstacles to their personal growth, wherever these may be encountered, and toward achieving optimum development of their personal resources” (p. 283). RA 10029 Practice of Psychology Psychological Intervention Psychological Assessment Psychological Program Psychological counseling Psychotherapy Development, planning, Psychosocial support Gathering and integration implementation, Coaching of psychology-related data monitoring and evaluation Psychological debriefing for the purpose of making of psychological treatment Group process psychological evaluation of individuals and/or groups *individual, family, group or organization Nature and Scope of Counseling Services Personal Social Cognitive Behavioral Psychological Affective Spiritual Health Vocational  a relationship between two INDIVIDUAL people who meet so that one person can help the other COUNSELING resolve a problem. COUPLES a type of counseling for intimate partners that involves COUNSELING the exploration of any conflicts between them. FAMILY often sought due to life changes or stress that COUNSELING negatively affect one or all areas of family structure. GROUP a group process, in which the role of helper and helpee can be shared COUNSELING and interchanged among the group members. Counseling Skills and Strategies  What counseling skills do you think counselors should have? Go to menti.com and enter this code: 2134 9595 Defining the Problem through Active Listening a non-directive tactic where the counselor responds to the client’s speech in ways that indicate understanding & facilitate further communication. Client: My husband irritates me... Counselor: umm-hmm Client: He picks on me for no reason at all. Attending Counselor: please continue.. Client: We do not like each other. Client: When I get home in the evening, my house is a mess. The kids are dirty… My husband does not care about dinner...I do not feel like going home at all. Reflecting Counselor: You are not satisfied with the way the house chores are organized. That irritates you. Counselor: We discussed your relationship with your husband. You said there were conflicts right from the start related to the way money was handled, and that he often felt you gave more importance to your friends. Yet on the whole, things went well Summarizing and you were quite happy until 3 years ago. Then the conflicts became more frequent and more intense, so much so that he left you twice and talked of divorce, too. Have I understood the situation properly?  Questioning Closed question “Are you feeling sad today?” "Welcome. Are you ready for us to start?" Open question “How are you feeling today?” Ask “what made you do that?” instead of “why did you do that?” There are as many counseling strategies as there are theoretical orientations or approaches in counseling. Consider your theory (e.g. psychoanalytic, Adlerian, Existential, Person Centered, REBT, CBT, Reality Therapy, Gestalt, and others) Source: Cormier, S. (2015). Counseling Strategies and Interventions for Professional Helpers.  Empathy implies that the counselor will feeding back clients’ feelings sense clients’ feelings as if they to them, without agreeing or were his or her own without disagreeing, reassuring or becoming lost in those feelings. denying. also involves having good internal “Precious, I imagine you are boundaries for yourself. pretty upset now about losing your pet and your home too.”  Positive Regard Carl Rogers (1957) described positive regard as unconditional. More recent writers have relabeled positive regard as non possessive warmth. Positive regard—or non possessive warmth—is often misunderstood as agreement or lack of disagreement with the client. Instead, it is an attitude of valuing the client. To show positive regard is to express appreciation of the client as a unique and worthwhile person.  Positive Regard Leah, the counselor, tells her Maria is a young woman who has a supervisor that she has seen her chronic health condition that client, Pedro, for three limits her functioning in sessions. She says she feels several ways. While Maria’s annoyed and frustrated with him progress in counseling is also because he comes in every slow, Leah notes how much she session and “whines about his looks forward to each session low grades,” which she believes with Maria and how supportive are bad because of his constant she is of her. partying. How can you share positive regard? Go to menti.com and enter this code: 2134 9595  Behavioral Skills Training used to help clients develop skills that are not yet in their repertoire. Assertion training - a specialized form of behavioral skills training that teaches people how to be assertive in a variety of social situations. teaching people to express themselves in ways that reflect sensitivity to the feelings and rights of others People often behave in unassertive ways because they don’t think they have a right to state a viewpoint or ask for what they want or deserve. Thus, their thinking leads to passive behavior.  A-B-C-D-E Analysis 1. Client learns to recognize the activating event (A) (e.g. situation or person), that the client finds upsetting. 2. Client’s irrational thoughts or beliefs (B) about the activating event are explored and identified. 3. Counselor links the irrational beliefs with the resulting emotional and behavioral consequences (C). 4. Counselor uses questions to dispute (D) the client’s irrational beliefs. 5. New effects (E) such as lessened emotional distress, changes in behavior occur in the client. Corey, G. (2013). Student manual for Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy (9th ed.). Brooks/Cole. Corey, G. (2016). Theory and practice of group counseling (9th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage. Cormier, S. (2015). Counseling Strategies and Interventions for Professional Helpers. Pearson. Counseling Psychology. (n.d.). https://www.apa.org. https://www.apa.org/ed/graduate/specialize/counseling Henderson, D. A., & Thompson, C. L. (2016). Counseling children (9th ed.). Cengage Learning. What is professional counseling. (n.d.). https://www.counseling.org/aca-community/learn-about-counseling/what-is- counseling Thank you!