Assignment on Management - Applied counselling

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Applied counselling
Name of the student:
Name of the university:
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Counselling session with the client
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Counsellor and client
Counsellor: Good morning, sir.
Client: Good morning.
Counsellor: Today, we have gathered here to discuss on your situation and would make an
attempt to resolve it.
Client: I have been stranded on an island, where there is no hope.
Counsellor: Why are you so dejected towards life? You have to think positive at all times.
Client: The circumstances does not always let you think positive.
Counsellor: Why do you think so?
Client: Well, I think it is the surrounding people and the job, in which you are employed.
Counsellor: Lets do one thing. Elucidate on your current situation.
Client: Well, it’s a long story. I work as a technician for Computer Whiz for ten years, for
which I have developed a disliking.
Counsellor: Why?
Client: I think it is the working environment, which does not support in embracing
professionalism for enhancing the identity. At the current stage, I am also concerned about
how effective it would be to switch over the job.
Counsellor: Can you elaborate on this point?
Client: In my current situation, I am really concerned about my capability towards handling
the pressures in a completely new ambience. However, the thought of changing the job
makes me happy.
Counsellor: How would you define your current life?
Client: I can state that my current life is full of negativity. I have indulged into alcohol

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addiction, which, I feel is a temporary solution to cope up the tensions and concerns. You
know something, now I lack the motivation to go to gym or meeting with friends.
Counsellor: So how do you spend your day?
Client: You would be surprised to know that I utilize my spare time watching television,
for which I long for, throughout the time I spent in the office.
Counsellor: Do you have any plans for securing and organizing your life in the near future?
Client: Yes, obviously. I intend to gain effective knowledge regarding this aspect, but I am
really concerned that I lack adequate information about this aspect.
Counsellor: So what have you planned next?
Client: I don’t know, I am completely clueless about what to do next.
Counsellor: Can you kindly provide an example
Client: Well, according to me, Coleridge’s Xanadu in Kubla Khan can be applied, which
acts as a medium for the people to transcend into a utopian world, which is full of
happiness and satisfaction. Countering this, I can state that psychologists are of the view
that this Xanadu and utopian world are like illusions, which provides a temporary solution
to the people from the stressful life issues. Counterarguments can also be proposed through
the application of Freud’s stages of development, where the children’s growth has been
maturized in terms of the circumstances in which they are placed.
Counsellor: You are being philosophical here, which affirms the Freud’s stages of
development, which gifts them a safe and secure future.
Client: I think children encounter all of the struggles and familial issues, which prepares
them for the bigger challenges in life. This preparation is itself an indication of embracing
maturity for achieving growth and development.
Counsellor: Now tell me about your opinions regarding controlling the emotions.
Client: Dissatisfaction from the employment distorts the integrity of the personal life.

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incapability towards controlling the emotions is higher, as the demarcation between right
and wrong decisions becomes ambiguous. I also think that rationality and logical reasoning
is missing in the approaches and attitudes, which is obvious in terms of the external
influences adversely affecting the thought process of the client.
Counsellor: You are right. Be best assured that you have come to the right place for
gaining back stability into life. We are pleased to inform you that we would be using Data
Protection Act (1998), which would assist us to maintain the privacy in the information
shared by you. As this is sensitive issue, we also need to implement ethical code of conduct
in terms of preparing your portfolio.
Client: May I ask a question?
Counsellor: Please go ahead.
Client: You would be surprised to know that our strategy in the cognitive behaviour
therapy is to map the journey of the clients from the stage of negativity to restoration of
stability. The transition is noted down for detecting the trends and patterns, which emerge
in the behaviour of the clients in the sessions, while completing the exercise sheets and
activities. The style of approaching the activities reflects the changes in the learning
behaviour. Using observation skills and reflection for judging the appropriateness is
essential in terms of the concretizing the experience of the clients.
Client: That sounds great.
Counsellor: This is not all. Along with this, at the initial stage, need analysis is important,
which helps in detecting the main issue, which is obstructing the stability in the life.
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs would be used for detecting your most important need.
Client: Indeed useful approach.
Counsellor: Can you tell any other points regarding this therapy?
Client: I think communication formed the agent towards solving the potential issues like

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that of stress, depression, anxiety and others. I also think that intention towards learning
and getting more reflects the initiative towards organizing the life on a positive
connotation.
Counsellor:
Counsellor: What I would suggest is you spend some time with family, which would help
you in regaining precious moments of happiness. Oh, now tell me something about your
family.
Client: I mostly live alone, as my wife stays abroad with 3 children, who are very small
and need more care and nourishment in their developing years. I specifically do not want
them to get into the negativity, which has enveloped my life.
Counsellor: This is indeed a productive thought for securing the children’s future.
Client: Yes, you are right.
Counsellor: I would recommend you to join our organization, where you would be able to
find better solutions for the dealing with the issues of life.
Client: What benefits would I achieve by joining your organization?
Counsellor: You would be involved in therapies, sessions, motivational seminars, lectures
and other extracurricular activities.
Client: Really?
Counsellor: Yes, sir.
Client: I think my search for organizing and securing my life ends here.
Counsellor: Definitely.
Client: What is the enrolment fees?
Counsellor: You can log into our website for accessing further information about the
motivational counselling session, ‘Ray of Hope’.
Client: The name sounds great. It inculcates a feeling of assurance, giving me confidence

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regarding approaching the issues of life.
Counsellor: Participate in the activities and sessions, you will feel that your individuality is
enhanced.
Client: Let’s hope for the best. I need an assurance whether my responses would be
protected from the instances of commercialization.
Counsellor: Be best assured that your responses would be protected from
commercialization and would be used solely for the purpose of researching how the life
can be organized.
Client: What are the special attractions, which I would get by participating in the
motivational counselling session?
Counsellor: Cognitive behaviour therapy would be used for identifying the source of the
disturbing thoughts and uprooting them through extracurricular activities.
Client: It sounds interesting.
Counsellor: Yes, your interest is our satisfaction.
Client: That should be the case, as our feedbacks brings noticeable changes in your
business style.
Counsellor: You are right. Your valuable feedbacks matters and holds significance in terms
of upgrading the standards and quality of our operations. Do you want to tell something
about my approach towards you?
Client: Consciousness and caring approach towards me makes you a dutiful person. If my
current condition is considered, at this stage, I need quality time and support from peers,
which you have properly provided. Communication is one of the agents, which solves half
of the problems, existing in the life of the client. This communication is directed towards
detecting the unwanted thoughts, which hover in your mind and altering their nature, so
that you find assistance in organizing your life according to the requirements. Along with

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this, I also feel that if the caring approach is limited, then the assurance and trust factor is
less in terms of the mentality towards accepting support from the counsellors. This
situation can be harmful in terms of dealing with the situations effectively.
Counsellor: Yes, you are right. Did you find any limitations?
Client: I feel personality tests are fruitful for the counsellors to detect the current
personality and the arenas, which are to be developed for altering the standards and quality
of the personality. Along with this, Dobson and Dobson, (2018) behavioural experiments
are also necessary for evaluating the extent to which the activities align with the aspects of
planned action and reasoned behaviour. Capability to make these changes in the
personality enhances the approachability. According to this aspect, the trust factor is
higher, as it adds stability in the relationship between the clients and the counsellors.
Counsellor: Do you have any idea about the approach of motivational interview?
Client: Well, I have gathered information that Motivational interview is applied on the
people suffering from resistance, reluctance and ambivalence towards adopting the change.
Most of the people oppose the fact that change is inevitable. This is due to the fact that they
intend to cling to their traditional roots.
Counsellor: Yes, you have correctly pointed out. This clinging approach, on one hand,
enhances one’s culture. On the other hand, this clinging limits the thinking skills,
creativity, imagination and judgmental capabilities.
Client: Compulsion in this case, distorts the trust and dependence factor, indicating the
negative results, which can act as an obstacle in the counselling process. Along with this,
detection of the factors instigating the clients to change is also to be detected. This
detection is crucial in terms of excavating the root cause of the stress, depression and
anxiety.
Counsellor: You would be surprised to know that the strategic approach in this direction

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relates to the development of insight into the ambiguities towards change. The main aim in
this direction is to detect the possible ways in which the strategies can be used for instigate
positive behaviours. Directive leadership behaviour and style in this approach is fruitful in
terms of stabilizing the relationship between the client and the counsellor.
Client: I think participative management style is productive approach in terms of providing
a stable platform to the client to voice out the issues.
Counsellor: I feel that the stages of change model, is important, which brings the stages of
unfreezing and refreezing stages. In case of the client, unfreezing stage would be detection
of the factors, which fills his life with negativity, stress and depression. Refreezing stage
would reflect from the assurance and evaluation that the standards of living for the client
has been added with positivity.
Client: According to my observations, on this stages of applying the changes, personal
insight and proximity to change are considered. These components portrays the character
of the client, picturing his mind-set. Therapies acts as a medium between the unfreezing
and the refreezing stages. The etymological origin of the motivational interviewing were
performed on the people suffering from the alcohol abuse.
Counsellor: You seemed to have rsearched a lot about the counselling approaches.
Client: Yes, little effort……
Counsellor: I feel that alcohol abuse is considered as a solution, which temporarily helps
him to forget the dissatisfaction achieved from the employment. Delving deep into the
matter, this dissatisfaction contradicts the hard earned reputation in the company and the
moments spent with the colleagues. In this context, lack of motivation to meet the friends
is something striking, which further aggravates the complexities in the life.
Client: I have also learnt about the fact that Control groups are involved in the process of
counselling, where they are served with encouragement and advice towards dealing with

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the instances of stress, depression and anxiety levels. Exclusion of this group from the
interpretations of the behavioural intentions evoked improved results in case of the
intervention group.
Counsellor: To add to your information, duplication of the research contradicts the
stagnancy in the cause and effect on the emotions and behaviour as a result. Motivational
interview is directed towards excavating the elicit factors, leading to the desires towards
embracing the change. Therapeutic settings are important in terms of mapping the
behavioural changes. Motivational interview is a person centric approach, the mechanism
of which is depended on the principles. Practice helps the clients in developing the skills of
thinking, creativity, imagination and judgment.
Client: Researching on the counselling approaches, I have found that The strategies,
through which the motivational interviews are conducted are empathy, discrepancies,
argumentation, resistance and self-efficacy. The process of this interview consists of four
elements, which are engaging, focusing, evoking and planning. Engagement relates to the
involvement into the motivational counselling sessions.
Counsellor: The focus in this context is that of providing assistance to the clients for re-
organizing their life. External challenges contribute into the affectation in terms of mental
parameters. Planning indicates that need for developing strategies according to the
behavioural attitudes and beliefs of the clients. Stages of the change model are to be used
rationality in terms of gaining trust, loyalty and dependence from the clients.
Client: I also think that consciousness, logical reasoning and rationality are integral in the
pre-contemplation stage, where the counsellors need to convince the clients for embracing
the change through the means of therapies and motivational sessions. This can be done
through the means of exploring the potential options, which concerns the client in terms of
maintaining the stability in life.

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Counsellor: To inform you, the The stage of contemplation accompanies the stage of
evaluation for the pros and cons of the behavioural changes, which erupt in the client. In
the preparation stage, problem solving cycle is adopted and aligned with the identified and
specified goals. Identification of the social support is necessary in terms of assessing their
effectiveness in terms of the needs, demands and requirements of the clients. The stages of
preparation and action are transitory in nature, where the proposed theories of planned
action and reasoned behaviour are translated into practice through the means of therapies
and sessions.
Client: Sounds great.
Counsellor: Apart from this, reference can be cited of the solution focused brief therapy,
which aims at ensuring the wellbeing of the clients like you.
Client: I think that all of these propositions relate to the theoretical perceptions of the
clients towards executing the roles and responsibilities. The second rule infuses motivation
into the clients in terms of regaining the strength to conduct the activities. The third rule is
somewhat contradictory regarding completion of the tasks. If one work is not working,
attempts is to be made so that the solutions can be achieved for solving the tasks. On the
contrary, I also feel that trying something different can compel the clients to lose focus and
balance between the tasks, which can generate delay. Practice is nullified in the rule that if
a work is not fruitful, then trying harder is prohibited.
Counsellor: Do you know something about solution focused brief therapy?
Client: Yes, I have heard that it is a ‘psychological intervention’, where the intention is to
produce the change, irrespective of the time limitations. The support is exerted towards the
people suffering from the psychological problems. Goal setting theories are acquired for
estimating the solutions, which can be effective in terms of solving the issues and risks of
depression, anxiety and stress. The application of solutions aligns with the alterations in the

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standards of living of the clients. The aim of the counsellor is on the health of the client,
which stabilizes the approach towards accomplishing the goal of adding stability into the
relationship.
Counsellor: Yes, right.
Client: You would be surprised to know that The initial nature relates to ‘freedom’ in case
of making choices regarding solving the potential issues. Description of the solutions,
according to the wishes is also considered as one of the characteristics, which not always
supports the behavioural experimentation. Freedom also persists in the form of possessing
the resources for solving the problems. In this case also discrepancies prevail on the form
of resource inadequacies, which compels the clients to suffer delays in submitting the
works. Inspirations and encouragement is proposed towards increasing the frequency in
enhancement of the useful behaviours. Maladjustments in this context relates to the aspect
of incapability in the practical application of the innate qualities. The person as an
individual is nullified in terms of seeking an insight into the potential solutions for the
issues of depression, anxiety and stress.
Counsellor: You seem to be very informative.
Client: Thank you, sir.
Counsellor: The counselling session is structured according to the goals and agendas,
which improves the vision of the counsellors towards providing relevant support and care
to the clients.
Client: Encouragement in terms of win-win approach is implemented in the counselling
process. The vision is cleared and communication to the client, as the counsellor in the case
scenario. The counsellors assure that clients that change is possible and indulgence towards
embracing change is necessary in terms of detecting the potential capabilities, which drives
the performance of the clients towards maturity, growth and development. SMART goals

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are acquired in the process of interpreting the behaviour and response of the client.
Counsellor: Important elements are emotions, cognition and interactions with the clients.
Contextual understanding of the situation and deciding on the solution to be applied, adds
relevance and validity in the process of counselling.
Client: I have heard that In the process of this therapy, the role of the counsellor is judged
from four types: consultant and collaborator; establishing rapport with the clients; non-
judgmental and cultivating empathy. Non-judgmental can be considered as an approach,
which nullifies the biases, which reflects the ethical considerations, which needs to be
adhered for complied for gaining trust, loyalty and dependence from the clients.
Empathetic approach towards the issues of the clients projects the consciousness towards
ensuring the wellbeing of the clients.
Counsellor: Thank you for the additional information.
Client: Looking forward to your services.
Counsellor: Waiting eagerly for your investment. Thank you for your valuable time.
Client: Welcome.