Accurate Analysis of the Counselling Interventions and Responses

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Accurate analysis of the counselling interventions and responses
The subject is worried about his present condition that suddenly after the demise of
his father, his behavior has changed drastically at the workplace and he is emotionally unwell
as well. As the counsellor elucidates and explores the problems with the subject, it is found
out during the counselling session that the subject has ben sleeping too heavily after the
passing away of his father but not in any way, the subject himself connect or rather link his
behavioral change from shyness to sudden emotional outbursts of aggression to the death of
his father and he was too distraught with his father to admit that his death has caused a trigger
of negative coping in him along with the surfacing of repressed emotions.
Egan Stage I - relationship building
Opening the session and skills demonstration
The opening of the counselling session was proper and appropriate. The patient was
welcomed warmly and greetings were given to him as well. The counselor does well to use to
communication skills such as eye contact, active listening, body language and vocal tone in
order to address the dignity and the emotional needs of the subject. The ethical parameters
such as autonomy and beneficence as well as confidentiality of the subject in the counselling
video – has been maintained properly in order address and also understand that therapeutic
needs of the subject and also to make the patient feel comfortable in the counseling session
(Vivekananda et al., 2019). Analyzing critically, the counsellor maintained a warmth in the
vocal tone which has firm and receiving and the attitude of the counsellor was empathic,
compassionate throughout the length of the counseling which helped the client or rather the
subject reveal or express his feelings about his own changing behavior, aggression and about
the death of his father and distantness with his father. The counsellor begun or rather opened
the conversation with a professional welcome and showed a genuine concern for the

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emotional problems of the subject that set the tone of the counseling on a positive tone. At
every point in the stage one, the right questions were asked by the counsellor about the actual
behavioral nature of the person, why was it changing suddenly and does the death of his
father has anything to with – which transitioned the various sub stages in the first stage of
counselling. The patient responded effectively mentioned how his behavior has changed post
the death of his father and how it did not admit in the beginning but towards the end of the
first stage, when the client-counselor relationship was already formed – when he started to
portray the character and the behavior of his father – he started to draw correlation with the
death of his father to his change in behavior to an aggressive one affecting his anger
management and emotional management skills. The counsellor’s posture was forward leaning
that depicted her interest towards what the client was speaking and this encouraged the client
to speak out his current situation of aggression at workplace. The counsellor maintained a
constant eye contact that influenced the counseling process in a positive manner and
motivated the patient to gain confidence in himself to express his long piled up feelings. The
counsellor showed strong active listening skills and drew good correlation between the
various points that the subject mentioned as response to the counsellor’s questions. A fire
tone modulation was used.
Egan Stage II – exploration and beginning work towards client’s change
Open-ended questions were asked in this stage by the counselor in order to allow the
client in the therapeutic counselling process – describe his unexpressed feelings and emotions
about his relationship with his father who is dead now and how he has felt over the years of
social and emotional detachment feeling and this being an eclectic counselling and having
both the directive and the non-directive segments ( the counsellor sued the right and
appropriate questions to direct the conservation and the counseling process in the right and
appropriate manner).