Assignment on Applied Counselling and Rehabilitation

Running Head: APPLIED COUNSELLING AND REHABILITATION / COUNSELLING 1
Applied Counselling and Rehabilitation / Counselling
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Applied Counselling and Rehabilitation / Counselling
Introduction
Counselling is a therapy intervention, that includes an individual willing to share or talk about
his or her problems and related feelings in a safe and confidential environment to a counselor
(McLeod, 2013). A counselor is an individual equipped with relevant counselling skills and is
believed to have the ability to give the right advice to the individual seeking help also referred to
as the client to solving his or her problem. Counselling began in the 20th century after it was
discovered that back in the tribal lineage , people would come together to form groups where
they would share their problems and even sometimes their dreams (Di Mattia & Grant, 2016).
The groups included the most dependable people in the society like the priests who would come
with a way forward to help them find solutions to the problems they were experiencing.
According to German neurologist, his psychoanalysis theory allowed individuals to tell their
problems to a trained individual with the ability to understand their subconscious being and help
resolve the problem. Counselling did not take place immediately until later when research was
carried out to enhance understanding on why some different individual behave in different ways.
This paper will concentrate on a counseling case of a client affected by anxiety resulting from
different relating issues to help her come up with a way of solving the various issues. Outline one
of the common and effective counselling approach used in counselling of anxiety cases, this will
help outline the counseling skills required and enhance an outline of the counselling session that
has been used (David, 2014).
Background information of the interviewee
For the purpose of these assignment, the person selected is a university student in his last year of
study and also doubles as a casual laborer though she doesn’t check in for the job frequently as
it’s required by her employer. As an immigrant in Australia, she has the role of learning the ways
in which people survive in the country together with her family. Her two parents are unemployed
and she doubles up as a student and also a family provider as she is the source of their daily
bread and other related basic support requirements. She has been worrying recently about the
situation facing her family as she has no clear directives of securing a job opportunity or rather
employment after her graduation at the end of the year. The problems she is experiencing has
characterized her as being overwhelmed by anxiety, as a result she saw need of seeking for

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counselling support from a qualified counselor. Her general practitioner referred her to the
counselor to whom would help her in overcoming her anxiety to coming up with a solution to the
various existing issues that are affecting her.
According to slander (2002), anxiety is what a person can see as dangerous or threatening
without understanding the context in which the feeling comes along. The common symptoms
include lack of sleep, being overwhelmed, excess worries with no clear reasons, insomnia
relating to nightmares incases of any sleep. Psychologists have carried out research to find out
why individuals with anxiety tend to unreasonably become angry and can easily result to harm of
what surrounds them. According to Cuijpers, et al (2014), findings show that individuals filled
with anxiety are filled with doubts of any event that comes their way as they in most cases lack
personal belief about issues they face even if they knew about them before they got anxious.
There are various disorders that are as a result of anxiety with phobic anxiety disorder as a good
example among many others. In some cases it’s normal for an individual to feel anxious relating
to the existing situation or circumstance, example, if a student has been studying well in school
he or she has anxiety to know if the results will favor him or her after seating for an exam. In the
same way, our client in this case is a student who expects that after studying in the university she
will be able to secure a job opportunity to be able to support her family. With both of her parents
being unemployed, she is anxious of what would follow if she is unable to provide especially
now that her mother is unwell. The main counselling approach that is applicable in this case is
REBT – Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy earlier known as Rational Therapy. This is a
psychotherapy, comprehensive and active form of counselling that the counselor uses to enable
him or her give advice to the client by giving related directives, to do away with their irrational
mind settings and come up with thoughts or a mind setting that can help them (Mayo-Wilson, et
al, 2014).
REBT – Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy
According to Dr. Albert Ellis (1955), REBT – Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy of
counselling is the most directive, efficient and effective model of problem solving (Ellis &
Rovira, 2015). The model illustrates that anxiety, depression are not caused by events alone but
it’s in accordance to ones beliefs on the events resulting to those unhealthy and unrealistic
feelings and other relating behaviors of self-denial. REBT is an active directive that only relates