Applied Counselling

Running Head: APPLIED COUNSELLING
APPLIED COUNSELLING
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Introduction
This is a reflective journal that I will be maintaining in relation to what I have studied
this far in context of applied counselling. Counselling clients is the very integral duty of the
psychologist when it comes to ensuring that the person can cope with the mental health issues
he or she is displaying. For this the counselor will require the person to open up and trust the
counselor with the details of the problem. This is various other skills of the counselor that is
necessary to help client. Skills like assertive communication is necessary to effectively
establish proper communication with the client, by carefully establishing trust and a
relationship where the patient can be open and feels understood, the counsellor should also be
able to communicate the problems to the patient correctly. This has to be followed by
effective listening skills so that any information by the patient is not missed out and that the
patient feels comfortable knowing that someone is willing to lend an ear no matter what the
problem may be. I will also be developing my ideas on a particular counselling model to
demonstrate my understanding of the same, because it is important that future counsellors
have a firm hold on the subject of counselling and the methods that can be utilized to achieve
correct results. I will also be critically reflecting on how these various counselling skills and
abilities will be helpful in the profession and the improvements that are required for the same.
Week 1
The core work of a counselor is to listen to the stories of the client because it is in
these stories that information about the issues and problems are available. Active engagement
means actively engaging the client by replying to his or her stories while passive engagement
is mostly listening. This is similar to passive empathy where the counselor empathizes with
the client after listening to his or her stories in a passive way. Active engagement is
sometimes required to take out for the information from the client while passive engagement

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is mostly listening and lending an ear to the problems of the client. Tentativeness is important
in counselling because in order to be completely sure of the story, the counselor must confirm
it multiple times. Counselling relationship in between a counselor and a patient has to be
established by carefully establishing trust and by ensuring the patient is comfortable in
sharing stories with the counselor.
Week 3
During counseling procedure listening to the client is in extremely important step that
must be undertaken by the counselor. Thus it is important that the counselor takes into
consideration effective listening strategies that ensure know part of the information is lost. As
discussed listening can be both active and passive. Along with listening skills it is also
integral that the counselor displays understanding of the situation that is being narrated by the
client. Paraphrasing for ensuring the response to the client is accurate is also necessary. In
counseling being patient and curious is extremely important because patients take time to
open up and in order to make them open up father the counselor must showcuriosity and
interest in the case. If the client is in pain it is important that The counselor makes the client
feel valued and cared for so that he or she opens up.
Week 4
Being empathetic and sensitive to the emotions of the client is extremely important in
counseling because if that is not displayed the client feels uncomfortable and uncared for.
The counselor must learn to read in between the lines said by the client to understand how the
client maybe feeling and what is body language of the client is expressing. There might be
clients will not be very aware about how they feel about various issues and also working with