Counselling Assignment: Client-Centred Therapy and Narrative Therapy with Children

Running Head: COUNSELLING 0
Counselling
10/19/2018

COUNSELLING 1
The essay brings about the discussion on the assignment of Counselling, which included two
videos by the authors, Carl Rogers and Stephen Madigan. The assignment focuses on the
aspects of human complexities and understanding throughout the life. The video by the first
author discussed the client centred therapy, whereas the second one mentioned about the
narrative therapy with the children. Counselling therapy refers to the aid to the
communication and facilitating change in an intimate relationship (Greene, 2017).
Counselling children and adults both differ in some or other ways, as their understanding
level and the way of perceiving things is different. Here, the essay enlists the therapist role in
understanding and discussing about the issues of the clients in both the videos. In the later
part, it discusses about the comparison and contrasting features in both the sessions, and the
role of any individual’s in these cases as a therapist and the client (Capuzzi and Stauffer,
2016).
The two videos/sessions, ‘Client-centred therapy’, and ‘Narrative therapy with children’,
discussed about the issues of women in her married life, and the problems faced by the
children in their early years. Carl Rogers demonstrated from the volunteers, Peter Ann, a
woman who faced the situation of feeling guilt and sadness, after putting off her from being a
mother, to become focused about her career. The case explains that the woman was suffering
as she earlier had miscarriage of twins. Two years have been passed and she is unable to
become pregnant in the future after being sufficiently healthy. The demonstration is followed
by the interaction between the client, Carl Rogers (therapist), and the groups in the session.
She faced the pressure from her family to must have a child, but she has no option to make
any change or control the situation on her own (Carl Rogers, 1985).
The other session described about the narrative therapy with the children, wherein the author
or therapist interviewed and discussed with Kristy (client), about the problems and impact of
those problems in her early years. She stated about her eight classes’ basketball practices she
had, which was 2 or 3 times a week. However, she exclaimed that earlier she was more
efficient in managing things, at ease and now the efficiency has been reduced. The therapist
in this session out of curiosity asked her several questions, knowing her behavioural patterns
and the aspects of her problems and how she managed them at the age of 14 years ( Madigan,
2017).

COUNSELLING 2
Q1.
The commonalities found in both the sessions, included about the nature of the therapist to
understand and demonstrate the required changes, in respect to the client’s problems. They
both depicted about the complexities of issues faced during different stages of life that
affected their state of happiness, and wellbeing (Smith et al., 2015). Women in the first
session, faced maternity issues or health problems related to her pregnancy loss, and the girl
in the second session described fatigue, due to her hectic routine in everyday life (Williams,
Priest and Anderson, 2016). Therefore, these issues in both the cases may lead to a long-term
impact on their health causing mental health illness, which should be resolved timely. The
other similarities in both the cases, was the outlook of both the clients on their problems, they
were strong enough to deal with their issues. They had positive outlook towards life, and
were supportive for their closed ones or family (Vincent, 2016).
Along with commonalities, there were some differences also; one of the major differences
was the nature of problems faced by the clients. The women in the first session, described
about her issue, as she has been unable to become pregnant again, after facing the loss of
twins, i.e. miscarriage. The girl in the second session, by Stephen Madigan discussed about
the positivity the girl has despite of her hectic schedule and chaotic life. The differences with
these cases included about the therapist’s viewpoints about himself and the client. The author
in the first session stated his inability to make any change for the Peter Ann, and the author in
the next author was curious to know and explore more about the client’s story, how a person
as an individual do believe in themselves and practice self-recognition, throughout their life
(Jesse et al., 2015).
Q2.
The presence of the therapist, Rogers and Madigan in their sessions respectively, it has been
found that they contributed a lot in delivering a message to the audience or public about the
complexities people face in life. Here, women as a wife, or an adult both faced some or other
issues during their stage of life. To compare the presence of the therapist in both the sessions,
as Carl Rogers, in the first session stated he wanted to be the relationship with the client to be
safe, which can make the things expressed which could not be, and to experience the feelings.
Steven Mulligan in the second case helped the client to understand the meaning of the life,
going out of the way, and the small issues faced by her in daily life (Gu et al., 2015).