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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................4CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................7References............................................................................................................................................82

INTRODUCTION Counselling is a method of giving the advice to a person regarding the personal and socialissues in a professional manner. With the help of this, it becomes easy to assist and guide the clientsby the professional and trained person for resolving the different kinds of problems such as social,personal or psychological (What is counselling?. 2015). It has created a trust between theprofessional counsellors and clients. During this phase, it has essential to maintain theconfidentiality of the service users information. For a counsellor, there are some skills requirewhich help in understand the client requirements and provide them good counselling services tothem (What is counselling?. 2015). The following study has based on counselling skills withchildren and adolescents with the purpose of delivering the knowledge about the principles ofpsychodynamic counselling, required skills in the supportive work with children and adolescentsand the relationship as well as encounters between staff and children/adolescents (Martin, 2013). Counselling skills required to work with children and adolescents and their applications inpsychodynamic theory or work. There are various types of counselling skills which helps in dealing the children andadolescents in right manner. The most common counselling skills are listening, essential reading,play, art and transformation, talking and expression, assessment, first encounters and transference,using family trees and counter-transference & projective identification (What is counselling?.2015). The aim of the counselling skills are providing emotional security and comfort, promotesself awareness and facilitate confidence. There are numerous reasons which has generated the needsof counselling skills while work with children and adolescents such as crying without reason,academic deterioration, loss of interest in the activities, aggressive attitude, violent behaviour, usingslangs etc (What is counselling?. 2015). On the other hand, psychodynamic theory is an approach in the direction of psychologywhich has focused on the systematic study of the different psychological elements that defineshuman feelings, behaviours, emotions and their relation with the past experiences. There is a strongrelationship between the counselling skills and psychodynamic theory (Martin, 2013). With the helpof the psychodynamic theories, the behaviour of the group of people and individual can be easilyunderstand. On the other hand, by understanding the behaviour of the person, the different kind ofcounselling can be provided to resolve the various personal issues (Martin, 2013). The professionalcounsellors have used psychodynamic theory to provided counselling to the clients by knowing theroot of causes of their problems. According to the identified the issues, the suggestions can beprovided to cope up with the problems (Psychodynamic Approach to Counselling. 2015). 3

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