Egan’s Three-Stage Integrative Model of Counselling and Importance of Theory

This article explains Egan’s Three-Stage Integrative Model of counselling and the importance of theory in underpinning competence. It covers the three stages and the skills involved in each stage. The article also discusses the humanistic, psychodynamic, and cognitive/behavioural theories and their significance.

Three Stage Integrative
Model of counselling
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3

Explain Egan’s Three-Stage Integrative Model of counselling..................................................3
Explain the importance of theory (i.e. Humanistic, Psychodynamic and
Cognitive/Behavioural) in underpinning competence................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
The Egan skilled individuals approaches motivate users to being progressive mediators of
the worldwide in terms of giving meaning to activities, outcome and situations, facing and
overcoming issues, exploring difficulty issues, seeking new chances and developing targets
(Bian, 2021). It involves the success that basically comes when individuals become active
sections to start positive behaviours and creating problem solving plan of actions.
TASK
Explain Egan’s Three-Stage Integrative Model of counselling
Gerard Egan's Skilled helper model that are based on counselling provides a framework
and solutions that will concentrated on the basis for counsellors, psychotherapists and
hypnotherapists. It will relates to the three stage model in that each and every stage will covers
some of the certain abilities that the expert apply to support the users to move frontward. By
recording the procedure of utilising of such basic abilities in a suitable way. It also help the
therapist to make capable to maximise their effectiveness and framework their task in an
effective manner, thus supporting clients in an effective manner and being less dependent on
their unsteady ‘therapeutic inspiration’. It also purposes to support their clients in creating the
abilities and the knowledge that are important to resolve both their terms of present problems and
ones that might raise in the furthermore section (Cooper, and et.al., 2021). To facilitate users
growth the individual create a flourishing therapeutic connection with the users that are based on
cooperation, warmness and as well as attitude. The skilled individuals facilitate the client by
supporting them to formulated the strategies and as well as tactics that support them to accept
their roles for becoming more efficient individuals and support them to create their own internal
term of the resources. As there are several sort of the Egan stages that are as follows -
Egan Stage 1
The stage one refers to the abilities of the Egan supporting model that are based on the
consideration of the user's condition and they generally correlative with the Rogerian counselling
abilities of an individual centred formulation. The aim of this stage is to create a non threatening
counselling dealing and support the users to explore their conditions and then it will concentrates
on the selected issues. In this section the skilled helper will support the users to determine and
classify the issues and opportunities and try to measure their issues. Users are frequently

unwilling and as well as impervious at this section in which the expert will support them to
research new orientation, issues negative modes of thinking and creative issues for the user's
excuses, ambiguity, deformation and destructive self statements. In this section that are based on
around that support the users in developing priorities and creating action plan that put into
exercise with more productive tactics (Davoudi, 2021). In terms of the exploring skills it will
involves several term of skills as per to the open - ended questions, silence, focusing, empathy,
paraphrasing and reflecting meaning, paraphrasing and reflecting feeling, structuring, and as well
as summarising.
Egan Stage 2
The aim of stage 2 is to facilitate the users in creating more in-depth analysis and aims to
know their conditions. This section is enacted as the skilled helper help the users in presenting
options and suitable targets. The skilled helper develops what the user suitably require and want
due to which the user is motivated to view new chances and orientation, selecting ones that are
practical, accordant with their values and by that there are competent term of motivator. The
skilled helper facilitate the users in creating coherent decision making that are based on effective
data collection, analysis and action planning. In this section it will relates to the brain storming,
divergent thinking, a balance sheet approach and force field analysis that might be utilised with
the users in respect to facilitate options among diverse manner of dealing with conditions and
accommodating targets. Such sort of techniques will support the users to explore new term of
options and tactics and as well as to know the work and their obstructing elements with the
motive of facilitating factors (Keum, and et.al., 2021). In terms of the understanding skills it will
involves several term of skills as per to the recognising patterns and themes, alternate frames of
reference, self – disclosure, immediacy, challenging, timing and pacing and as well advanced
empathy.
Egan Stage 3
The manner of the stage 3 will help the users to take suitable actions by referring the
targets, changing manner of relating and performing by issues by utilising problem solving or
decision making method that will offers help and motivation. In this section the skills will
support the users to deal with present issues and problems in the learning abilities that will allow
them to live more efficiently in the future. Action are based on consideration and knowing that

will increase by utilising stage 1 and 2 skills. In section of the stage 3 the skilled helper facilitate
the users in accommodating their targets and aims. After helping the user in dealing the manner
with as many tactics as they can the skilled helper then it will support them to concentrates on
those that are feasible in manner of users conditions, requirements, aspiration and as well as
resources. This procedure is created to support the users to move from the present conditions to
one that they would prefer (Marshall, and et.al., 2021). Transitions experiences that might create
the user feel vulnerable by which the procedure might frequently develop on the manner of
taking of small comfortable section as the users develop in confidence (but it might be based on
the requirements of the users). Practical accomplish preparation and time table that are presented
to be key occurrence and the accomplished helper is warm and supportive that help the user to
frame and overcome to maintain the barrier, turning issues and challenges into higher term of
opportunities and inspire the users to mobilize their private, social and substantial resources
(particularly helpful family members, friends and self help networks and so on).
Explain the importance of theory (i.e. Humanistic, Psychodynamic and Cognitive/Behavioural)
in underpinning competence.
Humanistic psychologists try to see individual's lives as those individuals would see
them. They tend to have an optimistic view on human aspects. They will concentrates on the
skills of human beings to follows consciously and rationally to control their biological
motivation and to accomplish their full potential. In the humanistic orientation, individuals who
are accountable for their lives and activities and have the freedom and will to have variations
their aspects and behaviour. The humanistic manner to maintain the mid – 20th century in answer
to psychoanalytic theory and behaviourism. As this term of the perspective will concentrates on
the manner that how healthy and effective individuals will create and express a person integral
drive towards self actualising and innovation (Ridley, and et.al., 2021). Humanism manages the
human potential and an person's skills to variations and evaluate the orientation of biological
determinism. Humanistic work and research are framed to be structured and sometime it will be
criticized for being qualitative for not measurement that are based on it. On the other side, it also
present some sort of quantitative research that follows the difficulty in the humanistic
psychology that involve research on happiness, self – concept, meditation and the results of the
humanistic psychotherapy.

On the other hand, Psychodynamic theory will related to the manner that are based on
clinical case studies and therefore it will also relates to the deficiency of the accounts of the
healthy personalities and as well as aspects. To come up with their divisions, it will also followed
a historical figures and as well as some of their own contemporaries whom they though had to
maintain the exceptional terms with effective mental health (Tsui, 2021). It also presented
several sort of the aspects with whom they had presented self actualising people to share their
manner.
Cognitive or Behavioural theory will enacted on range of techniques and methods that
will and behaviours. As such sort of the range that will structured as psychotherapies to self help
materials. As there are varied amount of certain sections of therapeutic approaches that covers
Cognitive or Behavioural theory that involves Cognitive therapy and Dialectical behaviour
therapy (DBT). Firstly, cognitive therapy centres follows the manner to determine and change
imprecise or deformed thinking patterns, emotional responses and behavioural terms. On the
other hand, Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) follows the manner of the thoughts and
behavioural at the time of incorporating plan of actions and as well as tactics like emotional
regulation and mindfulness with effectiveness and as well as efficiency. Cognitive or
Behavioural theory is a sort of psychotherapy that will concentrates on how an individual will
maintain their manner with thoughts, belief and aspects that will have an impact on their feelings
and behaviours. Cognitive or Behavioural theory can have a positive effects on how individuals
who feel and maintain the equipment them with coping tactics that will support them to deal with
their challenges (van den Heerik, and et.al., 2021). As per to the Cognitive or Behavioural
theory, individual's pattern of thinking is like managing the pair of glasses that develop to
follows the manner in the world in a certain manner. Cognitive or Behavioural theory makes it
more aware to the manner that how such term of thoughts will make pattern that will develop
reality and identify that how the person will behave in an effective and as well as in an efficient
manner.

CONCLUSION
From the above mentioned report it has been concluded that, Egan's skilled helper is a issues
management approach to helping manner that offers counsellors, psychotherapists and
hypnotherapists with a structured frameworks that have solutions that will concentrates on the
manner of the basis. The model has follows the three stages that are followed into it. The aim of
this report is to critically measure the model's strength and as well as weakness then move on to
concentrates on one certain aspects to evaluate the in – depth analysis and securely fulfil the
manner of concentration on myself. It will also involves an explanation of how it will utilise
certain sort of the skills and as well as personal barriers that I have experienced in an effective
and as well as efficient manner.

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