Gerard Egan’s Skilled Helper Model Case Study 2022

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Skilled Helper model
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Table of Contents
Gerard Egan’s Skilled Helper Model..................................................................................... 2
It has 3 different stages................................................................................................... 3
Examples of cases......................................................................................................... 4
Usefulness.................................................................................................................. 5
Pros and cons.............................................................................................................. 5
References..................................................................................................................... 7

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Gerard Egan’s Skilled Helper Model
Gerard Egan’s Skilled Helper Model is the eclectically constructed counselling delivers an
organized and solution concentrated basis for the counsellors, psychotherapists and the
hypnotherapists. It is a 3 stage model in which every state contains of particular skills that the
counsellor uses to support the client move forwards in their life. Egan measured his technique to be
more about avoidance than treatment (Riggall, 2016). By grasping the process of applying these
simple skills in a suitable manner the speaking therapist might be capable to upsurge their
competence and structure their counselling work in an additional logical manner, thus assisting
clients in an additional reliable manner and being less dependent. The Skilled Helper inspires the
client to follow the point (what is pertinent), they are more non-judgemental and they are caring
rather than understanding. Suitable Empathy is a state of humanoid communication in which the
assistant enters and comprehends the client's viewpoint, whilst being in touch with their opinions
and outlooks; however, in this the assistant remains sensible in their accepting of the client's
condition and actuality (Midwinter & Dickson, 2015). The Skilled Helper similarly assist their
client to handover newly learnt skills and understanding to new situations, accelerates them in
creating suitable and realistic objectives (that contest their problem-solving abilities), inspires
them to turn out to be self-directive and grow the abilities of problem-solving, supports them to
construct on their internal strengths and to use external possessions and support teams, helps
them understand their latent and eases them in emerging goals which are particular, quantifiable,
attainable, realistic, moral and reasonable. Additionally the Skilled Helper remains encourage the
client towards therapeutic relationship and effective communication and learn about active
listening, empathy etc. (Tamadoni, et al., 2017).