Seven Core Counselling Skills and Dialogue Sample

INTRODCUTION TO
GUIDANCE AND
COUNSELLING

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Seven Core Counselling Skills.....................................................................................................3
Dialogue between counsellor and client......................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
The core counselling skills involve some basic and critical skills that the counsellors must
possess in order to perform their task in a better manner. These skills collectively help in making
the entire process more effective and the process of identifying and resolving the issues that the
client is facing (Miller & Moores, 2019). This report will identify the seven core skills that the
counsellors require and their importance in simplifying the task of the counsellor. Further, in this
report, a dialogue sample between the counsellor and client will be presented along with the
appropriate conclusion regarding the use of such skills and dialouge.
MAIN BODY
Seven Core Counselling Skills
The process of counselling is a very detailed and intricate process where the counsellor
must identify and understand the mental frame of the clients and recommend the actions or
activities that their clients must engage in according to the situations thus identified (Watson,
2019). In order to understand these situations better, there are certain additional skills that the
counsellors must integrate with the entire process of listening and understanding the clients.
These skills help the counsellors in asking the right questions and the client feels satisfied that
the counsellor has understood his problem and has given them the correct solution (Ratts & et.al.,
2016). There are broadly seven categories of skills that the counsellors can utilize while
reviewing a client and developing the correct path for recovery of the client:
Attending: When a counsellor is involved in the conversation with client i.e. when the “session”
is going on, there should be no distractions. The counsellor should take into consideration all the
actions or activities that the client in engaging in i.e. how are they talking, are they comfortable
or are they stuttering, whether they are trying to modify what they speak i.e. speaking the half-
truth or are they hiding something. These characteristics, a counsellor would be able to identify
only when they are completely focused on the client (Adekson, 2019). The client would only
open up to the counsellor when they feel that their problems are actually being heard, and the
counsellor would be able to identify and resolve the problem that they are going through. By
using a two-way approach between the client and the counsellor, the recovery process of the
client can be quick which is the ultimate success or motive of the counsellors.
Using Silence: Only listening or always speaking is not the only form of communication that the
counsellors should adopt. Silence is a crucial part that must not be made an awkward situation.