Counseling Reflection: Analysis of Scenarios and Therapy Techniques

This assignment presents a counseling reflection on two scenarios, analyzing the application of solution-focused therapy and various counseling techniques. The student details their approach to client interactions, including the use of exception, scaling, and coping questions to understand the client's situation and assess the severity of their issues. The reflection highlights the student's strengths, such as active listening and empathetic skills, while also acknowledging areas for improvement, like managing emotional biases and refining questioning techniques. The student discusses the effectiveness of solution-focused therapy, emphasizing its collaborative nature and focus on future solutions, and provides examples of questions used. The reflection concludes with strategies to enhance empathetic skills, including training and reflective practice, and methods to maintain emotional stability during client interactions. The assignment also includes a bibliography and a list of references supporting the approaches and models discussed.

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Scenario two:
Question 1:
As a counselor, during direct interaction with the client for 15 to 20minutes, I structured my interview in
questioning format. I used exception questions. Exception questioning assisted me to take extra initiatives to gain
an understanding of the situation where scaling questions helped me to gain an understanding to the degree of
severity of her situation. Coping questions were effective in the designing of the strategy to solve his problem
Question 2:
During interaction with the client, I was using my active listing skills and direct questioning skills to gain an
understanding of the feelings of the client and his problem regarding his partner. Moreover, I was making eye
Counseling session. After listening to his concern I used solution focused therapy as a coping strategy to reduce his
concern.
Question 3:
I felt that solution based therapy is an effective therapy model or approach that needed to be incorporated in
the role play. Rose and Mustafa (2018), suggested that solution focus therapy is a solution building therapy
which concentrated on finding solutions in present timed and exploring client’s hope for the future to find the
faster solution for the current situation. It is also an effective approach because this is a collaborative
psychotherapeutic approach which I had used by direct questioning to the client and collected her responses
(Roth, 2018). Therefore, this approach helped the client to develop solutions for their current issues. Additionally,
and it would further help him resolve his issues with partner .These issues might affect his children.
Question 4:
During the role play, I have observed that I had excellent communication and empathetic skills while

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interacting with the clients. I used the nonjudgmental approach while developing the therapy for resolving the
concern. In my approach, I prioritized the needs of the patient during the decision making process to make him feel
more comfortable.
Question 5:
While I was communicating with the clients, although I was excellent with the client in terms of
communication, I have observed that while I was asking questions, direct questions might affect his autonomy or
dignity. Moreover, unlike in the third scenario, I was not able to show deep emotions to empathize the patient.
Therefore in order to achieve a goal as a counselor, specific strategies are required.
Question 6:
In order to improve my empathetic skills, I would participate in the training session and reflective practice to
increases my empathetic skills so that I can provide accurate client-centric care to the scenario 2. Moreover, I would
seek the mentor’s advice to balance my emotions that I can treat each client with equal emotions for their of
comfort. Moreover, I would use indirect questions rather than direct questions which would help to restore the
dignity and autonomy of the client.
Scenario 3
Question 1:
During interaction with the client, I structured my interview in a questioning format which is identified as
effective communication and counseling skills. I have used scaling questions,Coping question an exception
question to interact with her. I felt that these questioning formats were effective to gain an understanding of the
emotion of the client. Exception questioning assisted me to take an extra initiative to gain an understanding of the
feelings of the patient (Henden, 2017). Scaling questioning assisted me to obtain the information of her sadness in

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scale 5/10 whereas coping question was effective since it helped to design the strategy according to her problem.
Question 2:
During the interaction, I was excellent while communicating with the client and I felt diverse emotions
because of her loss. During the communication, I was using my active listing, sympathy skills in response to her
loss. In scaling question, the rating was 5/10 which meant she was not ready to face the world. Therefore, after
feeling deep sympathy for her loss, I had Incorporated solution based therapy as an effective model of counseling in
the role. One of the questions I asked the client was. So if 10 represent the most unbearable agony and 1 represents
wonderful comfort, in which number would, you place your agony at the moment?
Question 3:
I felt that solution based therapy is an effective model or approach that needed to be incorporated.
Franklin, (2015), suggested that solution focus therapy focuses on finding solutions in presents timed and exploring
client’s hope for the future to find a faster solution for the current situation. It is also an effective model because this
is a collaborative psychotherapeutic approach that was conducted through a direct observation client’s response by
asking preciously constructed questions (Liu et al., 2015). Therefore, this approach would help her overcome her
lack of motivation and isolation and help her to engage in the community to liberate her feeling of loneliness.
Question 4:
In the role play, I have observed that I had excellent empathy skills for the loss of a partner. Moreover, I have
observed that I had excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills since I was asking her about her loss.
Moreover, while I was directly communicating with the patient, I had a nonjudgmental approach while developing
the therapy for her wellbeing so that she can cope with the current situation. I had problem-solving skills to resolve
the concern while she was expressing her concern that she was feeling de-motivated and isolated.

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Question 5:
Since I was emotional about her loss due to the death of her partner, I become emotionally biased to her,
which influenced my dictions making during implementing an effective approach for the client. Since I was
emotional I lost my sense of self-awareness while attending clients which is one of the weaknesses. This moment
enabled me to understand that I needed to do something about my ability to maintain emotional stability while
attending to clients with such issues
Question 6:
In order to improve my weakness such as emotional biases, I would meditate on a daily basis to reduce my
emotions in a professional area. Moreover, I will focus on my rational thinking while communicating with the
patient and designing an effective solution for the patient. I will attend and training session and workshop to
reshape my self-awareness while handling client who was suffering from sorrow

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References:
Franklin, C. (2015). An update on strengths-based, solution-focused brief therapy. Health & social work, 40(2), 73-
76.
Henden, J. (2017). Preventing suicide: The solution focused approach. John Wiley & Sons.
Liu, X., Zhang, Y. P., Franklin, C., Qu, Y., Chen, H., & Kim, J. S. (2015). The practice of solution- focused brief
therapy in Mainland China. Health & social work, 40(2), 84-90.
Rose, N. N., & Mustafa, M. Y. (2018). Stress Among Working Women: Counselling Services Using the Lazarus
Stress Theory and the Practice of Solution-Focused Therapy. Asian Social Work Journal, 3(1), 28-34.
Roth, S. (2018). Heal the world. A solution-focused systems therapy approach to environmental problems. Journal
of Cleaner Production.
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