Comprehensive Report: Introduction to Counselling Skills and Practices

This report provides an overview of counselling skills, focusing on helping relationships and various techniques. It explores the initiation and maintenance of therapeutic relationships, emphasizing the importance of appropriate settings, time management, and confidentiality. The report delves into ethical considerations, limitations, and the development of empathetic connections. It examines the process of referral, goal setting, and how specific skills, such as paraphrasing and body language, support clients. Furthermore, it discusses strategies for conducting counselling sessions, including listening, facilitating clients, and the benefits of counselling. The report concludes with an analysis of skills used during sessions and the methods employed for effective communication and client support. The report highlights the importance of building trust, active listening, and the use of different strategies to help clients solve their problems and improve their self-awareness and well-being. It also touches on the benefits of counselling, such as self-knowledge, improved mental health, and clarity of mind. Finally, it provides an analysis of the counselling conclusion methods.

INTRODUCTION TO
COUNSELLING SKILLS

Table of Contents
lHELPING RELATIONSHIP.........................................................................................................1
lInitiation of relationship.............................................................................................................1
lAppropriate setting.....................................................................................................................1
lImportance of telling time and confidentiality .........................................................................1
lEquality......................................................................................................................................1
lEthical consideration .................................................................................................................1
lLimitations.................................................................................................................................1
lEmphatic relationship................................................................................................................1
lReferral .....................................................................................................................................2
lMaintaining the relationship .....................................................................................................2
lGoal Setting...............................................................................................................................2
lHow did this skill support the client ........................................................................................2
lINTRODUCTION TO COUNSELLING.......................................................................................3
lConducting a counselling...........................................................................................................3
lStrategies of Counselling...........................................................................................................3
lFacilitating the Client.................................................................................................................3
lBenefit of Counselling...............................................................................................................3
lCounselling conclusion..............................................................................................................3

l壱HELPING RELATIONSHIP
Helping relationship can be initiate and developed with keeping ethical and appropriate
boundaries in between client and company. Helping relationship is initiated in the professional
manner only . Helping relationship is conclude at the time of task is finish.
l壱Initiation of relationship
Relationship will be initiated with the help of five stage process. The stage includes Helping
Clients Create Goals, Establishing a Working Relationship, Identifying Clients' Problems,
Encouraging Client Exploration and Taking Action and Termination.
l壱Appropriate setting
The appropriate setting should be calm, private and with the good light and most importantly it
should be simple so that any ones mind does not distract with any objective around them.
l壱Importance of telling time and confidentiality
Important of telling time and confidentially to the client is that it will give the message to the
client that there is a good bit of the professionally is maintained. This will eventually build good
impression.
l壱Equality
Equality can be maintained by making sure that the all the relationship should be done with the
client should be done on the same terms and condition.
l壱Ethical consideration
Ethical consideration of the relationship is that high level of confidentiality should be maintained
regarding the information. This can be done by involving less number of employee in
relationship process.
l壱Limitations
The biggest limitation is the confidence of mine while performing the activity to achieve
something. This can be communicated by keeping the mind clear at every point of the time
during the task.
l壱Emphatic relationship
Few thing need to consider at the time of developing emphatic relationship that is try to talk as a
friend to the stranger and also make sure that the tone of the communication is at softer side.
Also has to make sure that they are open up toward all the client.
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l壱Referral
At the time we will not able to build the relationship which is desired by the client we will refer
him to the different counselling hall and also to the doctor who can help them better.
l壱Maintaining the relationship
Responding in warm and genuine way as it will help us in bringing the trust of the client and the
client will also feel comfortable to share their point of view in front of me which will help me
understanding the client problem in easy way.
l壱Goal Setting
At the time of setting the goal there are variety of the challenges which used to be seen such as
the time period need to be allotted to achieve the goal of the business. Also selection of the
resources to achieve the goal.
Conclusion
Generally I used to provide with the different strategy and used to ask about the best way in their
thought which can be used by the client for forming the plan for further proceeding.This
generally help me in passing on the dice in the client side and ask them to pass on their point of
view so that on the basis of that the relationship can be closed in their favour.
l壱How did this skill support the client
Paraphrasing is help the client in understanding the thing in simple way.
Body language help client in linking the issue with reality.
this help them in explaining themselves in better way and more freely.
Trustworthiness will help the client feeling friendly environment.
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l壱INTRODUCTION TO COUNSELLING
l壱Conducting a counselling
Generally I uses a Reflecting and Paraphrasing it helped me in passing on the information in the
reliable way so that it get easier for the client to understand and build a bond.The biggest
improvement which will be brought by them is that it will help me in building the bond with the
client in the better way. I try to listen the client first by being silence it does not help me in
building the bonding which is require in the counselling session. Immediacy is the skill which I
lack as I always found that I am not able to jell up with the client that easily.
l壱Strategies of Counselling
Listening is the best strategy which is used by me in which I try to listen the different message
which are pass on to me by the client and on the basis of that try to identify the issue and try to
solve the same issue very confidently. The reason behind the success of the strategy is that client
feel that I am in not hurry of anything and I am here to listen all the thing necessary to get the
solution.
l壱Facilitating the Client
At the time of facilitating the client with the problem solving I used to used the Focusing and the
attending skill as this skill help me in concentrating the issue of the client in better way and on
basis of which I can take the different decision in the organization.The reason behind is that I am
concentrated enough on the issue which is faced by the client. This will help me in sorting down
the problem in small summary which will eventually help me in increasing the efficiency of the
counselling process.
l壱Benefit of Counselling
A greater degree of self-awareness and understanding of yourself and others is the biggest
benefit which is brought to the client.
Client is also able to get the best available solution of the issue which is faced by the client in the
real life.
Counselling improves your self-knowledge, well being, health, and clarity of mind.
l壱Counselling conclusion
For ending the session I generally uses the paraphrasing it generally help me in passing on the
message in the simple words to the client so that the client used to remember the summary of the
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counselling for the longer period of time. The skill I thought which will be beneficial but never
work at the time of conclusion is Focusing as at the time of conclusion all the client generally
gets tired.
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