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Counseling Skills and Theory
Based on book os same name by Margaret Hough
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Psychology
Graduate
03/11/2017

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Client Empowerment

Definition
confidence in the innate potential for self-determination, which clicnets are believed to have.
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Psychotherapists
Definition
trained practictioners who work withpeople over a short or longer term to help bring about effective change or enhance their wellbeing.
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Counseling Skills
Definition

interpersonal tools in order to communicate effectively with clients:

listening and attending

paraphrasing 

summarizing

asking questions

encouraging clients to be specific

reflecting their feelings

helping them to clarify their thoughts

encouraging them to focus on key issues

offering forms of challenge, whenneeded

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Counseling Theory
Definition

Assumptions and Hypotheses about the process of human development.

The way in which different forms of therapy approach problems

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Some reasons why people seek treatment
Definition

Bereavement

Issues from the past

failed relationships

addictions and substance use

bullying

HIV and AIDS

Phobias and Obsessions

Difficulties at work

Depression and Anxiety

PTSD

Crisis situations

Eating Disorders

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Egan's Structure of Therapy
Definition

Stage 1 - Review of present situation

Stage 2 - Development of a new or preferred scenario

Stage 3 - Moving into action

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Stages of Therapy, including pre-therapy stage
Definition

Stage 1 - Precontemplation: the client thinks about getting help

Stage 2 - Establishment of contract: the client either contacts a counselor or is referred to one

Stage 3 - Imagining the relationship" the client forms a picture of the cousnelor and of the relationship that will be formed

Stage 4 - Client and Counselor meet: a reange of pressing issues is discuessed and emotins surface and carhatsis may occur

Stage 5 - Clarity adn focus - problem become clearer to client

Stage 6 - Other issue: past issues surface

Stage 7 - Management and change" ways of addressing problems are discussed and considered

Stage 8 - Apprehension of change - fear expressed about change

Stage 9 - Acheivement - client moves into action and achieves some change

Stage 10 - Ending - therapy comes to an end; client is more autonomouse and is able to cope alone

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Structural Model
Definition
Framework that provides structure to counseling.
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Phases of Therapy
Definition

Beginning phase - seek to make sense of problem

Middle phase - consider what to do

Later stage - where they act

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Three main counseling approaches
Definition

Psychodynamic

Behavioural/Cognitive behavioral

Humanistic/Person-centered

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Psychodynamic Approach

Key Concepts

Definition

Sigmund Freud, Key Concepts:

  • unconscous motivation
  • psychosexual stages of development
  • innate sexual and aggressive drives
  • links between childhood and present behavior
  • nature of defense mechanisms and their use
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Behavioral Approach

Key Concepts

Definition

Pavlov, Watson, Skinner

 

Views human personality as a collection of learned behaviors. when we are rewareded for behavior we tend to repeat it. When we aren't rewarded, the behavior tends to diminish. maladaptive behavior can be perpeturated through reinforcement. 

Therapy identifies ways the behavior is maintained so it can be changed/modified.

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CBT Approach
Definition
How thinking affects behavior and enhances behavioral approach
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Humanistic approach
Definition

Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow, Fritz Perls

Innate potential every person possesses

Drive toward self-actualization

Personality is unique to person and problems are set in context of each person's experience

Behavior determined my consious mind

Subjective and individual experience

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