Authentic Counselling Training
Appropriate Attitudes for the Use of Counselling Skills
[Under development: 1 July 2005 ]
Questions
The following statements are derived from the work of Richard Nelson-Jones. More details are given on the page Appropriate Attitudes for the Use of Counselling Skills: Answers.
This exercise can be carried out at any one of three depths. You may choose at which depth you wish to engage with the exercise.
Depth 1: Consider each statement in turn. Recording your responses either on a sheet of paper, or using a computer text file, answer true (T) or false (F) for each statement. Having completed the exercise, go to the page Appropriate Attitudes for the Use of Counselling Skills: Answers, to see correct answers and the reasoning behind the correct answer.
Depth 2: Consider each statement in turn. Recording your responses either on a sheet of paper, or using a computer text file, answer true (T) or false (F) for each statement. Explain in writing as clearly as you are able the reasoning behind your response. Having completed the exercise, go to the page Appropriate Attitudes for the Use of Counselling Skills: Answers, to see correct answers and the reasoning behind the correct answer.
Depth 3: Consider each statement in turn. Recording your responses either on a sheet of paper, or using a computer text file, answer true (T) or false (F) for each statement. Explain in writing as clearly as you are able the reasoning behind your response. Consider (and record) the extent to which you are in sympathy with the sentiment behind the statement. Having completed the exercise, go to the page Appropriate Attitudes for the Use of Counselling Skills: Answers, to see correct answers and the reasoning behind the correct answer. Consider the extent to which you are in sympathy with the sentiment behind the correct answer.
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The
use of counselling skills allows a client to try to resolve their
issues/problems in their own way. |
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The
use of counselling skills should encourage a client to see their
issues/problems in a logical, common-sense way. |
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The
use of counselling skills is especially effective when solutions to a
client's issues/problems can be suggested to the
client in such a way that the client accepts them as their own. |
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For
a client to benefit from the use of counselling skills the person using
counselling skills must come to accept the client unconditionally. |
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The
use of counselling skills entails a social responsibility to steer a client
away from choosing inadequate or antisocial solutions to their
issues/problems. |
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The
use of counselling skills permits a client to wallow in self-pity. |
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Counselling
skills are most effective when used in the context of maximum background
information about a client. |
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To
be effective, the use of counselling skills depends for the most part on the
ability of a person using counselling skills to sort out the client's
issues/problems, rather than relying on the client's own (probably weak)
potential to resolve their issues/problems for themselves. |
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When
a client makes conflicting statements, best practice dictates that it is
generally helpful to establish the true facts of the
situation. |
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When
a client cannot understand the meaning behind a particular piece of their own
behaviour (e.g. "I don't know why I did that."), it is usually
helpful, where possible, for the person using counselling skills to suggest a
meaning to the client. |
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The
use of counselling skills generally entails taking a client's verbal
statements at face value, even though the client may be unaware of any hidden
meanings (e.g. Freudian slips). |
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The
underlying purpose of the use of counselling skills
is to help a client to become better adjusted to society. |
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