Authentic Counselling Training
Certificate in Counselling: Assignments
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Assignment 3
A Core Condition in Detail
Purpose of the assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to consider in detail a key feature of the person-centred counselling model.
Procedure for the assignment
Utilising the headings (and subheadings) pinpointed below, write a structured report of 3,000 (± 300) words that addresses clearly and in detail the person-centred core condition of genuineness.
1. Introduction: brief outline of the scope of the report (what the report will consider)
2. Supporting what you write with material drawn from appropriate theoretical (not general dictionary) sources, consider what you understand by each of the person-centred terms:
o Genuineness
o Congruence
o Transparent / apparent
o Authentic / real
3. Supporting what you write with brief examples drawn from your domestic and/or work life, consider the circumstances when you have been / are typically
o aware of your feelings
o unaware of your feelings
o able to articulate accurately to someone how you feel about your relationship with them
o unable to articulate accurately to someone how you feel about your relationship with them
4. Supporting what you write both with material drawn from appropriate theoretical sources, and with brief examples drawn from your experience as a Listener (counsellor) in the observed practice rooms (or some other formal situation in which you have helped another person), consider the
o strengths / advantages
o difficulties / disadvantages
of expressing congruence in a person-centred counselling relationship (including the reaction / response of the Speaker (client))
5. Supporting what you write with brief examples drawn from your domestic and/or work life, consider the circumstances when
o You have felt authentic / real
o You have behaved / typically behave in an authentic / real way
o You have felt inauthentic / phoney
o You have behaved / typically behave in an inauthentic / phoney way
6. Conclusions, including
o what insights about the core condition of genuineness you have gained as a result of writing this report
o what insights about the nature of person-centred counselling you have gained as a result of writing this report
o what insights about yourself you have gained as a result of writing this report
o what you feel satisfied with about the report, and what you feel least satisfied with about the report.
7. List of references, giving full bibliographical details, including author, year of publication, (title of article if in a journal), title of publication, name of publisher, place of publication.
Assignments for Certificate in Counselling: Essay preparation, Introduction, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
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