Authentic Counselling Training

Certificate in Counselling: Assignments

[Under construction: 23 August 2004]

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Assignment 4
Tape and Commentary II

Purpose of the assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to review and analyse your counselling practice.

Tape selection

Review your skills practice sessions recorded on video tape, and select a 20 minute length of tape. The skills practice session during which it was recorded may be longer than 20 minutes.

The tape recording should show:

· An appropriate contract and opening.

· The establishing or maintenance of a counselling-type relationship.

· The use of appropriate counselling skills rather than having a conversation, or assisting the speaker with a monologue.

· An awareness of your own non-verbal communication.

· A respect for the speaker’s agenda.

· A respect for the speaker’s frame of reference.

· An attempt to help the speaker to find new understanding.

· An appropriate ending (if this fits within the 20 minute sequence).

The tape sequence should demonstrate your current use of counselling skills, and should show some evidence of competence. Discussion of any less-competent use of counselling skills will form an important part of your commentary. In choosing between taped interviews, choose one that demonstrates a range of skills.

Written commentary

Write a commentary of between 1,000 and 1,500 words regarding the interview. Write the number of words at the top of the commentary.

You are required to comment on your counselling skills practice, and how this relates to person centred counselling. In particular you need to:

· give an overview of the session;

· discuss the appropriateness of your counselling skills contract;

· describe any ethical issues surrounding the session;

· describe and identify the counselling skills you used, or attempted to use, and your reasons for doing so;

· comment on the outcome;

· comment on what you could have done which might have been more effective;

· comment on what other skills you might have used and to what purpose;

· describe what you did to establish a counselling-type relationship;

· describe what you did to stay within the speaker’s agenda and work within their frame of reference.

· 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.

· Appendix: transcript of interventions.

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