Current Understanding of Counselling
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My current understanding of Counselling and Psychotherapy and its potential for change in the lives of clients.
The following essay will explain my current understanding of Counselling and Psychotherapy and its potential for change in the lives of clients. As I am not a professional Counsellor or Psychotherapist I am reliant on my own personal experience and the research I have undertaken.
Life is very busy for us these days. Most of the time we manage well enough with day-to-day things until something in life stops us. This might be something that happens directly to us or around us and we simply do not know how to cope. At this point, it is quite normal to ask advice from family, friends, peers, or even the family doctor. However, this does not always help for a myriad of reasons ranging from embarrassment to having nobody to talk to about it. Counselling and Psychotherapy can be useful in this situation. It is most successful when person seeking the help wants it to happen. (McLeod, 2013)
The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, (BACP, 2014) does not distinguish a difference in Counselling and Psychotherapy. It is an umbrella term to encompass the various different talking therapies. These different therapies can be effective in either the short term or long term to effectively change or enhance the wellbeing of clients.
Counselling and Psychotherapy is often used as a non-direct approach to watch and listen attentively to the client, or, as a more direct approach, asking questions which can lead to a specific conversation. Using either of these methods or a combination of both can help the therapist to help the client discover their difficulties and work through them together. Sometimes, what the client thinks is the problem, is actually not the problem at all. For example, a client comes for therapy because they are using drugs. The true issue is that they have suffered sexual abuse. Because they may have been told not to...
The following essay will explain my current understanding of Counselling and Psychotherapy and its potential for change in the lives of clients. As I am not a professional Counsellor or Psychotherapist I am reliant on my own personal experience and the research I have undertaken.
Life is very busy for us these days. Most of the time we manage well enough with day-to-day things until something in life stops us. This might be something that happens directly to us or around us and we simply do not know how to cope. At this point, it is quite normal to ask advice from family, friends, peers, or even the family doctor. However, this does not always help for a myriad of reasons ranging from embarrassment to having nobody to talk to about it. Counselling and Psychotherapy can be useful in this situation. It is most successful when person seeking the help wants it to happen. (McLeod, 2013)
The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, (BACP, 2014) does not distinguish a difference in Counselling and Psychotherapy. It is an umbrella term to encompass the various different talking therapies. These different therapies can be effective in either the short term or long term to effectively change or enhance the wellbeing of clients.
Counselling and Psychotherapy is often used as a non-direct approach to watch and listen attentively to the client, or, as a more direct approach, asking questions which can lead to a specific conversation. Using either of these methods or a combination of both can help the therapist to help the client discover their difficulties and work through them together. Sometimes, what the client thinks is the problem, is actually not the problem at all. For example, a client comes for therapy because they are using drugs. The true issue is that they have suffered sexual abuse. Because they may have been told not to...