Name: Beverley Brown
Week: 6
Date: 9th October 2013
LO 1.1 Differentiate between counselling and other helping activities
LO 3.1 Identify the qualifications required for working in counselling
settings
LO 4.1 Describe the purpose of personal reflection
LO 1.1 Today we talked about the differences in counselling a client as apposed to
helping people in our daily lives. Counselling a client is a one to one, trust building
relationship in a therapeutic way where boundaries of confidentiality and time are set in
place with a contract. The outcome and expectations should be positive.
Counselling skills are used with each other in any interaction, you can be just friends or
work in other areas such as the police or a teacher where you can give advice which can
be done in a parental way.
LO 3.1 We worked in pairs for this exercise, we learned that special qualities were
fundamental as well as certificates and qualifications. We used a spider chart
to demonstrate all of these requirements. In a counselling setting a good councilor would
dress appropriately, be empathetic, have moral qualities and use their SOLER. They
would have special training in their chosen field and know the referral process. They
would be self aware, know their own limits and understand the BACP
principals. They will be professional in a highly confidential way with
professionalism. They should also be congruent, have ethical principles and moral
qualities. It was good that we all had to think about these words, their meanings and
requirements so that we/I can identify what is required in a counselling setting and
practice them.
LO 4.1 Looking back at the triad exercise, where we did role play set in a student client
and councilor session with the third peer assessing the student/councilor (which was
Myself) and, given feedback, I leaned that I had leaned to far forward into the
clients...