Counseling Skills Essay - 1034 Words

The three concepts I have chosen to identify for this book report assignment are, basic empathy, motivation, and reframing. I feel that those concepts are important for counsellors to have as skils. The first concept i will be discussing is empthy, which is discussed in Chapter six (Shebib, 2003). Empathy is the ability to correctly interpret another persons feelings to show them you understand. So, empathy is not something we have, but something we do. Empathy is a skill and an attitude and not a feeling (sympathy is a feeling). It is about being able and willing to understand another person from their own point of view, without your own thoughts, feelings, opinions and judgements getting in the way of this understanding. This†¦show more content†¦CLIENT: Yeah very frustrated and mad that shes hiding from me. COUNSELLOR: It sounds like you would like this frienship to work out. (In triad quote, 2006) As you can see from this example, the counsellor has summarized expressed feelings from the client. The second concept I will be discussing is motivation, which is one of the five empowering activities discussed in chapter seven (Shebib, 2003). Motivation is an important concept when it comes to counselling because it can lead into change for the client. A counsellor is key for inhibiting change in a client, but most importantly the client has to involve their commitment in the change they would like to see. According to Shebib (1993) Change is stressful because it requires giving up established patterns of behaviour or thinking, and clients will differ in the extent to which they have the skill or energy to take the associated risks (p.196). Also, there are many problems associated with movitating clients such as: lazy clients, clients in denial, involuntary, ambivalent, energized, and burnt-out clients. 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