Vignette 1, Keisha
The open-ended question I used for my client Keisha is: Why do you feel if your mother had only pushed you harder that your life might have been much better?
The paraphrase example that I used from the vignettes is: Keisha was on academic probation and had other personal issues as well. Keisha feels that her life is miserable due to her childhood upbringing because of her mother.
The reflection of what my client is feeling from the vignette: Keisha feels that her life is in a mess and she is blaming her mother for her downfalls that are happening in her present life.
In my interactions with this particular client I believe it’s an art and a science of a counselor/client relationship:
The art of helping other lies within our ability to form a relationship with another human being because we have made a commitment to self, an examination with personal motives for wanting to help others, and a realization that the helping process involves being present and attentive to clients through a variety of clinical approaches and techniques . It is in our nature to help and assist people when they need us whether it’s our family member, neighbors, friends, co- workers, or clients. Therefore, in this profession as a counselor it will be automated for us to be loving and caring to our client’s situations.
The science of helping means that we make treatment decisions in our work with clients . Counseling combines the art of understanding and “being with” another person with the research basis of what works . With the combination of the both art and science one common factor is a shared belief in how the problem originated . The reason I feel that my interactions with the clients from the vignette was a combination of the both is because from a counselor aspects it can help build the relationship between the counselor and the client.
References
Cooper, J. B. (2010). Counseling Microskills. In B. T. Erford, Orientation to the Counseling Profession Advocacy, Ethics,
The paraphrase example that I used from the vignettes is: Keisha was on academic probation and had other personal issues as well. Keisha feels that her life is miserable due to her childhood upbringing because of her mother.
The reflection of what my client is feeling from the vignette: Keisha feels that her life is in a mess and she is blaming her mother for her downfalls that are happening in her present life.
In my interactions with this particular client I believe it’s an art and a science of a counselor/client relationship:
The art of helping other lies within our ability to form a relationship with another human being because we have made a commitment to self, an examination with personal motives for wanting to help others, and a realization that the helping process involves being present and attentive to clients through a variety of clinical approaches and techniques . It is in our nature to help and assist people when they need us whether it’s our family member, neighbors, friends, co- workers, or clients. Therefore, in this profession as a counselor it will be automated for us to be loving and caring to our client’s situations.
The science of helping means that we make treatment decisions in our work with clients . Counseling combines the art of understanding and “being with” another person with the research basis of what works . With the combination of the both art and science one common factor is a shared belief in how the problem originated . The reason I feel that my interactions with the clients from the vignette was a combination of the both is because from a counselor aspects it can help build the relationship between the counselor and the client.
References
Cooper, J. B. (2010). Counseling Microskills. In B. T. Erford, Orientation to the Counseling Profession Advocacy, Ethics,
References: Cooper, J. B. (2010). Counseling Microskills. In B. T. Erford, Orientation to the Counseling Profession Advocacy, Ethics, Essential Professional Foundation (pp. 170-171). Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education. Erford, B. T. (2014). Orientation to the counseling Profession: Advocacy, Ethics, and Essential Professional Foundations (Second ed.). Upper Saddle, New Jersey: Pearson Education.