This journal will be repeated content due to the continuation of last week’s class.
This week we looked at a real situation of implementing ‘experiential therapy’. This model indicated that the counselor views themselves as both counsellor and the client. This addresses that the client can address hidden/ subconscious issues through role playing. The T.E.D talk video on emotional intelligence, showed the EQ was the ability to understand how to work with people and understand your own feelings, this boils down to your people, social and self-skills. I was shocked to see that a high EQ was more than being empathetic. Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes is putting your experiences and bias on their situation, real social perspective taking, …show more content…
The key difference that I pointed out was the counselor would highlight certain feelings and emotions then mirror them back. The textbook stated positive reflection helps clients reflect on positive emotions and feelings. It’s important to reflect positive feelings with therapeutic lifestyle changes. If a counsellor does this, the clients will experience and understand their emotional state more fully and talk in more depth about their feelings. The counselor in this case study helped the mother stop shaming herself for her thoughts and helped her understand and accept her feelings and clearly stated that there are no bad feelings. This opened the conversation to comparing the mother’s emotions to other parents but placing empathy on the fact that she is being a parent that is suffering from a mental illness is much harder to do, in that sense the consular empathized she was being a stronger parent than the average. I was really interested in the section of the session that got the client to picture depression as a human sitting in a chart in front of them. I would love to master a skill like that, because it is such a different perspective on viewing your feelings and …show more content…
For example, I can say to baby X are you feeling sad. I will show a sad face, following a question; do you want a hug? Show open arms. I have to express feelings very basically but it is so important to develop a healthy send of emotional intelligence of them understanding how to recognize their emotions. When I had placement with preschoolers I wish I learned how to rightly state feelings with them, instead of ‘generalizing’ them. Feelings is a key topic when working with children and when I observe my process of growing as an early childhood education
This week we looked at a real situation of implementing ‘experiential therapy’. This model indicated that the counselor views themselves as both counsellor and the client. This addresses that the client can address hidden/ subconscious issues through role playing. The T.E.D talk video on emotional intelligence, showed the EQ was the ability to understand how to work with people and understand your own feelings, this boils down to your people, social and self-skills. I was shocked to see that a high EQ was more than being empathetic. Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes is putting your experiences and bias on their situation, real social perspective taking, …show more content…
The key difference that I pointed out was the counselor would highlight certain feelings and emotions then mirror them back. The textbook stated positive reflection helps clients reflect on positive emotions and feelings. It’s important to reflect positive feelings with therapeutic lifestyle changes. If a counsellor does this, the clients will experience and understand their emotional state more fully and talk in more depth about their feelings. The counselor in this case study helped the mother stop shaming herself for her thoughts and helped her understand and accept her feelings and clearly stated that there are no bad feelings. This opened the conversation to comparing the mother’s emotions to other parents but placing empathy on the fact that she is being a parent that is suffering from a mental illness is much harder to do, in that sense the consular empathized she was being a stronger parent than the average. I was really interested in the section of the session that got the client to picture depression as a human sitting in a chart in front of them. I would love to master a skill like that, because it is such a different perspective on viewing your feelings and …show more content…
For example, I can say to baby X are you feeling sad. I will show a sad face, following a question; do you want a hug? Show open arms. I have to express feelings very basically but it is so important to develop a healthy send of emotional intelligence of them understanding how to recognize their emotions. When I had placement with preschoolers I wish I learned how to rightly state feelings with them, instead of ‘generalizing’ them. Feelings is a key topic when working with children and when I observe my process of growing as an early childhood education