Being able to reflect and critically evaluate the outcome of the session plays an important part in improving the skills of the counsellor both in the session and outside of the session, planning better sessions providing the best service to the client.
For the first half of this role play, I experienced the same problem similar to the one during the trial role play which is not listening to the client. I was trying to ask my questions in accordance to the script which resulted in me not actively listening to the client when she did not follow the script which brings me to the next point of not enough summarising and reflection of feelings.
I was aware of what is happening within me, and tried to focus on what the client is talking but due …show more content…
So, I am just curious, what does your family members mean to you?” Maybe by phrasing it in this manner it can help ease the transition between the stages.
There was one point in time when the client talks for quite a long period of time (line 18-22) and I think I could have interrupted her at line 20 and told her to focus on how she places her expectation on herself before she continues to talk about how she copes previously as I think it would be more important for her to know and be aware and reflect on how setting expectations on herself is affecting her ability to cope in this situation rather than knowing her old coping skills.
As for the empathetic challenge (line 17), I think I had done it too early in the session and even if I wanted to, I could have summarise before the empathetic challenge. I could have, instead asked a meaning question on how her family mean to her as she is willing to maintain it at her own expense or I could have stayed and focus on how she sets up the expectation to take on everything on herself which could be more beneficial to the client as she reflects rather than empathetically challenging her this early in the session without sufficient information and
For the first half of this role play, I experienced the same problem similar to the one during the trial role play which is not listening to the client. I was trying to ask my questions in accordance to the script which resulted in me not actively listening to the client when she did not follow the script which brings me to the next point of not enough summarising and reflection of feelings.
I was aware of what is happening within me, and tried to focus on what the client is talking but due …show more content…
So, I am just curious, what does your family members mean to you?” Maybe by phrasing it in this manner it can help ease the transition between the stages.
There was one point in time when the client talks for quite a long period of time (line 18-22) and I think I could have interrupted her at line 20 and told her to focus on how she places her expectation on herself before she continues to talk about how she copes previously as I think it would be more important for her to know and be aware and reflect on how setting expectations on herself is affecting her ability to cope in this situation rather than knowing her old coping skills.
As for the empathetic challenge (line 17), I think I had done it too early in the session and even if I wanted to, I could have summarise before the empathetic challenge. I could have, instead asked a meaning question on how her family mean to her as she is willing to maintain it at her own expense or I could have stayed and focus on how she sets up the expectation to take on everything on herself which could be more beneficial to the client as she reflects rather than empathetically challenging her this early in the session without sufficient information and