Asia Hardin
Writing Assignment 1
Counseling Relationships and Couples Counseling Counseling Relationships: When you become a counselor you, want to be able to have a strong and stable relationship with your patient. Without having a strong connection with your patient, they might not feel as open to telling you how the feeling or even expressing themselves because you don't have any type of connection with them to show they that you care. I believe having a connection with your patient or really anyone is very helpful because you’ll be able to give your opinion or advice on the issue and the patient is able to take that feedback and actually use it, instead of them justing hearing and ignoring everything you said. You can also learn a …show more content…
In couples counseling you are in control, and you also have to be okay with couples being angry and expressing their angry verbally because if not you're not going to get anywhere. For example seeing my parents arguing and my dad yelling. Just sitting their and not hearing the angry coming from his voice, but listening to what is actually being said . Being to separate the angry tone from the actual words being said is what I believe is key to understanding the problem. When the first counselor talked about being “stronger than the problem” I thought this was such an important key to really understand what the couple is going through. You don't want to convince the couple that their at the end of their relationship and theres no hope in fixing. That’s not what couples counseling is, you want to help them fix their relationship and you want to be able to let them know there is hope. Having the couple use “ I feel” was a great way to get both partners to see and understand why their spouse is feeling a certain way about a situation. I believe that’s a great way for the couple to talk, without having to say a lot and the words they just said get lost along the way. Having short sentences, you're able tot pick up on the key words on why your spouse is so upset. From the video you can see that, the woman’s husband understand why she upset and he was able to
Writing Assignment 1
Counseling Relationships and Couples Counseling Counseling Relationships: When you become a counselor you, want to be able to have a strong and stable relationship with your patient. Without having a strong connection with your patient, they might not feel as open to telling you how the feeling or even expressing themselves because you don't have any type of connection with them to show they that you care. I believe having a connection with your patient or really anyone is very helpful because you’ll be able to give your opinion or advice on the issue and the patient is able to take that feedback and actually use it, instead of them justing hearing and ignoring everything you said. You can also learn a …show more content…
In couples counseling you are in control, and you also have to be okay with couples being angry and expressing their angry verbally because if not you're not going to get anywhere. For example seeing my parents arguing and my dad yelling. Just sitting their and not hearing the angry coming from his voice, but listening to what is actually being said . Being to separate the angry tone from the actual words being said is what I believe is key to understanding the problem. When the first counselor talked about being “stronger than the problem” I thought this was such an important key to really understand what the couple is going through. You don't want to convince the couple that their at the end of their relationship and theres no hope in fixing. That’s not what couples counseling is, you want to help them fix their relationship and you want to be able to let them know there is hope. Having the couple use “ I feel” was a great way to get both partners to see and understand why their spouse is feeling a certain way about a situation. I believe that’s a great way for the couple to talk, without having to say a lot and the words they just said get lost along the way. Having short sentences, you're able tot pick up on the key words on why your spouse is so upset. From the video you can see that, the woman’s husband understand why she upset and he was able to