Clara Hill Helping Skills Summary

In chapter 3 of Clara Hill’s “Helping Skills” she discusses ethical issues to the helping process. Initially, my thoughts upon beginning this weeks reading was one of redundancy. The chapter title alone gave me the assumption of ethics, what else do I need to know about how to be ethical. Nevertheless, I realized how mistaken I was after reading the first page. I have a good amount of concerns and questions regarding this chapter. When Hill discussed the ethical principles and following the laws and rules of the profession, I could not help but reflect back to our 665 class the previous week. We discussed how one of the primary reasons helpers lose their license. Which tends to be due to the desire to help clients who might be coming in for …show more content…
Relating to the latter, Hill suggests that we as helpers have an obligation to the client to inform them we cannot guarantee they will be “cured”. When I read this, I could not help but think about what Yalom might say to that statement. It seems to me that he is overly confident in his practice and might disagree with Hill in that instance. I could be completely mistaken. Nevertheless, in chapter 20 of “The Gift of Therapy” Yalom discusses how his client Martin was annoying even to him and how he did not want to accommodate him. He then realized that is probably what others might think of Martin as well and that Martin really did want to change and Yalom was able to do better work with that realization. Additionally, Yalom mentions throughout the course of the chapters we have been assigned how people tend to come to him after reading his books and that they wonder if they will be good enough clients for him. In that way specifically, it appears to me that he might understand where Hill is coming from but might make the argument against telling them he wont be able to “cure” them if he did maintain them as a