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I am very thankful for this experience counseling with adolescents. I have avoided working with adolescents because I am still quite young myself and was always anxious about the interaction and how they would respond to me. Essentially, the purpose of these videos was to develop a rapport with an adolescent and establish a functional counseling relationship. I was able to use listening skills that showed Matt that I was interested in what he was saying and was actually hearing him not just listening. Also, I was leaned towards him and giving him my full attention by showing eye contact. Furthermore, I people that showing Matt respect and genuineness was very important in the process of developing rapport. All of these …show more content…
Grades and academic achievement seemed to be something very important to Matt because he referenced them on his past, present, and future self-portrait. This led me to further discuss his grades and academic achievement with him. Matt is 17 years old and a junior in high school. I believe that this is an important time for Matt academically as he plans to attend college and has very high expectations of himself academically. I decided to try a solution focused brief therapy approach with Matt. We attempted to figure out what he was doing that allowed him to have grades that satisfied him and then take that information and discuss how presently and in the future he could use those same skills and techniques to help get his grades back to a place that allowed him to feel successful and comfortable. From talking with Matt about his plan to raise his grades he I believe that he relies strongly on friends at school as a support system. He stated that having people at school to help him that he could go to for support and to answer questions was extremely important to him. He also shared that Ms. McKinney was someone that he relied on for support and to keep him …show more content…
There are definitely things that I still need work on and I realized that I was extremely anxious to talk about suicide with Matt. I was very surprised when he mentioned this and did not feel that I knew exactly what to say. I was glad that I did have this experience though because it pushed me to realize that I am not always going to be prepared for everything that I will be dealing with and I need to always continue educating myself and learn how to work through and still progress when students present situations and concerns that I was not expecting. Although this situation was uncomfortable for me I believe outwardly I handled the situation well. Internally, I felt a sense of panic but I took a deep breath and allowed my client to share with me something that had been bothering him. I showed Matt that I was listening to him and understanding they way he felt. I made sure that he realized his feelings were ok for him to have and allowed him to share something that appeared to me he had been trying to hold in. After doing this I feel like Matt felt that he could trust me and that I was being genuine and present in our session. Although overwhelming to me I felt that this moved our counseling session in a positive direction. One of the stages of development that I believe is important to this therapeutic relationship would be Industry vs. Inferiority. Matt shared with me that when he isn’t doing well of
I am very thankful for this experience counseling with adolescents. I have avoided working with adolescents because I am still quite young myself and was always anxious about the interaction and how they would respond to me. Essentially, the purpose of these videos was to develop a rapport with an adolescent and establish a functional counseling relationship. I was able to use listening skills that showed Matt that I was interested in what he was saying and was actually hearing him not just listening. Also, I was leaned towards him and giving him my full attention by showing eye contact. Furthermore, I people that showing Matt respect and genuineness was very important in the process of developing rapport. All of these …show more content…
Grades and academic achievement seemed to be something very important to Matt because he referenced them on his past, present, and future self-portrait. This led me to further discuss his grades and academic achievement with him. Matt is 17 years old and a junior in high school. I believe that this is an important time for Matt academically as he plans to attend college and has very high expectations of himself academically. I decided to try a solution focused brief therapy approach with Matt. We attempted to figure out what he was doing that allowed him to have grades that satisfied him and then take that information and discuss how presently and in the future he could use those same skills and techniques to help get his grades back to a place that allowed him to feel successful and comfortable. From talking with Matt about his plan to raise his grades he I believe that he relies strongly on friends at school as a support system. He stated that having people at school to help him that he could go to for support and to answer questions was extremely important to him. He also shared that Ms. McKinney was someone that he relied on for support and to keep him …show more content…
There are definitely things that I still need work on and I realized that I was extremely anxious to talk about suicide with Matt. I was very surprised when he mentioned this and did not feel that I knew exactly what to say. I was glad that I did have this experience though because it pushed me to realize that I am not always going to be prepared for everything that I will be dealing with and I need to always continue educating myself and learn how to work through and still progress when students present situations and concerns that I was not expecting. Although this situation was uncomfortable for me I believe outwardly I handled the situation well. Internally, I felt a sense of panic but I took a deep breath and allowed my client to share with me something that had been bothering him. I showed Matt that I was listening to him and understanding they way he felt. I made sure that he realized his feelings were ok for him to have and allowed him to share something that appeared to me he had been trying to hold in. After doing this I feel like Matt felt that he could trust me and that I was being genuine and present in our session. Although overwhelming to me I felt that this moved our counseling session in a positive direction. One of the stages of development that I believe is important to this therapeutic relationship would be Industry vs. Inferiority. Matt shared with me that when he isn’t doing well of