Reflective Report

Reflection as a Counsellor. This was a learning curve in for me in this course and I enjoyed been the counsellor even though, I was a little worried about this assessment session been that it was my first client assessment. I was mindful of my report, because the context of why the assessment and/or test were administered is important. Gersten (2013) highlights the importance of having competency to administer, score and interpret the result of a test to explain what the scores mean. Otherwise, the sores can be vague and ambiguous to the client with no practical utility. I also think that with experience, my own personal competency will increase. Using certain tools over and over again in practice will assist me in gaining confidence in interpreting …show more content…
Oh boy, I must say it was not easy been a client. First and for most I had share my results with the consultant who will have to interpret it, that was scary for me. As a client, I felt defensive especially when the results were explained to me as I had a different idea to what some statement that were used meant. I came to counseling because I had reached a point to understand that there must be a change in my life and that I was not capable alone of achieving such a change. It is important to note that the counsellor supported me, based on the knowledge, skill, or a new insight into my issue was helpful. I thought that meeting with the consultant during the second session, I was more comfortable and maybe that could be as a result of the counsellor listening and asking questions to clarify what I was saying and asking me more question to ensure that we were both on the same page. Furthermore, the counsellor used reflecting skills when she wants to explore the fact deeply, feelings, and meanings in the problem. Young (2013) stated that reflecting feelings is important and valuable tools of the helper, because it suggests to the client that you recognized how affected they are by their problems. As well, reflecting meaning allows the client to recognize that his or her story is not fact but instead of a perspective. More so, I really enjoyed the part where the counsellor told me that we were partners in this counseling sessions as we will be working …show more content…
The assessment may be constructed correctly, but if the language is difficult for the client to work with it just won’t be reliable. For instance, giving a test outside one’s norm group leads to errors in scoring and misinterpretation of results. Moreover, one would also contend that treatment interventions based on the results of such tests have been inappropriate, or possibly even harmful, to the respective client, and therefore likely to cross the line into unethical practice. Gersten (2013) notes that the manuals for respective assessment tools generally provide information about how the normative group was selected and whether it is representative of the population with which one would want to make comparisons. Attention to such matters is incumbent upon all who propose to act in the best interest of their clients. Interestingly, Gersten notes that religion and sexual orientation are rarely considered in test standardization samples. That may have been appropriate in an era when the vast majority of the population was of Judeo-Christian persuasion, but one would have to imagine that the widely divergent worldviews that are represented in the broader North American, and maybe more specifically, Canadian context, would warrant consideration in selecting standardized population samples. Likewise, as previously