Counseling Essay

about providing fundamental support to students. Throughout my undergrad and work experiences I have had opportunities to help students in the areas of Financial Aid, Academic Advising and Career Development. I believe I am right for the Educational Counseling: Student Affairs program. My life experiences have given me the passion I need to be a professional counselor. I am passionate in my need to help students and I know I can positively influence a student’s…

part of the treatment team and are viewed to be “essential leadership personnel in the RI process” (Ryan et al., 2011). RTI allows school counselors the opportunity to provide students with a “much earlier intervention and insight into students’ counseling needs” (Ryan et al., 2011). RTI also allows student counselors the opportunity to work with students and provide them with “personal/social and career objectives” that are included in the “academic curriculum objectives” and allows them the…

Does the client have the right to access their record/chart/files? Patient records in custody of individual health care Providers in statute, C.R.S. § 25-1-802. Yes, Clients receiving mental health counseling are allowed access to their records, although this does not include the counselor’s personal notes or any information that could be harmful to the client. If so, how? Client Access, (ACA, 2014, B.6.e.) The client only needs to make a reasonable…

time feel like there are fulfilling God’s plan (Niles & Harris-Bowlsbey, p. 87). Some might say that finding an enjoyable career can be good for the soul. Deboarah Bloch agrees with this statement, she states “career counseling is spiritual counseling in two ways: career counseling helps students see the underlying order in the otherwise random-seeming universe; and counselors bring to their students their own sense of the wholeness of the person. This sense of wholeness means not only keeping…

It would be difficult to do marriage counseling. How does a therapist not feel like it is their fault if the marriage fails? It takes skill to learn how to just be with people in their pain. I feel like it is my responsibility to ease their pain and help them figure out an alternative plan of action. I would want to continue to try to keep them together and work towards saving the marriage. Having gone through marriage counseling myself and feeling the pain of it not being effective, I…

then once again doing sales and retail and marketing before deciding on becoming a teacher. When asked, Colin revealed his career decision was based on his desire to coach football. I see this as an example of the Person- Environment Correspondence Counseling because of Dawis's and Lofquist's key point: “individual needs are most important in determining an individual's fit into work environment”. His desire to coach and his communication abilities gained while doing sales along with the…

play an essential role in students’ success, but there are not enough of them to do so with every student. I agree with the points that Posnick-Goodwin makes in her article. The first point I agree with Posnick-Goodwin is the idea that, “Effective counseling programs are important to the school climate and a crucial element in improving student achievement.” When a student is in times of distress, it is crucial that they have someone to guide them down the tough road ahead of them. That someone…

communication boundaries. Perdrix et al. (2012) demonstrated the long-term benefits of career counseling. Specifically, participants experienced an increase in decision-making confidence and were more likely to implement career-related goals. Similarly, Hughes et al. (2013) argued that the life-design approach to narrative career counseling is a sufficient alternative to traditional career counseling approaches. Likewise, Savickas (2013) discussed the life-design approach for individuals…

As a Christian counselor, we are not supposed to confront the client sin in their lives. They are making the first step already coming to counseling to seek help to gain full control of their lives again. They already know there are problems and they are coming to a counselor to seek the proper guidance and help. When a client is coming to counseling the first thing the counselor needs to do after over the process and paperwork is to be creating a strong relationship with the client by getting…

confirm so there as to be an assessment done to see if this is proper diagnosis. First to help Mary is build a relationship of trust first so she would be willing to talk to the counselor. This is very important because she is being referred for counseling for part of her discharge plan from the local psychiatric. After building a trust with Mary and if she willing to open up it is important to get to know her. Maybe first by seeing how she feels about herself, but not pushing her to talk about…