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    This document provides an introduction to counseling skills. It defines counselors as professionals who empower individuals through mental health services and career guidance. Counseling is a private conversation where one person helps another resolve problems. Psychotherapy involves licensed mental health professionals helping patients change troubling emotions, thoughts, and behaviors through techniques like CBT, DBT, and family/couples therapy. Helpers are people without formal counseling qualifications who still use counseling skills, like social workers. The goals of using counseling skills are supportive listening, managing problem situations, problem management, altering poor skills, and helping clients reach self-actualization.

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    This document provides an introduction to counseling skills. It defines counselors as professionals who empower individuals through mental health services and career guidance. Counseling is a private conversation where one person helps another resolve problems. Psychotherapy involves licensed mental health professionals helping patients change troubling emotions, thoughts, and behaviors through techniques like CBT, DBT, and family/couples therapy. Helpers are people without formal counseling qualifications who still use counseling skills, like social workers. The goals of using counseling skills are supportive listening, managing problem situations, problem management, altering poor skills, and helping clients reach self-actualization.

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    INTRODUCTION

    Lecture‐1 Counselling Skills


    WHO ARE COUNSELORS?
    • Professional counseling is a professional relationship that empowers
    diverse individuals, families, and groups to accomplish mental health,
    wellness, education, and career goals. American Counseling
    Association (ACA)
    • Counselling is a purposeful, private conversation arising from the
    intention of one person (couple or family) to reflect on and resolve a
    problem in living, and the willingness of another person to assist in
    that endeavour. (Mcleod, 2013)
    WHAT IS PSYCHOTHERAPY?
    • Psychotherapy is a term for a variety of treatment techniques that aim to
    help a person identify and change troubling emotions, thoughts, and
    behavior.
    • Psychotherapy takes place with a licensed, trained mental health
    professional and a patient meeting one‐on‐one or with other patients in a
    group setting.
    ‐ CBT
    ‐ DBT
    ‐ ACT
    ‐ Family Therapy
    ‐ Couples Therapy
    ‐ Narrative Therapy
    WHO ARE PSYCHOTHERAPIST?
    WHO ARE HELPERS?
    • The term ‘helper’ is used in a more restricted sense to include all
    those people who offer counselling skills to other people, yet who are
    not qualified and accredited counsellors, psychotherapists or their
    equivalent.
    • For example, many social workers and probation officers are not accredited
    counsellors, yet make extensive use of counselling skills with their client
    populations.
    GOALS FOR USING COUNSELLING SKILLS
    1. Supportive Listening – Provide clients with a sense of being
    understood and affirmed
    2. Managing a problem situation – Helping client deal with a specific
    problem situation. Usually better than addressing the larger problem as
    a whole.
    3. Problem Management – With the help of the client, identifying way
    to manage problems. As some problems can be much larger and more
    complex.
    4. Altering poor skills – Identifying the skills/behaviour that contributes
    to the problem and working on improving/altering the skills.
    5. Bringing about a changed philosophy of life goal – Helping the client
    reach the level which can be termed ‘self‐actualizing/ fully functioning’
    ACTIVITY
    • CASE STUDY 1‐TOM
    • COMMUNICATION SKILLS

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