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Training Program in Counselling Psychology-Day 9

The document outlines a training program focused on basic counselling skills, emphasizing key techniques such as attending, silence, reflecting, paraphrasing, clarifying, and building rapport. It includes activities for self-reflection on motivations for becoming a counsellor and mindfulness in listening. The document also provides examples and exercises to enhance understanding of these counselling skills.

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Training Program in Counselling Psychology-Day 9

The document outlines a training program focused on basic counselling skills, emphasizing key techniques such as attending, silence, reflecting, paraphrasing, clarifying, and building rapport. It includes activities for self-reflection on motivations for becoming a counsellor and mindfulness in listening. The document also provides examples and exercises to enhance understanding of these counselling skills.

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Training Program in

Counselling Psychology
Day 9
Basic Counselling Skills
Self Reflection Work

What’s your motivation to become a counsellor?


Activity Time

Tell us are you mindfull or mindful all the time?


Key Points

1. Attending
2. Silence
3. Reflecting and Paraphrasing
4. Clarifying and the use of questions
5. Focussing
6. Building Rapport
7. Summarizing
8. Immediacy
Attending in counselling means being in the company of someone else and giving
Attending that person your full attention, to what they are saying or doing, valuing them as
worthy individuals.

Silence can be particularly powerful in the counselling space. By encouraging


a patient or client to control the dialogue and determine the pace, flow of
Silence feelings and direction of thoughts it can assist in building a trusting,
supportive relationship.

Reflecting in counselling is part of the ‘art of listening’. It is making


Reflecting sure that the client knows their story is being listened to.

This is achieved by the helper/counsellor by both repeating and


Paraphrasing feeding a shorter version of their story back to the client. This
known as 'paraphrasing'.
Clarifying & Building
Focussing Summarizing Immediacy
Questioning Rapport

Questions in counselling Focusing in counselling Building rapport with Summaries in Using immediacy means
are classed as a basic involves making clients in counselling is counselling are longer that the therapist
skill. The counsellor decisions about what important, whatever paraphrases. They reveals how they
uses open questions to issues the client wants model of counselling the condense or crystallise themselves are feeling in
clarify his or her to deal with. counsellor is working the essence of what the response to the client.
understanding of what with. client is saying and
the client is feeling. Concentrate on the feeling. Key skills for focussing
central issues! Sense of having a attention in order to
Avoid leading connection with the Summing up main challenge defensiveness!
questions! person! themes!
Try Answering …

1. Appropriate Eye contact and affirming verbals falls under………………

2. Paraphrase this - Client : ‘My father is very ill and I am worried. He lives a long way away and I will have to get the train
to see him. I really cannot afford the fare as I have very little money at the moment.’

3. Client (clenching her fists): ‘I don’t know why my father chose to live so far away from me when he knew how ill he was
going to become.’

Counsellor : ‘You seem ………………………………

Client : ‘I am. I now have to travel halfway across the country to see him. He is so selfish.’
Try Answering…
4. I just feel such despair in you when you talk about this; You're in a tough spot here; I can feel the pain you feel. These lines
shows?

5. Client - ‘Tom has always been selfish.’

Counsellor : ………………… How will you clarify?

Client : ‘Tom is my father’s name.’

6. ‘Are you feeling sad today?’

‘How are you feeling today?’ - Which one of them is close ended and which one is open ended?
Any Questions
Self Reflection Work

Try being mindful of how actively do you listen and how much your mind wanders
during conversations. Make a record summary.

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