Assignment: Current Counseling Abilities
Practicing your skill is a great learning experience for you. This course is intended to be a safe place for you, the student, to look at yourself and see what your baseline abilities are with respect to the foundational counseling skills to be acquired in this course.Now that you have experienced and viewed your unique style of communicating and being present with a client, reflect on what you saw, felt, and heard. Review your transcript ad summary as much as you need to. Don't judge yourself harshly during this assignment. Simply observe where you are today, with the expectation of expanding and making progress with your counseling skills throughout the course.
By analyzing your transcripts and feedback, you will be able to experience your style and reflect on your strengths and area for development.Reflect on the following:Did you listen well? How can you tell?
Did you successfully engage the client? How do you know? What positive or negative feedback did you receive from the client?Did you offer advice?
How did you stay focused on the client?
What proportion of time did you talk compared with the amount of time the client athlete talked?
What, if anything, did you disclose too much of yourself rather than listening to your client?
Were there any surprises?
Identify some things you feel you did well, as well as things you think you need to work on as a counselor-in-training.Use your text as a guide and reference.