Assignment: Advanced communication skills and lay counseling for Educators
Question 1:
1.1) Critically discuss the stages and phases in the helping process and how the school environment can be improved in order to ensure mental health of all involved stakeholders.
1.2 Explain how you will communicate with parents in a trustworthy manner. Think of a situation at school and write a short case study with fictional names etc.
Question 2
Read the statement and then answer the question that follows
"Wellness is much more than merely physical health, exercise or nutrition. It is the full integration of states of physical, mental and spiritual well-being"
2.1) Describe the different types of well-being that is mentioned above.
2.2) Define a healthy school and discuss what a healthy school focuses on.
Question 3 "the counselor must be in possession of good communication skills. This refers to skills which result in high-quality interpersonal relationships, skills to communicate situation-appropriate knowledge and skills to the counselee"
There are certain perceptions we may hold with regards to communication which do not correspond with actually takes in communication practice.
Reflect on the statement above by focusing on communication myths versus reality.
3) Discuss critically how myths can be differentiated from reality.
Technical structure
- Content page
- Introduction
- Assignment lay-out
- In-text referrals
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
Guidelines for completion of assignment
- Read the questions carefully and make sure that your answer is relevant to the questions asked.
- Type in Ariel 11,double spacing and 10 typed pages
- Use at least 10new source of information(books ,scientific articles, internet sources etc) sources must not be older than 2005
- You may also extensively use the provided books, chapters in books and journal articles in this study guide, imbedded in the reader.
- Make sure your reference in text as well as your bibliography is correct and is in NWU Harvard Referencing style.
- The aim of the assignment is not to the reproduction of existing material but to ascertain whether you have the ability to integrate existing texts, add your own interpretation and or critique of the texts and offer a creative solution to existing problems.