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Therapeutic Modalities (CA3)

Topic #6 (Psychological and Emotional Aspect)

 Counseling
Counseling is defined as a professional activity helping individual groups or restore their
Wcapacity for psychological, emotional and social functioning and creating an environment
favorable for the attainment of these goals.

Psychological Skills and Characteristics of Counseling

 Empathy

 It is the ability to perceive the client’s feelings and to demonstrate accurate


perception of the client.

 It is the merely ‘putting oneself in the client’s shoes’. When the client feels
understood, a sense of trust or ’rapport’ is developed.

 Warmth
 It is called ‘unconditional positive regard’. It involves accepting and caring about
the client as a person, regardless of any evaluation or prejudices on the client
behavior or thoughts.

 It is the most often conveyed though our non-verbal behavior or bodily gestures.

 Respect
 The counselor shows his utmost respect to the client by listening in silence and
giving the opportunity to design his own solutions to the problem.

 Congruence
 It is called as ’genuineness or being honest’ and authentic in dealing with the
client. It is showing real concern rather than focusing on techniques during sessions.

 Confidentiality
 This means that anything discussed during counseling sessions is held absolutely
private and not to be discussed anywhere.

 This contract should be held sacred so as to maintain the client’s trust and enable
him to disclose sensitive matters to the counselor without fear of any breach of
confidentiality.

Pattern of Counseling Session:

1. Introduction: First 10 minutes


 Greet the client warmly.
 Smile and shake hands.
 Escort to the counseling room.
 Explain how the session is going to be.
 This is the time to develop rapport.
2. Information gathering: about 20 minutes
 Know the reason for consultation.
 Client can start anywhere
 Counselor may take notes
 Clients need to do almost all of the talking
 Counselor may ask open questions or use technique clarifying, rephrasing,
focusing, reflecting, reality testing, etc.

3. Discussion/ Counselor Input:


 Counselor tells the client what he thinks the client is saying.
 Counselor develops a list of concerns.
 Prioritize problems and which one to work on first.
 Client will provide plans of action to work on specific problem.

4. Conclusion:
 Motivate the client that “he can do it”
 End session on a positive note.
 Client should be able to list down things that he has to look forward to over the
next few days. If not, this is a red flag for suicide.

When to break Confidentiality?

1. Children are being neglected or abused


2. Appearance in court as a witness
3. Client expressed plan to commit suicide
4. Client expressed plan to harm others.

TOLENTINO, CJ

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