Counselling Assignment

                                                                                     PART 1

1. Potential areas of my life experience that may be sources of knowledge, skills and experience that may be relevant to counselling-
2. Knowledge, skills and experience that I acquired as a result of the life experiences that I have identified in counselling-

1. What I brought with me from my previous experience that might be a strength or an  asset in relation to my work as a counselling skills user-

 Good listening skills- In all the above mentioned cases I have developed very good listening skills which I believe plays a crucial role in the counselling world. Whenever you visit a doctor it becomes very important for him to at first understand the patient’s problem and then to give medicine’s accordingly same is the case in counselling. If you take both my sister’s break-up story and my friend’s failure story they both were around 20-30 minutes long so during that time it becomes very important to “listen” with full attention.

Paraphrasing- I have inculcated the ability to rephrase a long para into a short and crisp manner which is very crucial in the field of counselling. Your client during counselling sessions will not directly state you the crucial points instead you have to listen very carefully and paraphrase the long stories into a short and meaningful form which I tried to do in both the above mentioned cases.

 Empathy- In counselling it becomes very important to empathize which is all about stepping inside other person’s shoes. Let’s take the example of my friend’s case of failure so at that point of time I could actually feel for my friend’s situation because I myself have failed during my 9th standard final exams which helped me a lot to help my friend to get out of that terrible situation.

D) Things that I have brought that might be a hindrance or distraction in the field of counselling-

 My sister’s break-up case- My sister’s break-up case is a true example of undue-advantage that people take from some other person’s faith on you. So from that case I assume that this world should not be trusted upon at all, so if a person approaches me in future for counselling I may not trust his/her stories and in counselling trusting your client is very crucial.

 After watching movies like Oh my god- So in this movie people are trying to make money by taking the name of various gods like ram, Shiva, Hanuman etc. which once again acts as a hindrance to the aspect of “faith” in this society which once again can create trust issues with my client.

                                                                              PART 2

1. By yourself (or with someone who knows you well and whom you trust to give you honest feedback), identify the following:

1.1 Things that people do that really bother me-

 Over-interference of someone in my personal life- I do not like those people whom over-interfere in my life. E.g. I do not drink liquor but once one of my uncle told me to bring liquor for him and one of my friend saw that bottle of liquor in my room and he started passing un-necessary comments which I never liked.

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