Study unit 6: the dance of attending

Question 1

define a psychological crisis

Answer 1

as a perception of an intolerable difficulty that
exceeds the limits of a person’s normal coping resources and abilities. Crises
represent severely stressful events that challenge a person’s coping resources,
jeopardise an individual’s sense of emotional homeostasis, create psychological
distress and cause individuals to perceive themselves as unable to effectively
manage the problem they are facing

Question 2

what are the key aims of crises intervention

Answer 2

key aims of crisis intervention is to ensure the physical and emotional safety
of those in crisis, to provide them with an opportunity to ventilate and to assure
them of the validity of their emotions and reactions, and to prepare them for
the possible consequences and aftermath of crises

Question 3

what may disaster support include according to NSW

Answer 3

•• the basic human response of comforting and consoling a distressed person;
•• protection from threat or distress as far as possible;
•• furnishing immediate care for the physical necessities;
•• providing goal orientation and support for specific reality-based tasks;
•• facilitating reunions with loved ones with similar anxieties;
•• sharing the experience;
•• linking the person to systems of support and sources of help that will be
ongoing, and
•• facilitating the beginning of some sense of mastery

Question 4

list some principles of crises intervention

Answer 4

•• restoration or partial improvement of coping;
•• immediate problem-solving assistance;
•• client competency that emphasises the clients’ own restorative powers to
deal with the crisis, allowing them to make their own decisions as much as
possible;
•• secondary prevention of potential negative effects of the crisis, for example
life skills training to deal with the consequences of the crisis (for example of
HIV infection, suicidality or loss and bereavement), and
•• focusing on problem-solving. As crisis intervention is a short-term helping
process, the aim is to assist people in crisis to restructure their coping levels
in an appropriate manner within a relatively short space of time.

Question 5

define counselling according to Johnson

Answer 5

a structured conversation aimed at facilitating a clients quality of life in the face of adversity.

Question 6

what is the main aim of counselling

Answer 6

to create an emotionally safe space and an accepting caring relationship in which the client can explore discover and clarify ways of living more satisfyingly and resourcefully

Question 7

what characteristics does counselling have

Answer 7

permission to speak

respect for difference

confidentiality

affirmation

Question 8

What are the outcomes of counselling according to McLeod

Answer 8

1. resolution of original problem in living which includes achieving understanding, arriving at personal acceptance and taking action to change situation
2. learning
3. social inclusion

Question 9

what is the purpose of counselling

Answer 9

insight to origin and development of emotional difficulties
relating with others in positive and meaningful ways
self awareness
self actualisation or indiviuation
state of higher personal/ spiritual awareness
acquisition of social & interpersonal skills
cognitive change of irrational thought patterns
behaviour change of maladaptive patterns of behaviour
empowerment
restitution
generitivity in caring for others

Question 10

what are qualities a counsellor should possess

Answer 10

self awareness and acceptance
ability to form a connection with clients
possess a model of counselloring that they have worked out themselves
have sufficient degree of consistancy between counselling approach and who they are as a person.

Question 11

what is meant by counselling alliance

Answer 11

refers to the interpersonal relationship of counselling which entails agreement over goals of counselling , mutual understanding of tasks and good relationship between client and counsellor.

Question 12

counselling aims clients to

Answer 12

gain sense of personal ownership towards mental and emotional care.
explore accountability for health
find safe emotional expression in context of impartial witness
explore meaning to uncomfortable thoughts ,adversity or problems
gain orientation to growth

Question 13

list some influencing skills

Answer 13

Giving directives
This is when the counsellor tells the client what to do by giving instructions

Expression of content
providing the client with basic coping
strategies after a trauma, giving opinions, making suggestions and supplying
feedback

Question 14

What are the qualities needed with presence

Answer 14

Empathy
Congruence, realness, genuineness
Non possessive warmth and acceptance

Question 15

Define empathy according to Rogers

Answer 15

It’s the ability to sense the clients private world as our own

Question 16

What does realness genuineness and congruence involve

Answer 16

Means to be human and yourself with emotional limitations

Genuineness refers to a integration of our feelings words actions and communicating the realness to person..

Question 17

What does non possessive warmth and acceptance mean

Answer 17

This means to have unconditional positive regard

Where acceptance mean not showing either disapproval or approval of clients

Question 18

What does listening involve in counseling

Answer 18

The ability of counsellors to capture and understand the messages clients communicate as they tell their story whether the message is verbal or non verbal

Question 19

What are the phases of counselling

Answer 19

Checking in 
Contexts of engagement
Presence
Listening and sensing 
Co explore
Shift 
Checking out 
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