Study unit 7: dancing with change

Question 1

what might motivate people to change

Answer 1

People are motivated to change when the cost of staying the same and getting
the same outcome becomes too much, or when negative cycles have increased
to such an extent that the status quo becomes unbearable, is in danger of
collapse, or has collapsed.

Question 2

what does to counsel mean

Answer 2

To
counsel means to encourage people to make sense of their life experiences and
create meaningful aspirations.

Question 3

what is the prime counseling agent

Answer 3

The human interpersonal relationship is
the prime counselling agent of change, and not insight, reason or catharsis. In this
regard, clients are assisted by counsellors to achieve unconditional self-acceptance
instead of conditional self-esteem

Question 4

discuss the importance of process notes

Answer 4

process notes are a stepping stone
for the developing counsellor to integrate the multilayered complexities of a
counselling encounter. It also integrates and closes the encounter after a client
has left.

Process notes make it possible to share your views and perspectives on what
happened during the counselling encounter, firstly with yourself. Secondly, you
can share your cases more fully and in finer detail with your (future) supervisors
and trainers. In fact, they will probably be highly impressed with you that you
can produce such an in-depth report

Question 5

what are the core components of counseling

Answer 5

the core components of good counselling involve: self-awareness,
the ability to connect, a model of counselling that counsellors have worked out
for themselves, and consistency between their counselling approach and who
they are as a person

Question 6

what does listening communicate

Answer 6

In listening we demonstrate care that non-verbally communicates
to the other: ‘I value you. You matter’. This includes the basic human response
of comforting and consoling a distressed person.