WK 1 - Intro Flashcards
Teaching and instruction emphasises:
a) building rapport with clients
b) becoming a better coach
c) performance
c) performance
Across definitions of coaching, important themes of coaching include:
a) working collaboratively towards goals engaging client’s in developing personal growth
b) helping a client to set realistic goals
c) increase client competence by teaching them skills
a) working collaboratively towards goals engaging client’s in developing personal growth
- Three common features across coaching definitions are:
1. Collaborative + egalitarian relationship;
2. Focus on solutions and goal attainment;
3. A systematic process emphasising ongoing self-directed learning & personal growth.
What is an important feature of counselling relative to coaching?
a) counselling focuses on the relationship with the client relative to coaching
b) counselling focuses on achieving competence and performance towards self-selected goals
c) an emphasis on wellness, wellbeing, and mental health which is not necessarily the focus of coaching
c) an emphasis on wellness, wellbeing, and mental health which is not necessarily the focus of coaching.
In reality, coaching can often include assistance with problems and working on “deficits” towards “normal” functioning but counselling does not focus on capabilities and building strengths, it only focuses on working with “deficits”
T/F
F - the lines are muddled; coaching and counselling both focus on “deficits -> norm” and “increasing strengths & capabilities” in their own way.
Coaching could be helpful for…
a) Teenagers who are refusing to go to school
b) Drunk driving education program
c) Young people at high risk of developing psychosis
d) Stroke rehabilitation
e) All of the above
e) all of these clinical settings.
Which of the following is not an important principle for adult learning?
a) Reassurance of continual progress
b) Can reflect on the learning experience
c) Developing autonomy
d) Unique life experiences and knowledge
a) Reassurance of continual progress.
Which of the following is most true about coaching research?
a) While there is an increase in coaching research, more within subjects studies are needed to demonstrate the efficacy of coaching
b) While there is an increase in coaching research, there are still insufficient RCTs to draw conclusions from
c) There has been a decrease in coaching research over the last 30 years
b) While there is an increase in coaching research, there are still insufficient RCTs to draw conclusions from.
- need more betw subject info; there is already plenty of w/in subject info which doesn’t help external validity.
- also need a single def to increase consistency.
Coaching has been shown to:
a) Increase self-reported well-being
b) Reduce onset of chronic medical conditions in organisational settings
c) Reduce stress, depression, and anxiety
d) Increase resilience and improve decision making
e) all of the above
a) Increase self-reported well-being
c) Reduce stress, depression, and anxiety
d) Increase resilience and improve decision making
Factors that influence change are stable and always consistent.
T/F
F - the factors that influence change can themselves change.
Carl Rogers (‘50s) proposed that the most fundamental aspect of a counsellor/client relationship is that the client perceives us as…
warm, empathetic and genuine.
- integral in stage 1 of the counselling process (develop trust and engagement).
We start to allow trust to develop between
our client and ourselves by using a number of important skills, including…
- integral in stage 1 of the counselling process (develop trust and engagement).
micro skills, active listening, reflecting (both non/verbal content), summarising, allowing silence, empathy, our own body language, probing, etc.
Empathy involves offering a person support and emotional comfort because they are in some distress or pain.
T/F
F - This is sympathy.
- empathy involves entering and understanding the persons experiences.
- includes reflection of non/verbal communication.
What warmth and how does it differ from genuineness?
- warmth includes the idea that we both want to gain each others respect and acceptance.
- Genuineness i.e. authenticity = we respect people for who they are, for their uniqueness and individuality - unconditionally.
Other basic features of helping include:
a) Giving information
b) Concreteness
c) Immediacy
d) challenge
b) concreteness: getting the person we are working with to be specific;
c) immediacy: getting our client to focus on the ‘here and now’ and not
the past or the imagined future;
d) challenge: pointing out discrepancies between our client’s view of themselves or their world, and how it seems to us as a counsellor.
- a) Giving information is part of stage 2 of the counselling process.
The content of counselling is determined by ______; the process is determined by ______.
a) client; client
b) counsellor; counsellor
c) counsellor; client
d) client; counsellor
d) client; counsellor
- counsellor can influence content with appropriate questions/probing/responses, but not determine it.
- as counsellors we shape the process, to ensure that sessions have a structure, that there is time for us to summarise, for our clients to say what they want to, etc. Hence the 6 stages of process.
