Constructive Confrontation In Counseling

I believe counseling is a collaborative partnership between client and counselor. Furthermore, this collaborative partnership is built from trust and acceptance of both client and counselor. I hope in conjunction with clients to understand the issues and concerns so to help them tap into their wisdom, creativity, and strengths to meet their current challenges. I believe in a comprehensive perspective through which clients can better comprehend themselves in the framework that our thinking about events can lead to emotional and behavioral upset. Moreover, counselors are to provide a safe environment for clients to explore their challenges and identify ways to move differently in overcoming these challenges.

Earning a Master’s in Guidance and Counseling would be the ideal next step to fulfill my goals becoming a youth counselor. The program offered at The College of New Rochelle is a perfect match or my career and educational aspirations. I hope to refine my knowledge counseling therapies and techniques, learn more about disorders and associated symptoms, develop effective interviewing skills, and sharpen my ability to work as a professional in youth counseling.

My personal philosophy of life and my philosophy of counseling has been deeply affected by my life experiences as a young child and also as an adult. I am fortunate that my life has been a good life and I consider myself to be fortunate to have to have good parents and many loving family members. I do not recall having any events in my childhood that I would consider to be abusive or neglectful on the part of my family, and for that I consider myself to be lucky. I know several people who were abused as a child and it seems to have impacted them in many aspects of their lives even into adulthood.

I had the privilege of interviewing Jason Hanson, a pastor from Sovereign Grace Church. Exposure of counseling was early for Jason, watching his Dad oversee the high school ministry. Jason has counseled various couples, parents and teens in and out of Sovereign Grace. He sees his job as an opportunity to be invited into peoples lives, to serve them and see where they are in life. Faith in the Lord is the core influence that Jason uses in his counseling and his clients are aware of this at the beginning of every session.

Ethics codes are put in place to guide the conduct of their members and set the precedence of how one should behave. The ethical status of professional boundaries and the ethical nature of dual and overlapping relationships in the counseling realm remain continuing issues and are very complex. A boundary crossing is moving away from what occurs in a normal professional situation and it is beneficial to a client. A boundary violation is a breach that negatively affects the client. When and if a dual relationship involves exploitation of a client that relationship is definitely a boundary violation. Boundary violations are unethical (Corey, Corey, Corey, & Callanan, 2014, p.260). As counselors we need to be cautious with dual relationships

In the counselling arena confronting is achieved after introducing a level of trust and rapport

D-The patient arrived on time for her counseling session. Reported stable on her dose and deny the need to alter her methadone dose, referring to an increase or decrease when offered by this writer. This writer addressed with the patient about her behavior in the lobby area on 07/11/2016 for the Women's Group. The patient immediately apologized and did not realize that she was being inappropriate with comment about leaving and not attending group, even though she volunteered, but how she could have handle it differently. The patient started to get emotional and apologized. She says, " You know what, I am just going to shut up from now on....I am so sorry....never wanted to be rude to you. You always been kind to me. I got clean because of you."

There are several form of conflict while conducting group counseling. Conflict can be among individual members or with the group. Conflict can occur while the group members are having a discussion and individuals do not agree with the same values or beliefs. Conflict can bring a lot of mistrust and judgmental to the group members. According to Cory states “Conflict may be created by not attending to the diversity issues that exist within a group. Some of the areas of diversity in a group that are potential sources of conflict and distrust include differences in age, gender, language, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, disability, race, ethnicity, and educational attainment”. Therefore, there will be several forms of conflict as we start

Since the last review, the patient has accepted multiple dose increase as warranted for stabilization. Not currently prescribed with any medication, even though test positive for illicit benzo; however, the patient provided an explanation that he took the medication from his sister as he had a hard sleeping. This writer addressed the harmful interaction during counseling session and since then, the patient hasn't provided any positive benzo. The patient continues to test positive for illicit drugs, referring to heroin and cocaine. This writer continues to address the patient's triggers and also, address alternatives with the patient to explore. Patient attends counseling; however, only had two no shows thus far. This writer will continue to

Another tactic is to promote social support and encourage counseling. Social support and counseling can be advantageous to older persons and family members’ who are the caregivers. Having other people to talk to can help in releasing tensions and providing a way to cope with issues that may aid in abuse. Many times, families in similar circumstances can come together to share solutions and provide informal respite for each other. In addition, when there is a larger social circle, abuse is less likely to go

Most people would consider confrontation, even constructive in nature, an uncomfortable thing to do. Confrontation is not a bad thing when your intention is for the betterment of the person, team, or organization. The more you grow in rank and responsibility, you can expect to be placed in situations where you will have to have the uncomfortable talks with people. No one wants to be the bearer of bad news, tell someone that they are not doing well, or need to change, that is just human

Among the many issues that face the counseling profession, counseling culturally diverse clients is one of the most challenging. Becoming culturally competent is a road that all counselors must travel in order to be truly effective. In order to successfully travel that road, counselors must have multicultural training with the intended destination being culturally competency. Cultural competence requires trainees to become aware of their own world views, their assumptions of human behavior, their misinformation and lack of knowledge, and most importantly, their biases and their prejudices (Sue & Sue, 2016). Because of the complexity of working with populations from diverse backgrounds, a broad range of counseling theories and research is needed.

For the past 5 years the writer, on a volunteer and informal basis has been given access to clients of a Homeless Shelter, Veterans Residential Center and Addiction Treatment Center in Phoenix, Arizona. At these locations the writer has conducted individual and group weekly sessions with an emphasis on the abuse of alcohol and drugs utilizing Practical Philosophy and Conversational Counseling to supplement meditation sessions. Group size averages around 10 participants. In order to compare effectiveness of Practical Philosophy and Conversational Counseling with participants who have no known current diagnosis of alcohol and/or drug abuse, the writer has during the same period conducted a group comprised of successful business men and women also in Phoenix, Arizona meeting on a weekly basis. Additionally, one time per month an Open Meditation group is held, open to all. Up to 20 individuals attend this group. Individuals and participants in all three group categories respond favorably to the experience of supplementing meditation with Practical Philosophy and Conversational Counseling. Particularly appreciated is the opportunity to share personal reflections of the meditative experience together with discussions on matters that are personally relevant to them arising from Practical Philosophy. This helps to establish deeper levels of knowledge within each participant. In addition to the individual benefit of these sessions,

Psychotherapy is a process that helps people deal with their problems through constructive ways. Psychotherapy is recommended to a person who is going through a difficult period, under extreme stress or a specific mental health concern. These issues bring a lot of pain, anxiety and an unhealthy lifestyle. Psychotherapy is mostly concentrated on problem solving and it is goal oriented.

A goal for me in this class is to connect methods and modalities of counseling clients in relation to their developmental stage. In order to effectively counsel a client, a counselor needs to understand what that person can process and utilize in the counseling process. It would be unhelpful to teach child skills and patterns of thinking that are designed for an adult. Alternatively, an adult may not respond or see meaningful change.