Therapeutic Alliance In Counselling

This essay will explore the counselling relationship along with the benefits and limitations as well as discussing other factors that have an important impact in relation to the outcome of counselling. Counselling is an interpersonal relationship between the client and qualified therapist, the relationship involves communicating with the client and using skills to explore the client's feelings. The counselling/ therapeutic relationship can be used in all types of counselling such as psychodynamic, humanistic, behavioural, person centred and cognitive therapy. As mental health disorders increase so does the need to deliver effective counselling, which means that the therapeutic relationship is more crucial than ever. (Miller, Hubble, Duncan and Wampold 2010; Norcross and Lambert 2011).

There are a multitude of reasons why an individual may need or want therapy; whether it’s due to learning how to cope with a mental disorder or disability, life happenings such as traumas or abuse, addictions, or even PTSD. Anybody can receive it – individual persons, families, or groups. It isn’t hard to argue that most therapists and psychologists will agree that the therapeutic alliance is one of the most beneficial foundations of a therapy session. Also referred to as the working alliance or working relationship, it represents the bond between therapist and

The main focus of this essay has to be on the three ‘core conditions’, as utilised by the counsellor to promote a positive movement in their client’s psychology. They are intended for maintaining a focus on the client’s personal growth, and detract from the therapist’s own outside world. The three core conditions are the professional apparatus or tool-kit of the therapist, and the use of each is a skill in itself but the combined forces of all three in an effective manner requires an abundance of skill or experience. These are, as have already been mentioned, congruence, unconditional positive regard and empathy. They are separate skills but are intrinsically linked to each other. If used correctly, they can guide the client to a state of self-realisation, which could lead to the development of a healing process.

Counselling, in the profession, refers to the creation of relationships that are helpful and positive between a counselor and a client. Counselling is intended to aid in adjustment and growth. Usually a client come to counsellors when they do not how to change so that they can lead a better and satisfying life. There are many skills and concepts that makes a great counsellor but in this essay, I will go back to the most fundamental basic skill which is "joining".

Self- help meetings can be used for a variety of reasons or addictions, from Alcoholics, Narcotics, over eaters, cancer support, and many other things. These meetings, while the reasons that people are in them might be different all have the fact that people are there for help or support in common. This paper will discuss the therapeutic alliance of AA, the therapeutic factors, and pros/ cons of AA in terms of counseling therapy.

Therapeutic relationship is defined as the collaboration and attachment between the client and therapist that focuses on meeting the health care needs of the client (Bordin, 1979). In this relationship, the therapist without prejudice shows Empathy, insight, understanding and acceptance of the client. Duan and Hill (1996) defined Empathy as “feeling into” the experience of the client. Over the years, the research evidence keeps piling up, and indicating a high degree of Empathy in a Therapeutic relationship is possibly one of the most potent factors in bringing about positive outcome in the therapy

Every day, most of the people are facing and touching with variety of violence including domestic violence, such as yelling, sexually abusing and punishment from angry drunken parents and, public violence or bulling at church schools and state schools (Wilson, 2002). However, there is not only perpetrators but also the person who help victims including grand-parents, mothers, sibling, relatives, neighbors and violence services organizations are living around the victims to give a helping-hands (Wilson,2002). To prevent or mitigate the violence, different organizations may approach to different participants such as individual, family or a group programme to conduct

Research has shown that a strong therapeutic alliance is necessary for establishing a beneficial contact between the therapist and the client. If the therapist does not encourage the creation of a reliable therapeutic alliance from the beginning of the treatment, it will be hard to develop a constructive relationship with the client later. Establishing the therapeutic alliance will increase the chances of achieving the goal of the treatment because the clients will be willing to cooperate if they trust and respect the therapist. Clients are not likely to cooperate with therapists who impose their authority aggressively. Instead of imposing their authority on the patient, therapists should develop work with their patients by

By examining the bond between a therapist and his client we can further understand how important the role of therapeutic alliance is in treatment outcome. The authors point out that therapeutic alliance plays a major positive impact on the outcome of therapy. Individuals who build good therapeutic alliances with their therapists experience more productive and effective therapy than individuals who do not.

This application paper will discuss my personal theory of counseling or psychotherapy in a number of different areas. Specifically, I will discuss the seven areas of interest. First, I will discuss and describe

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can show a changing dynamic within the group. It is important that the counsellor looks for clues as

Intersubjectivity refers to the shared understanding between individuals (Göncü, 1993). Research shows cognitive-affective processes help to develop intersubjectivity (Tronick & Cohn, 1989). Similarly, in psychotherapeutic relationships, cognitive-affective processes are the building blocks to the therapeutic alliance. A psychotherapeutic alliance constitutes the shared client-psychotherapist relationship marked by mutual respect, caring and shared understanding of therapeutic goals. If intersubjectivity is nurtured in the client-psychotherapist relationship, this can lead to increased mutual understanding and goal achievement (as defined by the client) in psychotherapy. In order to show that psychotherapeutic alliances can be fortified by applying intersubjectivity to psychotherapeutic relationships, this paper is divided into four parts. First the literature review opens with the origin and definition of intersubjectivity, including sections on communication, affect, prolepsis and zone of proximal development (ZPD). The second section will look at applications to psychotherapy. The third section will offer implications to the field and finally concluding remarks will close with societal shifts that must be made to foster intersubjectivity in psychotherapy.

These feelings may be known to the patient and have formed during critical times in their life, due to interpersonal relationships, it could be as result of abuse of victim in the past or due to loss of close relation or incident. These or unconscious feelings are not covered during therapy, which can take place over a large number of sessions with a period of a year and above. A relationship is builds up between therapist and patient during therapy, which developed patient emotions and builds confidence and trust between the patient and the therapist, this relationship is known as transference to the patient and those therapist attaches to the patient is called counter transference. The application of this model is limit to other

According to the Zur Institute, dual relationships, or multiple relationships, “refer to any situation where multiple roles exist between a therapist and a client. Examples of dual relationships are when the client is also a student, friend, family member, employee, or business associate of the therapist” (2015). Dual relationships in the counseling profession can raise some issues. One issue that comes to mind is the power differential. Many times if a client is seeking counseling they are usually struggling and can be vulnerable. Houser and Thoma state that “the easiest dual relationship to understand, based on the power differential, is a professional relationship and a sexual relationship” (2013, p.113). It is imperative that counselors set the boundaries in early sessions so the client is well aware of what the exact boundaries are. If the dual relationship boundaries are crossed, there is potential to harm the client.