Expected process for assessment purposes

Icebreaker.

Gender & Culture fit.Hi

Confidentiality & The Three Hs.

I am a student

Client feed back

Therapeutic Method

Here again the clients feed back is asked for.

Goal setting.

During the session display & employ micro-skills.

Paraphrasing.

Summarising.

Open ended questioning.

Next part of the session the examiner will look for the following skills.

Reflecting skills.
The reflecting skills represent a set of interventions used to help stimulate clients to explore their thoughts & feelings related to the presenting problems.

Mirroring:
A simple form of reflecting, involves repeating almost exactly what the speaker says.
It should be short & simple.

Paraphrasing:
Is how we feed back to the client the essence of what has just been said using own words mixed in with a few of the clients.

Summarising:
Through summarising a professional counsellor puts together key themes feeling & issues.

Through distillation of themes & issues & reflecting these back to the client. Counsellors begin to help clients make sense of experiences.

There are three types of summaries:

Signal summary:
Use to signal that you have captured the essence of the topic & that the session can move on.

End the session on an upbeat note.