COUN226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: The Techniques, Intentionality, Therapeutic Relationship
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Is an expression of you as a person: results from intensive study, reflection, and clinical experience. Your counselling orientation and style should be appropriate for: the type of counselling you do, the unique needs of your clients. Based on worldviews, each with its own values, biases, and assumptions of how best to bring about change in the therapeutic process. Important to consider cultural differences when applying specific theories. Explicit theoretical rationale fundamental to professional therapeutic practice. Set of general guidelines used to help therapist make sense of what the client is saying, what the therapist is hearing, and what needs to change: not rigid a(cid:374)d pres(cid:272)ripti(cid:448)e (cid:858)re(cid:272)ipe (cid:271)ook(cid:859) Practitioners need to function with intentionality and have a: clear understanding of the techniques they employ. Sense of the expected outcomes of their interventions. Some specific techniques appear to be more effective with particular symptoms and disorders: e. g. , behavioral problems, e. g. anxiety and depression.
