Counseling

Counseling

1a. Explain in your own words your understanding of a “therapeutic relationship” with a client.

Therapeutic relationship with a client means having an understanding of the problems client possess and being able to solve the problems in an efficient manner. In other words, having a therapeutic relationship with a client means that the health care professional is intending to help the client through getting engaged with him. Getting to know the client usually results in positive changes within the behaviour of clients. Therapeutic relationship tends to exist between a person capable to help and the clients being helped. For the purpose of impacting the client's positively; therapeutic relationships are necessary to exist (Hick & Bien, 2010).

1b. What are the benefits of a therapeutic relationship?

There are several benefits of therapeutic relationship. As discussed above, therapeutic relationship exists between a person helping and a person being helped; therefore a therapeutic relationship impacts the process of helping efficiently. The most apparent result of building therapeutic relationship with the client is that the client becomes relax and easy to share his or her feelings and problems. This sharing creates the basis of effective counselling. Moreover, the existence of therapeutic relationship seems to provide an opportunity to the counsellors to get engaged personally with the clients which helps them knowing the clients in more depth and multiplying the ability to solve the problems efficiently (Wagner, 2006).

1c. Explain in your own words how you would achieve this relationship.

Achieving a therapeutic relationship is not an easy job mainly because clients do not respond in a positive manner in the initial meetings with the counsellors. I believe achieving therapeutic relationships with my clients would require extreme patience, tolerance and exceptional communication skills from my side. I would achieve therapeutic relationship with my clients through communicating with them in the most polite manner and I would also need to be tolerant within the time span the clients would require to open up their feelings and problems. Being compassionate about helping my clients would provide me strength to be tolerant and excellent communicator which would result in the establishment of therapeutic relationships.

2. Why is it so important to use a “client centred approach” when assessing needs and planning goals with your client?

Client centred approach seems to be extremely important in the assessment of needs and planning goals with the clients. Client centred approach becomes extremely focused towards clients providing underlying opportunities to the counsellors to set specific goals and objectives in accordance with the needs and problems of specific clients. I believe client centred approach provides an immense opportunity to the counsellor to become fully aware of the problems of clients through the therapeutic relationships established. Once the problems and needs are fully identified; it becomes really easy for the counsellors to make specific counselling goals for each client (McMillan, 2004).

The utilization of client centred approach remains extremely important in assessing the needs and planning goals with the clients. The client centred approach revolves around the clients making ...