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When working with clients, counsellors draw on a number of basic counselling skills. They include: • Attending • Use of Silence • Reflecting and Paraphrasing • Clarifying Questions • Focusing • Rapport Building • Summarising. Click to download your PDF on the Basic Counselling Skills Explained.
Questioning in counselling is classed as a basic skill. The counsellor uses open questions to clarify his or her understanding of what the client is feeling. Leading questions are to be avoided as they can impair the counselling relationship.
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Basic and advanced counseling skills. Belmont, Calif.: Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning. (p37) Attending in counselling is the skill of giving your client your full attention. To be truely present and listen to them, valuing them as an individual.
Reflecting and paraphrasing are the first skills we learn as helpers, and they remain the most useful. To build a trusting relationship with a helper, the client needs not only to be ‘listened to' but also to be heard and valued as a person.
The Core Conditions. Empathy (the counsellor trying to understand the client’s point of view) Congruence (the counsellor being a genuine person) Unconditional positive regard (the counsellor being non-judgemental) Person-centred therapy harnesses the client's natural self-healing process.
Carl Rogers- Core conditions are three of the six necessary and sufficient conditions' for therapeutic change outlined by Dr Carl Rogers in 1957.
For example, in CBT, summarising may be useful for: enabling ‘the client to hear what she has expressed from a slightly different perspective’. offering ‘an opportunity for structuring counselling, especially with clients who have difficulty in focusing on specific topics and goals’.
Tasks. Discuss the client’s reason for attending counselling and what they hope will change as a result. Explain the purpose of the counselling contact and what it is for. Be receptive and responsive to any questions the client might ask.
Certain counselling skills tend to particularly useful at the various stages of Egan’s approach. Stage I. The counsellor needs to use silence and active listening to fully hear the story; reflection, paraphrasing and clarification to identify blind spots; and focusing to create leverage.