This was great and very educational. The flawed ways of handling sessions are hilarious and the client is great about letting the counselor know she not getting her right.
that is sometimes known as incorrect questioning. it is used to help the client clarify and correct what it was that they said or to reiterate themselves to clarify the point.
This is an excellent demonstration of what and what not to do, regarding basic counseling skills. I will be using this in my Introduction to Counseling class which I teach at Germanna Community College in Virginia.
Think this is the correct order: 0:06 Attending - Flawed Open & Closed Reflection of Feeling Confrontation Encouraging, Paraphrasing, Summarizing Empathy Mutual Goal Setting
This was great! I’m currently in a Rehabilitation Counseling Graduate program and I have to do a 45 min counseling session to show how I demonstrate the counseling Mircoskills. I love the example of what not to do at 10:00 min I could not stop laughing!
Love this. One minor observation though: I do think there is a fine line on the confronting a client about laughter. Everyone copes with traumatic things differently and some do it with laughter and humor. I think a counsellor needs to be very careful not to invalidate that style of coping because this actually a VERY healthy coping mechanism and should not be dismissed. The correct example is still better than the incorrect one, but I still wonder if such a thing NEEDED to be confronted about at all.) (I'm going to bring up this point in my counselling class on Friday, as we were assigned this video, and I think it would encourage a thoughtful discussion on the subject.)
nah, youre right. the confrontation examples were totally wrong and that section of the video is ridiculous. so... if someone ever decides to rerecord the video, they should think HARD about it sksk
In videos like this one which show a correct way to do something and an incorrect way to do something so that you can know what to shoot for and what to avoid, I never have understood the point of including "incorrect" examples which were so flawed that no one would do them in real life. For example, when the therapist is "empathizing" with her client and she keeps saying the opposite of what she says. What would be a therapist's motivation for making that mistake in the first place? I feel like there would be room for the video to teach its audience more if the negative examples were more realistic. Some of the negative examples were realistic. Like I could see how a therapist might go a little overboard with the self-disclosure in real life. And I've had therapists who have just bombarded me with options like she does in the negative example of "mutual goal setting" instead of honing in on where I was and what I would be capable of. So I thought that those negative examples were effective in achieving the objective of this video. But I couldn't say the same for all of them.
Exactly. But I think they had to exaggerate the differences a bit for us to understand what not to do. This video could have been more helpful if a background explanation were given to verbally differentiate to us how the realistic cons examples differ from the realistic pros/to do examples.
Is it a comedy session, I really enjoyed it. In fact loved, I need some one who can tease me like her, I am bored with my surroundings.☹️🙃 but I am happy.
I am not sure why it was ok for the counselor to make a self-disclosure (the correct part). I felt like the counselor would not share that she was cheated on, not even a little bit?.. It seems like TMI if it's about the counselor and her private life...
I think the issue of self-disclosure might be helpful for clients who may be struggling to open up in the therapeutic setting. A counselor may choose to self-disclose to gain the client’s trust or help build a rapport. Simply put: level the playing field. I’m human just like you are.
Same. I think an appropriate self-disclosure would be "I truly understand how heart-wrenching it is for us to get cheated on, it makes people feel betrayed. I hate the feeling of betrayal as well and I can only imagine how much you must be affected right now by this recent incident". That would be more appropriate.
It would vary per case. It would make sense with some clients and not others. One client might be struggling to feel comfortable with the therapist, so they may self disclose to help build trust. obviously not to carry on about it. but to share a similar situation to show that what they clients dealing with is OK to talk about
It’s very disrespectful that the phone has been placed around and ringing and not paying so much attention to the client . Don’t wanna continue watching this video
You clearly appear not to understand the concept of this video to illustrate what not to do before portraying the correct behavior. I am sorry you missed out on the educational potential from this video. Hopefully, you give the video another shot?
You LGBT people always want the world to only revolve around you. You people want everything to be about the LGBT, even a simple video you wanted to them to talk about LGBT. I get it the world we live in is full of you people but the whole world wont be gays, lesbians, transgenders.
