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UNIT 2: PRINCIPLES OF PROFESSIONAL HELPING (Characteristics of helpers…
UNIT 2: PRINCIPLES OF PROFESSIONAL HELPING
Helping
Encompasses all the activities we use to assist another person.
Helping only requires a person desiring help (a client), someone willing and able to give help (a helper) and a conducive setting.
Structured helping such as professional helper, paraprofessional helper, volunteers
Unstructured helper such as friendship, family, community and general human concern
Interviewing
Conversation between an interviewer and an interviewee to help an interviewee or to make a decision about that person.
Counselling and psychotherapy
Professional helping services provided by trained individuals who have contracts with their clients to assist them in attaining their goal.
Coaching
A powerful relationship for making important change in people's live
Definition of helping
Helper must develop a helping style that is comfortable and effective for him.
Helper-the helping person, Helpee-the helped person
Characteristics of helpers
Positive view of humankind
Stable and mentally healthy
Good self-care skills
Intelligent and psychologically minded
Creative
Courageous
Therapeutic factor of helping
Maintaining a strong helper/helpee relationship
Increasing helpee's motivation and expectation of help
Providing new learning experiences
Providing opportunities to practice new behaviours
Helper skills
Good interpersonal skills
Conceptualisation skills
Intervention skills
Culture competence skills