Health Counselling

Concept of health counselling

Definition: An interactive process between two people where the counsellor helps clients to clarify the life situational crises and uncleared inn-line actions

what is not counselling

interrogation

confession

friendship

telling and directing

giving advise

Ethical boundaries of counselling

confidentiality

transference

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character trait of counsellor

  1. personal ability

genuineness

immediacy

warmth and wmpathy

positive regard and respect

principles of counsellor

  1. be reliable and professional
  1. be respectful

create a relaxed environment

  1. be flexible and patient
  1. share experiences for therapeutic purposes
  1. listen, listen and listen

counselling process

  1. relationship building
  1. indepth-exploration and problem assessment
  1. commitment to action-goal setting
  1. counselling intervention
  1. Evaluation, termination and referral

effective counselling techniques

  1. Open-ended question
  1. affirmation
  1. rolling with resistance
  1. summarizing

types

strategies

  1. denying
  1. interrupting
  1. arguing
  1. ignoring
  1. reflective listening
  1. shifting focus
  1. agreement with twist
  1. reframing
  1. emphasizing on choice and control

communication techniques in counselling

  1. therapeutic communication techniques

reflecting

restating

giving recognition

exploring

focusing

non-therapeutic communication techniques

agreeing and disagreeing

interpreting

use of denial

advising

giving reassurance

counselling theories

  1. reality therapy by William Glaser
  • humans are responsible for one's own behavior to meet the needs
  1. Rational emotive theory by Albert Elis
  • humans has inherent tendencies to growth and rationality and dysfunction and irrationality.
  1. Client-centered approach by Carl Rogers
    -people are good and strive to actualize, comfort environment with patient-focused interventions needs to be done
  1. Field/ Gestalt theory by Kurt Lewin
  • says that we organize the world by our own subjective reality and we are holistic and strive for homeostasis
  • focus on present moment to increase awareness
  1. Psycho analytic theory by Sigmund Freud
  • unconsciousness and childhood conflicts results in personality problems

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