Being the clinician and conducting an intake interview was one of the most the practical, informative, and thought-provoking assignments I have completed throughout undergrad thus far. While allowing me to practice clinical interviewing skills, I learned how difficult yet essential various skills were in order to successfully complete an intake process. Specifically, I found taking a direct approach and asking specific questions was most successful. For example, with my client, Ian, I was able to find out the most relevant information about his manic tendencies through asking him specific questions. His intake form described having manic tendencies in the past, though there was not enough information there to really get to the core reason for …show more content…
Specifically, I found it extremely hard to “quiet myself” and let the client really express his point of view. One of my coping strategies for self-perceived awkward situations is to talk a lot and carried over to my interviewing techniques. Whenever I would be asking Ian a question, I would try to explain my question with more questions. For example, whenever I inquiring about Ian’s relationship with his family, I asked him how his relationship was with his sister, who he was closet with, and if he liked his sister all at once, thus he only was able to answer one of these questions due to probably feeling overwhelmed. I did not really provide the needed calm and silent environment to allow him to answer questions one at a time. Additionally, I found it surprisingly hard to really express the most appropriate level of sympathy and validation needed. Overall, I found it hard to maintain the most level of appropriate vocal qualities. For example, whenever Ian would talk about his past of negligence from his parents, I really found it hard to express how sorry I was that he had to go through that. I used the wrong tone to respond to serious situations sometimes. For example, whenever Ian was talking about having extremes “ups and downs”, I responded with, “That’s good! I mean…about the ups not the downs.” I found it really hard to respond to various and impromptu …show more content…
Because of my inability to provide a calm and silent environment as part of my interviewing techniques, I missed out on gaining potential relevant information about my client. In the future, I will provide a very calm environment that allows the client to really express their thoughts, feelings, and experiences. I will ask questions one at a time rather than grouping them together, and I will go into the interviews mentally prepared, thus removing any self-perceived awkwardness. I also will learn new interviewing techniques on how make your client feel appropriately validated and emotionally supported. I also need to work on my body language whenever conducting interviews in the future. Sometimes I found it hard to maintain eye contact, thus I would look away or take notes versus sit there and listen. In the future, I will only take notes when appropriate and work on maintaining approach body language that allows the client to feel the most comfortable as possible. I also believe that everyone could always be just a bit more self-aware, thus I will work improving my self-awareness and ability to really understand where the client is coming from. I will work on bettering the interviewing techniques I implemented well and improving on those I need to work on so allow myself to better assist those that will potentially seek my
Assignment Wk. 7: Interview Subject The purpose of this paper is to introduce the Mental health counselor I have chosen to interview for my final project. In this paper I will include the specialties, the age groups and the modality of clients she services. Further I will explain, why I chose to interview Ms. T Licensed Mental Health Counselor Interviewee
Opportunities: - Concluding call: To make for a great client experience we need to make sure that we are thanking the client for their time or telling them to have a great day. - Were we clear, gump, and concise in answering the client's questions? Did we give the best possible answer? At the end of the call Tim advised the client that he believes that the package needs to be signed
How this alliance is created is by him asking questions about the client such as “why are you here”, “what are your strengths”, and “what do you wish to gain from therapy”? This technique helps him get to know the client and establish a better understanding of the client’s case. Nonetheless, this helps the client “unfold” and become comfortable to disclose more information about the issues. After they have become comfortable, they start to create goals together that are in the client’s interest. The kinds of questions he prefers to ask this population is “where do you see yourself in five years”, “how were your past relationships”, and “what are your strengths”?
Again, this is part of building a good rapport with the client. Ask-Listen-Solve will help you in your de-escalation
This week I met with a social worker at Cherry Health which is located a few blocks from Heart of the City. When I met with the social worker we did a role playing exercise. She played a client that was experiencing depression and sadness. In addition, she role played as a client that she typically work with at the agency and I role played as the therapist. I enjoyed the role play because I was able to receive feedback about my progress.
From the ideas and techniques that Mrs. Perez used, I realized how these interviews could be helpful if utilized and applied in the proper way. To me, this assignment was the best and it helped me further my development and growth as a future mental health counselor. The most interesting and educative aspect of this interview was how Mrs. Perez applied most of the counseling techniques, such motivational stage that we have been taught in class. Aspects such as paraphrasing the words of your clients, tone, and facial expressions are critical in a counseling session and students always overlook these techniques. The way Mrs. Perez employed according to her explanation was excellent and her ideas justified the importance of such points in any counseling session.
Self-Evaluation on Counselling Session (One) Session start with a warmth greeting, by asking client ‘How can I address you?”, to be honest I felt nervous at the beginning of the session, too focus or particular on the name of client, client actually felt uncomfortable. I can just follow the flow and address whatever name client point out and start with small talk will be a good idea such as asking about his experience of travelling to the centre for his counselling session. Thereupon, I briefly explained the length of time of the session, confidentiality and the limitation. I believe that I deliver a clear message to the client.
1. INTRODUCTION T. S. Eliot (1943) once wrote, “We had the experience but missed the meaning”. We can have all the experiences in the world, but if we missed out on reflecting, how would we be able to find the meaning? In this reflection of an interview we were tasked to complete, I will be adopting Gibbs’ (1988) reflective cycle to help me in the describing, exploration of feelings, evaluating analysing, identifying implications, before concluding and writing the action plan. 2.
I can know the actual response from the client or somethings may occur when in the actual counselling session, it helps me to have an experience to try to handle those problems, I believed that it is good for my internship or future career. Observation about the Group Dynamics The general group dynamic I observed during the class practice and presentation was that no one is willing to do the counselor. I believed that acting a counselor is very challenging for us, people who act as a counselor need to use many skills but if act as a group member can do what counselor said only, so people usually do not to be the counselor. And we always use some games to decide who was the counselor fairly, this was the way that we solve the problem.
Description Reflection is a necessary component in learning to regulate opinion, feelings, and actions. Reflection links experience and knowledge by providing an opportunity to explore areas of concern in a critical way and to make adjustments based on these reflections (Knowles Z., Tyler G., 2006). I will be using the Gibbs G (1988) Learning by Doing: A guide to teaching and learning methods (Davies S., 2012).
Firstly, I need to identify the causes and formation of the difficulty situation of my client. I should not involve my own personal emotions when analysing the situation. Next, clarification of the situation is essential. The clients should figure out themselves on how to face the situation. An effective counsellor listen more than talks, and what they do say gives the client a sense of being heard and understood.
These skills are not only applicable in the counselling setting to form therapeutic relationship; they are also essential in daily life to convey information in a healthier way instead of finger pointing and blaming others, especially during conflict. To illustrate, the practice of “I” statements were especially useful in expressing my discomfort due to someone’s behaviour since it allowed me to convey my discomfort clearly while reducing the defensiveness of the person. Besides that, I used to have superficial relationship with others as I avoided touching on people’s inner feelings due to my fear of not providing any constructive feedback to resolve their issues. Nevertheless, this has taught me that conversations do not merely revolve around advice giving; by actively listening to others, that could also serve as the best form of support. After understanding this, I am more willing to listen to my friends’ feelings and provide emotional support which deepens our
Having the chance to experience this Mock Job Interview open my eyes up to a lot of things. Being a Roanoke Valley Early College these are some of the great opportunities that you will receive. In class we took notes on how to properly do an interview from the day that you will walk in the door until the moment you walk out. We learned the expectations on how to properly groom, dressing, sit in the chair, answering questions with length, grammar, eye contact, firm handshake, making resumes and thank you letters.
Date: Feb. 19. Assignment 5 Cultural Differences In your post: 1) Consider the full range of racial and cultural differences (sexual orientation, nationality, race, gender, ethnicity, religion, etc.). What are two kinds of cultural/racial background you find (or suspect you will find) more difficult to treat in therapy and what is your understanding of the reasons for this difficulty.
It is always important that I am diplomatic, respectful and tactful and I have displayed this on a daily basis for most of my life. I can communicate with a positive manner and on occasions I have been in situations where a client is not able to speak clearly and so by establishing a good rapport I am able to make the client/staff member feel calm and not be embarrassed by their lack of ability to communicate well, by doing this I am able to effectively acquire the required outcome for them. This can be managed by simple things such as; having empathy, a memory of previous encounters, eye contact (if comfortable for the client), watching for hand gestures or displays towards certain items and with common sense approach the desired result is