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Module 1 Counseller Features

The document discusses counselling and the qualities and skills required of effective counsellors. It defines a counsellor as someone trained to listen and give advice, and a counsellee as the person receiving counselling. Key qualities for counsellors include being encouraging, emotionally stable, empathetic, self-aware, patient, and nonjudgmental. Important skills are genuine interest in others, self-reflection, active listening, accessibility, flexibility, communication skills, and a sense of humor. Counsellee characteristics that impact outcomes include clear expectations, allowing sufficient time, availability, letting the counsellor do their job, seeking an ongoing relationship, and high integrity.

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Module 1 Counseller Features

The document discusses counselling and the qualities and skills required of effective counsellors. It defines a counsellor as someone trained to listen and give advice, and a counsellee as the person receiving counselling. Key qualities for counsellors include being encouraging, emotionally stable, empathetic, self-aware, patient, and nonjudgmental. Important skills are genuine interest in others, self-reflection, active listening, accessibility, flexibility, communication skills, and a sense of humor. Counsellee characteristics that impact outcomes include clear expectations, allowing sufficient time, availability, letting the counsellor do their job, seeking an ongoing relationship, and high integrity.

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COUNSELLING

Counsellor :
someone who is trained to listen to
people and give them advice about their
problems
Counsellee :
A person who is being counselled
Qualities of counsellor
1.Encouraging:
 Being encouraging may be the most important quality
of effective counsellor.
 It helps clients learn to believe in their potential for
growth and development.
2. Artistic:
 An effective counsellors tend to

be sensitive and responsive to


their clients.
 Being creative and flexible and

adjusting counseling techniques


to the unique needs of the client.
3. Emotionally Stable:
An emotionally unbalanced

Counselor will probably do more


harm than good for the client.
 Work through serious mental problems.These
counselors may attempt to meet their own needs
4. Empathic and caring :
Counsellors are sensitive to the emotional states of
others and can communicate an understanding of
their struggles with life.
 Clients experience a sense of support and kindness
from these counselors.
This can help the client have the courage to face life
realistically and explore new directions and
5.Self-Aware:
Being self-aware enables counsellors to
become aware of their limitations.
It can also help counsellors monitor their
needs, so they can gratify those needs in
manner that doesn't interfere with the
counseling process
6. Self-disclosure:
Effective counsellors are constructively open
with their thoughts and feelings.
When counsellors model openness, they
encourage their clients to be open.
7. Courageous:
It is important for clients to perceive their
counselors as competent, counselors are not
perfect, and they should not be viewed as
perfect.
Counselors with the courage to communicate
their weaknesses as well as their strengths are
disclosing an authentic picture of themselves
Counselors should not feel they are too good
for counseling, or they might develop a
condescending attitude about counseling that
could result in looking down at their clients.
8. Positive Self-Image.
A positive self-image can help counselors cope
with their personal and professional life and
maintain the emotional stability that is central to
their job.
Counselors who don't feel positive about
themselves may look for the negative in their
clients
9. Patient
Helping someone change is a complex process
and requires significant effort.
Counselors must be patient with the goal of
achieving overall positive therapeutic movement.
10.Nonjudgmental:
Counselors must be careful not to impose their
values and beliefs on the client, even though they
night wish to expose clients to new ideas at times.
Nonjudgmental communicates a respect for clients
and allows them to actualize their unique potential.
11.Self-Realization:
They reach out in new directions and explore new
horizons
Counselors can welcome life experiences and
learn from them.
They develop a broad outlook on life that can help
their clients put their problems in perspective
Skills of a counsellor
Counsellors today are working with
increasingly diverse populations that have
diverse sets of needs
1. Genuine Interest in Others
This one isn’t technically a skill—but it is an
essential component of a counselling career.
A sustained commitment to facilitating
positive transformation and human-to-human
connection
Building a rapport of trust for better
communication.
2. Self-Reflection
An effective therapist knows that it’s just as
important to look within themselves as it is to
carefully observe others.
A counseling student is taught to feel well, think
well, and act well.
3.Ability to Listen – On Multiple Levels
A counsellor needs not only to listen to what is
being said, but how it’s said, why it’s being said,
and what it means in the context of that particular
client.
Think content, delivery, and context. A counsellor
also needs to be able to listen “between the
lines,” so to speak, for those things that aren’t
4. Accessibility & Authenticity
A counsellor must be accessible
to clients in order to gain their trust, but perhaps
more importantly, a counsellor needs to be genuine
and empathetic—in his or her communication,
listening, and professional person
5. Flexibility
Flexibility in world views and a strong
understanding of multicultural issues .
Each client is going to be different in his or her
background, experience, and engagement in the
therapeutic relationship, so to be able to transition
from one perspective to another based on each
client is a skill that should be developed early on.
6. Sense of Humor
Knowing how to form a relational
connection with someone to the point of
developing a shared sense of humor is a
skill that shouldn’t be overlooked.
Humor and a nuanced understanding of
its uses in the therapeutic environment is a
valuable tool.
7.Communication Skills
Non-Verbal
Verbal
Counselee features
The counselling outcomes can also be
affected by counsellee charecteristics,
1.Communicates expectations clearly.
 Good client is that they are able to
express what they want and need.
2. Allows a reasonable amount of time for
the work.
 Understands that quality work takes time
and plans accordingly.
3. Available for questions
They make themselves available.

4. Allows the freelancer to do their job


Keep an open mind about what your
freelancer proposes.
Don’t be constantly second-guessing your
freelancer’s abilities.
5. Seeks an ongoing relationship.
The best clients understand the value of
an ongoing relationship.
They don’t want to have to “break-in”
6. Has high integrity.
Honesty is at the core of every successful
work

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