Therapists & Counselors Essential Role in Society Essay

This video should be between 20-25 minutes in length. In this video, you will be practicing the skills learned throughout this course. This session will build upon previous skills demonstrated and assessed. In addition, you will brainstorm possible goals the client can achieve and then collaboratively identify one or two specific, measurable, and achievable goals for the client to work towards between sessions. Review commitment level of your client and reinforce commitment language if present. Complete and submit the “Counseling Skills Scale: Video 3” document by evaluating the skills you demonstrated in the video. Review each of the skills and provide a few specific examples of each skill in the comments section. Make sure to complete Part 2 of the Skills scale document to provide a narrative review of strengths and areas of growth

CNL-515: Counseling Skills Scale

Week 7 Video Assignment 3

Part One:

Directions: Reflect on the recorded “session” and evaluate yourself by completing the table below. Record the overall rating in the “Total Score” column on the left at the end of the document. Include comments in each skill area as needed to help justify the rating.

Locate the recorded Zoom session and add the Zoom link from the session here:

Session Management

Skills	1 Strongly Disagree	2 Disagree	3 Somewhat	4 Agree	5 Strongly Agree	Comments
Ability to effectively review informed consent with client
Ability to establish rapport with client
Ability to open and close session effectively
Ability to provide timely warning towards the end of the session

Attending Skills

Skills	1 Strongly Disagree	2 Disagree	3 Somewhat	4 Agree	5 Strongly Agree	Comments
Ability to engage in appropriate eye contact
Ability to use nonverbals (Face client, open posture, nodding head, leaning in, and relax posture)
Ability to reflect client feelings Try using the format (You feel _____ because _____) to capture the feeling word and the possible reasons for the feeling. Phrase this tentatively so that clients can reject or modify your reflection if it is not correct.
Ability to reflect meaning (This looks like a paraphrase but goes beyond what the client says to include their meaning, values, and goals.)
Ability to reflect content (This is a paraphrase of what the client said.)
Ability to use open-ended questions
Ability to paraphrase
Ability to summarize

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Challenging Skills (Confronts caringly the discrepancy between self-expectation when facing the problem and actual attitude/behavior shown and how these are personally judged. (“You expect yourself to do__when facing the problem of______, but you do______. When this happens you feel_____about yourself.”)

Skills	1 Strongly Disagree	2 Disagree	3 Somewhat	4 Agree	5 Strongly Agree	Comments
Ability to identify discrepancies between the client’s behavior, values, beliefs, abilities and what they say or present as the problem
Ability to recognize distorted, irrational thinking, and/or blind spots
Ability to challenge the client in a caring and nonjudgmental manner

Goal Setting Skills

Skills	1 Strongly Disagree	2 Disagree	3 Somewhat	4 Agree	5 Strongly Agree	Comments
Ability to create a sense of hope and possibility for the client
Ability to help client brainstorm list of possible goals and objectives
Ability to collaboratively establish SMART goals with client (Delineating the long-term goal achievement and associated benefits to oneself.)
Ability to help client commit to change (Defining and confirming the decision in terms of changing or not changing.)

Total Score: ______

Part Two:

Comments/Reflection: Take a moment to discuss your experience, areas you feel you did well, and areas you feel you could improve. It is mandatory to discuss both areas.