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Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy Updated TENTH EDITION Adapted by Jo-Anne D. Petrie, M.Ed. Spring 2021

Gerald Corey

Cengage

CHAPTER 2

The Counselor: Person and Professional

Learning Objectives 1.Identify the characteristics of the counselor as a therapeutic person. 2. Understand the benefits of seeking personal counseling as a counselor. 3. Explain the concept of bracketing and what is involved in managing a counselor’s personal values. 4. Explain how values relate to identifying goals in counseling. 5. Understand the role of diversity issues in the therapeutic relationship. 6. Describe what is involved in acquiring competency as a multicultural counselor. 7. Identify issues faced by beginning therapists

Key Terms for Review and Definition

Bracketing: The ability of counselors to manage their personal values so that they do not contaminate the counseling process.

Countertransference: The process of therapists seeing in their clients' patterns of their own behavior, over identifying with clients, or meeting their own needs through their clients.

Culture: The values and behaviors shared by a group of individuals.

Diversity: An ongoing process that involves a practitioner developing awareness of beliefs and attitudes, acquiring knowledge about race and culture, and learning skills and intervention strategies necessary to work effectively with culturally diverse populations.

Professional burnout: A condition that occurs when helpers feel drained and depleted as a result of their work. Certain factors such as constantly giving without expecting much in return can sap helpers’ vitality and motivation. Self-care can help to prevent this condition.

Self-monitoring: The ability to pay attention to what one is thinking, feeling, and doing. This is a crucial first step in self-care.

Value imposition: Refers to counselors directly attempting to define a client’s values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.

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Introduction

The most important instrument you have is YOU.

Your living example of who you are and how you struggle to live up to your potential is powerful.

A good way to begin your study of contemporary counseling theories:

Open to self-evaluation, you not only expand your awareness of self but also build the foundation for developing your abilities and skills as a professional.

The person and the professional are intertwined facets that cannot be separated.

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The Counselor as a Therapeutic Person

Be authentic and don’t hide behind your role.

Leaving your reactions and self out of your work may result in ineffective counseling.

Be a therapeutic person.

Be willing to grow, risk, care, and be involved.

Abundant research indicates the centrality of the person of the therapist and therapeutic relationship as key factors in successful therapy.

The contextual factors are the primary determinants of therapeutic outcome.

Personal Characteristic of Effective Counselors

Have an identity

Be open to change

Make choices that are life oriented

Be authentic, sincere, and honest

Have a sense of humor

Make mistakes and be willing to admit them

Live in the present

Appreciate the influence of culture

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Personal Characteristic of Effective Counselors

Have a sincere interest in the welfare of others

Possess effective interpersonal skills

(relating to relationships or communication between people)

Become deeply involved in their work and derive meaning from it

Are passionate

Can maintain healthy boundaries

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Personal Therapy for the Counselor

Personal therapy contributes to the therapist’s professional work in three ways:

(1) as part of the therapist’s training, personal therapy offers a model of therapeutic practice in which the trainee observes a more experienced therapist at work and learns experientially what is helpful or not helpful.

(2) a beneficial experience in personal therapy can further enhance a therapist’s interpersonal skills, which are essential to skillfully practicing therapy.

(3) successful personal therapy can contribute to a therapist’s ability to deal with the ongoing stresses associated with clinical work.

The Role of Values in Counseling

Assist clients in finding answers that are most congruent with their own values.

Bracketing can be used to help manage value conflicts.

Bracketing is:

describing an act of suspending judgment about the natural world to instead focus on analysis of experience.

Counselors should NOT refuse to render services to clients because of differing values.

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The Role of Values in Counseling

Avoid imposing their own values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.

Seek supervision to learn to effectively manage value differences with your clients.

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Becoming an Effective Multicultural Counselor

Become aware of your personal biases, values, or problems.

Seek to examine and understand the world from your client’s vantage point.

Understand the dynamics of oppression, racism, discrimination, and stereotyping.

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Becoming an Effective Multicultural Counselor

Possess knowledge about the historical background, traditions, and values of your client, and learn about their cultural background.

Become responsible for educating clients about the therapeutic process.

Seek out educational, consultative, and training experiences to enhance the ability to work with diverse clients.

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Incorporating Culture in Counseling Practice

Learn more about how your own cultural background has influenced your thinking and behaving.

Identify your basic assumptions, especially as they apply to diversity in culture, ethnicity, and race.

Remain open to ongoing learning of how the various dimensions of culture affect therapy.

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Issues Faced by Beginning Therapists

Dealing with anxieties

Being oneself and self-disclosure

Avoiding perfectionism

Being honest about your limitations

Understanding silence

Dealing with demands from clients

Dealing with clients who lack commitment

Tolerating ambiguity

the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness

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Issues Faced by Beginning Therapists

Becoming aware of your countertransference- a redirection of a psychotherapist's feelings toward a client – or, more generally, as a therapist's emotional entanglement with a client

Developing a sense of humor

Sharing responsibility with the client

Declining to give advice

Defining one’s role as a counselor

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Maintaining Your Vitality as a Person and as a Professional

Take care of your single most important instrument—YOU.

Develop self-care strategies and a plan for renewal.

Learn to look within yourself to determine what choices you are making to keep yourself vital.

Wellness and self-care are being given increased attention in professional journals and at professional conferences.

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the state of being strong and active; energy.

Maintaining Your Vitality as a Person and as a Professional

Following are therapeutic lifestyle changes that promote wellness for individuals:

Physical activity

Diet and nutrition

Being in nature

Relationships

Recreation

Religious/spiritual involvement

Providing service to others

More next week when we hear from Dori Vendetti, friend and Director of Fitness at the JCC/Personal Trainer

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Let's Discuss the following questions: 1.What are the most pressing issues that Gwen presents in counseling? Describe her strengths and relative weaknesses. Which of her concerns would you prioritize if you were her counselor? What issues do you expect to be prominent in her treatment with Kellie Kirksey? 2. What are some specific elements of effective multicultural counseling? What must a counselor do to become culturally competent? How might the counselor have to adjust his or her own values to work with clients from differing cultures? 3. What are some of the issues that beginning counselors face?

Let’s take a peek into the Case of Gwen Multicultural Perspectives

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Engage in Role Playing scenarios

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