In My Opinion

Do 1-2 pages in length  summarizing your learning and insights about the counseling process and personal strengths and weaknesses in counseling. 

While I am not asking you to divulge any information that is overly personal, I would like you to make a personal connection to this material, and using some appropriate examples from your life will make it real for you as well as the reader (me).  As you consider these things, please include your reflections and insights on your communications skills and interpersonal patterns, including listening, assertion and conflict management skills, and tie your insights back to the book reading (Bolton). Also discuss your thoughts about strengths and weaknesses you might have in applying these skills in the counseling process, and reflections on how you would like to continue to work to improve your skill development in the areas described above and specific ways in which you have begun to take steps towards improving upon these skills.

Bolton, R. (1979). People skills. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.