Effective counseling skills

 You are working for a community counseling agency, and you are tasked with training new counseling interns on effective counseling skills.

Create a 1- to 2-page informational training paper on the role of effective counseling skills on the counseling relationship. Describe how each of the following affects the counseling relationship:

• Characteristics of an effective helper
• Attending and observation skills
• Initiation of client-counselor rapport and trust
• Maintaining boundaries and self-awareness
• Transference and countertransference
• Factors associated with age, culture, and diversity