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Write a 750-1,000-word essay outlining at least four guidelines for effectively challenging a client. For each guideline, provide a case example illustrating the principle. Address the following in your paper:
- How can counselors challenge a client without getting into a power struggle with a client, or provoking client defensiveness?
- How can counselors help a client to identify unused resources and strengths?
- How can counselors help a client to identify blind spots while continuing to provide empathy and support for the client?
- How would counselors work with a client within an interdisciplinary treatment team?
- How can a counselor act as a consultant when a practicing counselor asks for help to strengthen their challenging skills with clients?
- For this part of the assignment, you may write in the first person. Reflect on your level of assertiveness. Do you feel you are assertive enough to challenge clients comfortably or do you feel you are too passive or aggressive? What might keep you from challenging a client?
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This assignment meets the following CACREP Standards:
2.F.5.c. Theories, models, and strategies for understanding and practicing consultation.
2.F.5.g. Essential interviewing, counseling, and case conceptualization skills.
5.C.3.d. Strategies for interfacing with integrated behavioral health care professionals
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Running Head: GUIDELINES FOR EFFECTIVELY CHALLENGING A CLIENT
Guidelines for Effectively Challenging a Client
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GUIDELINES FOR EFFECTIVELY CHALLENGING A CLIENT
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Counseling is not basically about exploring major issues and attaining a diverse
perspective on psychological difficulties and problems. It is about creating trust and rapport with
the counselor. Through this, the counselors can be able to challenge the clients without engaging
into a power scuffle with the client, or infuriating the client defensiveness. Additionally, to avoid
this, according to Brems (2001), the counselor can ensure that he or she is sincerely involved in
the therapeutic relationship, has empathy for the client, communicates attitudes clearly and also
has absolute positive respect for the client. Through this, the client will feel comfortable and he
or she will be in a position to open up and raise their worries without tussles.
Clients always have unused resources and strengths that they might not recognize by
themselves. In that case, counselors should chip in and assist the clients to recognize them.
However, one of the major method that the counsel can use to assist the client is through the use
of Solution Focused Counselling Model. Research has it that this model is basically a pragmatic
and positive method to making individual changes that habitually result in dramatic
transformations in the relationships of the client. However, counselors must ensure that the
controlling princi...
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