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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:

  1. How can counselors challenge a client without getting into a power struggle with a client, or provoking client defensiveness?
  2. How can counselors help a client to identify unused resources and strengths?
  3. How can counselors help a client to identify blind spots while continuing to provide empathy and support for the client?
  4. How would counselors work with a client within an interdisciplinary treatment team?
  5. How can a counselor act as a consultant when a practicing counselor asks for help to strengthen their challenging skills with clients?
  6. 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?

Provide at least three scholarly references in your paper.

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Guidelines for effective challenging a client
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GUIDELINES TO EFFECTIVE CHALLENGING A CLIENT

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In counseling, effective challenging is an important technique. It benefits clients by
enabling them to identify some of their strengths and blind spots which contribute a lot to the
counseling process, however challenging should be conducted with empathy in order not to
provoke clients. This paper will, therefore, outline guidelines for effective challenging.
Guidelines to effective challenging of a client
Empathic responding
In a counseling session, the empathic response of a counselor to the client’s statements is
a key way to effectively challenge a client during the session. Through empathic responding
counselors are able to challenge their clients without making them feel misunderstood or
wrongly judged (Egan, 1998). A case example, a client comes into your office, sits down, and
start to speak with emotions:
CLIENT: I do not even where I should start from. (Then completely falls silent.)
COUNSELOR: It is very clear that you are feeling miserable, but I think we should start by
talking about why.
CLIENT: Okay, let me tell you how it started…………..
From the example, it is clear that through empathic responding the counselor was able to
challenge the client to talk about how the problem started.
Accurate timing
For a counselor to effectively challenge a client, he/she must be keen on timing this is
because the too early challenge of clients during the session ...


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