L2: PROFESSIONALS AND PRACTITIONERS IN COUNSELING

Question 1

Competence vs. Competency

Answer 1

Competence refers to the ability of someone, it is a possessing skill. Competency focuses on the actual performance an individual shows.

Question 2

Interpersonal Skills

Answer 2

refers to the ability to create a good relationship with others

Question 3

intrapersonal skills

Answer 3

means within a person; it includes an individual understanding of themselves

Question 4

Personal Beliefs and Attitudes

Answer 4

It simply means counselor must accept their clients no matter who they are, and their beliefs

Question 5

conceptual ability

Answer 5

counselors have the ability to understand and assess the client’s problems; to anticipate future problems; to make sense of immediate process in terms of wider conceptual scheme; to remember information about the clients.

Question 6

personal soundness

Answer 6

the quality of being able to be trusted; counselors must have no irrational beliefs that re destructive to counseling relationships

Question 7

mastery of techniques

Answer 7

counselors must carry out specific interventions, understanding of rationale behind techniques; counselors should know their client’s problem in order to give them the right tool or the right intervention

Question 8

social system

Answer 8

is a relational bond of personal or environmental roles that are part of a whole, larger community.

Question 9

Ability to understand and work within the social system

Answer 9

This would comprise of awareness of family and work relationships of the client, the impact of agency on the clients, the capacity to use support networks and supervision, sensitivity to client from a different gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or age group.

Question 10

openness to learning and inquiry

Answer 10

Counselors must have the capacity to be curious about client’s backgrounds and problems; being open to new knowledge.

Question 11

attentive and listening skills

Answer 11

refers to active listening of the counselors towards clients

Question 12

reflective skills

Answer 12

“capture” what the client is saying and plays it back to them

Question 13

probing skills

Answer 13

facilitate going deeper; asking more directed or leading questions

Question 14

four common skills in counseling

Answer 14

• communication skills
• motivational skills
  -problem-solving skills
• conflict resolution skills