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Helping

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is a broad and generic term and includes the assistance provided by a variety of of individuals such as friends, family, counselors, psychotherapies and human service providers

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What skill does helping mainly focus on

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Listening skills

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Psychotherapy

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Involved a trained therapist and a client who is seeking help for a mental disorder, problem or complaint. Therapist is individualized for the particular client

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In pecuniary a lot of therapists are different but have similar outcomes true or false?

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True

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Where do change in patterns start in therapy?

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Emotions, behaviors, thoughts, etc

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What do counts tend to gain when in therapy

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They come to understand themselves in new ways, such as existential concerns “who am I”

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With effective helping, what does it teach clients?

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To function on their own

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Problematic aspects of helping

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Even though helping is beneficial the helping can provide just enough relief that the individual will stay in maladaptive situations such as abhxe

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Helpers need to be careful with what?

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Clients depending on there helpers and Wording, sometimes they way things are wording a client can resent them!

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Is money/time a problem in therapy?

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Yes, therapy can be too expensive causing people not to have access to care

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When do people seek help from others?

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First- people must become aware that they are in pain or facing a difficult situation
Second- the pain must be greater than the perceived barriers to seeking help

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Barriers in therapy

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Money, time as well as fears of therapy! Many people do not want to seek help because of embarrassment

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How can one stop barriers in therapy?

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Support from friends or family can sometimes provide encouragement

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Components of being an effective helper

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Being able to use the helping skills, being self-aware and having a facilitative attitude

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What does a good helper need to have?

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Empathy and self awareness as a trait and a state (understanding in the moment of what one is feeling or perceiving)

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Four elements to become a helper (Bandura)

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Instruction, modeling, practice and feedback

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How to practice helping skills

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Reading the skills and applying them with be the best way they are difficult to learn

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How to apply helping skills in practice?

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Practice exercises and group exercises

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Group exercises

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With other classmates are helpful, but treat everything confidential as we would in normal therapy! It is best to know nothing about the other person

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Benefits of being a volunteer client

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It is beneficial to talk about concerns and experience what being the client gives first hand exposure

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Providing feedback to peers

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This is an essential component to training, the best feedback is the client who experienced the helpers interceptions firsthand

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Ethics

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Are principles and standards that ensure that professionals provide quality services and are respectful of the rights of the people with whom they work

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The instructor is in charge of ethics?

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Yes, it is there responsibility to keep everything professionally

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Autonomy

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Refers to the right to make choices and take actions, provided the results do not adversely affect others

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Beneficence
refers to the intent “to do good” by helping and promoting growth in others
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Nonmaleficence
Can be described with the phrase “above all do no harm” do not harm any clients with actions or interventions
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Justice
Can be defined as fairness or equality of opportunities
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Fidelity
Refers to keeping promises and being trustworthy in relationships with others
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Veracity
Refers to telling the truth is a powerful and necessary principle in helping settings
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A theory of personality development
Ones view about nature of humans beings, what someone is born with, what influence there environment has and early experiences
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How do people change?
People change with certain limits, they cannot change the past or biological predispositions but they can come to understand themselves and accept themselves
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What helps change?
Corrective emotional and relational experiences are crucial, if a helper accepts there client it helps them accept themselves
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Client contributions to the helping process
Clients need to stay involved to make changes in their lives
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5 stages of change
Pre contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action and maintenance, these stages happen at different times not in the same order
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Precontemplation
Clients are unaware of the need to change or have no desire to change
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Contemplation
Clients are aware of and accept responsibility for their problems
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Preparation
Clients have made a commitment to change and are preparing themselves to being the change process
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Action stage
Clients actively begin to modify their behaviors and their surroundings
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Maintenance stage
Clients have changed and are trying to consolidate their changes
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Empathy
Is important for building relationships, developing rapport, understanding clients at a cognitive level and affective level
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Compassion
Involved feeling aware of and open to suffering without judgment, allowing oneself to feel the pain and suffering and desire to relieve it
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Unconditional positive regard and being nonjudgmental
Our goal is to care unconditionally for clients to listen to what they say without judgment and be warm and caring
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Can the facilitative conditions be taught?
It may be difficult because this relates to the outcome, we may not know the outcome of the helping session and we cannot control it
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Therapeutic relationships
Feelings and attitudes that counseling participants have toward one another and the manner in which those are expressed
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Therapeutic relationship is made up of three parts
Real relationship, working alliance, transference and counter transference
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Real relationship
Genuine, authentic connection between the helper and client
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Working alliance
The part of the relationship focused on the therapeutic work and consists of the bond
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Transferences & counter transference
Involve distortions based on experiences in previous significant relationships (transferences involved client distortions of the helper and counter is opposite)
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3 approaches to theoretical foundation
Client centered therapy, psychodynamic therapy and behavioral therapy
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3 stage model of helping
Exploration, insight and action, these stages never flow, move back and forth
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Exploration
Is to facilitate clients in talking about their thoughts and feelings related to their concerns, to do this we attend nonverbally to clients and listen carefully to what they say
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Insight
Is to foster client awareness, once clients have some idea of how they come across in relationships or things that do not quite make sense or problematic issues, goal is to get a deeper understanding of
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Action
Focus on changes, decide if they want to change and what, how to go about that
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Helper intentions
They develop intentions by thinking about everything that has previously occurred and what they want to accomplish next
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Clients reactions
Ideally the clients reactions will match the helpers intentions and helping skills
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Clients behaviors
Are determined not only by interaction but also by their communication ability, awareness of needs, level of pathology and personality structure
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Outcomes of helping clients
Demoralization (enhancement of well being), achievement of symptomatic relief, rehabilitation
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Ways to Conceptualize outcome from helping
Intrapersonal, interpersonal and social role performance

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