Essay: Choice of Wide Array of Counseling Approaches
In a group context, clients are active participants and are able to choose from a wide array of counseling approaches to use during the process. Although the right to participation is an important aspect, group counselors are aware of ethical issues that may arise during counseling. Such issues as coercing members to participate during group sessions and members to quit the counseling process are addressed ethically through informed consent (Markus, H., & King, D. (2003). Corey& Corey (2006) postulates that counselors must ensure that all clients in a group participate in the therapy process with a well - informed consent. (more…)Essay: Confidentiality during Group Counseling
Confidentiality remains a huge impediment during group counseling. By encouraging individuals to share information freely amongst them, some members still experience anxiety about the reaction of the rest upon accessing the information. Although the participants are well aware of the repercussions of exceeding the confidentiality limits, it is a hard task for the counselor to follow up on all members. As such, there is a huge challenge to ensure that the members keep the information privileged and confidential. (more…)Essay: Counseling as an Important Psychological Process
Counseling is an important psychological process where individuals experience internal healing and consequently become reintegrated into mainstream society after suffering from a traumatizing occurrence. It entails both individual and group counseling owing to the varied needs of patients as well as the ethics associated with the two. (more…)Essay: Basic Personality Assessment
The results in the first section of the Pre Prentice Hall’s Self-Assessment Online Library “What about me?" gave me very reliable insights into my motivation, personality, attitudes, and values (Pearson Education, 2008). Under my Basic Personality assessment, my highest score was for being an extrovert. I got the lowest for openness to experience (Pearson Education, 2008, I.A.1). (more…)Essay: Emotions are a Result of the Physiological Changes
Emotions are a result of the physiological changes rather than their cause. Human beings have got different reactions to different events that they experience in their lives. The autonomic nervous system in the human body comes up with these responses according to what is stimulated in the body by the external environment (Brown, 2010). (more…)Essay: Individual Counseling
Nevertheless, a client may disapprove individual counseling and opt for a group therapy. The client may witness the lack of choice typical of individual counseling. (more…)Essay: Conscious Control
Essay: Conscious Control - As such, it is my belief that not every human action is consciously controlled. The behavior of human beings is sometimes an act of interaction with the environment, and it is by instinct that humans tend to adapt to the forces of nature. In the process of adaptation, some things get into people in such a way that even if you are not aware, you can do them. (more…)Essay: Concept of Conservation
The purpose of this test was to determine the ability of the child to understand the concept of conservation, in the sense that, though the three containers had different shapes the amount of water they held was equal. Similarly, though the stick and the string are of different kinds they were of the same length with none of them being shorter or longer than the other is. (more…)Essay: School Psychology Careers
School psychology careers focuses on students and helping them cope with behavioral, academic and emotional problems. School psychologists sometimes work with educators and parents on issues in the classroom and at home.