Unit 01: Developing and practising counselling skills

  • 1.1. Manage the environment in which the helping session takes place
  • 1.2. Clarify with clients their understanding and expectations of the helping relationship
  • 1.3. Identify and agree the boundaries of the relationship
  • 1.4. Explain the impact of themselves on the relationship
  • 1.5. Evaluate ways to overcome issues of risk and safety for both client and helper
  • 1.6. Develop a helping contract that relates to codes of practice or workplace policies
  • 1.7 Explain the importance of supervision and support
  • 4.1. Summarise models/patterns of loss
  • 4.2. Explain the different types of endings and why they occur
  • 4.3. Identify own and client’s feelings and reactions to endings
  • 4.4. Explore opportunities for the client to obtain further support once the helping relationship has ended
  • 4.5. Explain the importance of the timely discussion of endings
  • 5.1. Explain the use of supervision/support to maintain own and client’s emotional safety throughout the helping relationship
  • 5.2. Evaluate the use of supervision/support in relation to own level of competence throughout the helping relationship

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