The Helping Relationship in Counseling

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Stage 1: Relationship Development

includes initial meeting, rapport building, information gathering, goal setting, and informed consent

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Stage 2: Extended Exploration

through your theoretical approach and strategies, you explore and assess the emotional and cognitive dynamics of the client, past problem-solving behaviors, and ability to make decisions (also, goals from stage 1 are re-evaluated

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Stage 3: Problem Resolution

depends on the information gathered and the activity for everyone increases including the counselor facilitating, demonstrating, instructing, and providing a safe environment for change

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Stage 4: Termination and Follow-Up

collaboratively decided by the client and counselor and follow up strategies are determined before the final session

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Empathetic Understanding

feel with and not for clients

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Respect and Positive Regard

a belief in each client’s innate worth and potential and the ability to communicate this belief in the helping relationship

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Genuineness and Congruence

  • ability to be authentic in the helping relationship

    • ability to behave as one feels and not playing the role of helper

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Concreteness

ability to see the incomplete picture the client is painting (feeling, describing) and communicate to clients the complete picture

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Warmth

communicate and demonstrate genuine caring and concern for clients

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Immediacy

ability to deal with the here-and-now factors that operate within the helping relationship

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Strategies for Rapport Building

  • attending and encouraging

  • restating and paraphrasing

  • reflecting content and reflecting meaning

  • clarifying and perception checking

  • summarizing

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Strategies for Depth and Relationship Enhancement

  • counselor self-disclosure

  • confrontation

  • responding to nonverbal cues

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Strategies for Data Gathering

  • questioning

  • probing/leading

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Cultural Humility

the ability to maintain an interpersonal stance that is other-oriented (or open to the other) with an aspect of cultural identity that is most important to the client