Role Play

Reflection Paper Counseling Session Role satisfy Between Kristen (student/ leaf node) and Tiffany Ellison (Therapist) Tiffany Ellison Barry University Identifying health risk behavior My knob Kristen came in for a follow-up session to focus on codependency issues, feeling overwhelmed with her mother, and non having epoch to focus on her. Kristen seems to be focusing all of her judgment of conviction on her mother and slight while to herself. Kristen is aware that she is not strong becoming to deal with overwhelming situations and trulyizes she needs to be focusing more on herself instead of trying to prove her strengths to e actually one and only(a) else.Kristen has many obligations to her mother however in reality, she is giving an excessive amount of responsibility, commitment, and worries for another person, when she needs to be more focused on herself and her strengths. Kristen understands allthing that a codependent person does is done to further ease up self pityin g thoughts of overdoing and of being taken advantage of and for granted. Kristen is overly presentation signs of intense feelingal feelings and is completely overcome in mind and emotion and feels ill-equipped to cope with her stressors. Level of competence demonstratedThroughout the session, as the healer I felt confident that I would be able to grasp the real true related issues that were affecting her life. I expressed empathy towards the client, by auditory sense to her expressed thoughts and feelings while communicating back to her a desire that I provide understand the clients perspective completely. I also felt the need to express my feelings on her mother however I did not do so and immediately contemplateed critical motivational interviewing skills by avoidance of arguing with the client close to their need for her to substitute, by not answering the phone when her mother needs her at any stipulation moment.Through this session I supported self-efficacy by helping the client confide in oneself and become confident that they can carry out the veers the client has chosen to pursue. At this come out, in the session, it was very primal to me to summarize the heavy components and how they collaborate with one another. My strong asset as a therapist is that I try to grasp a hold of one of the major issues discussed in the therapy session, and help the client elaborate more in detail, so I may and so get a better catch on each individual issue as it comes along.My client has a lot going on in her life at the moment, and by grasping onto one of her strengths out of her whole story she can mull on, seemed to make her laugh and smile. Through out this part of the session, I could then have a better trusting relationship with the client by evoking the clients views. Assessing client readiness Throughout this critical time during our session, I knew at a point that I was able to narrow down weather my client was ready for swap.This point was determined when the client utter leaf node I respect salsa lessons its a stress pacifier for me Therapist What can you do to get yourself more involved with things that you enjoy? node I could research for when they are having one. Therapist Yes, you could Client I can do that. Therapist do you think that forget help? Client yes, I love to dance. During this time, my client seemed fair in her exploration to research on what makes her happy. She was very eager and actuate to learn about the incompatible options that she might have, to submit time for herself. The stages of trade have inspired instruments for assessing readiness to switch or a clients motivational change state. Depending on the level of readiness-or change stage- different motivational intervention strategies testament be more or less effective (Cox et al. , 2002). Your clients must value a treatment goal to hand toward it. In fact, unless clients value them, they are not goals from the clients perspectiv es (Rollnick & Moyers, 2006). From a motivational standpoint, one should understand what the clients goals are and what they value in life.I was able to pinpoint this by acknowledging her strengths and how could the client research the area for any socializing events item to her interests. Identifying deepen Talk As discussed by Rollnick and Miller (2009), motivational interviewing is directed toward particular behavior change goals. A primary process in motivational interviewing is to help clients resolve ambivalence by evoking their own intrinsic motivations for change. When MI is done well, the client rather than the counselor voices the arguments for change.Throughout MI, particular attention is given(p) to the client change talk which includes verbalizations that signify desire, ability, reasons, need, or commitment to change (Miller and Moyers, 2006). An example used to evoke change talk during the session was very direct Client Should I not answer the phone every time that my mother calls me? Therapist What do you think you should do? Client Probably, it might give me some quiet time. Throughout this conversion, as the therapist, I responded with reflective statements, which summarized the change talk statements the client made.During this process, it was very important to me to understand that I acknowledged her ambivalence, but tried to reinforce the change talk. The point here is that when people talk or ask about what they think they should do, they are more likely to answer the questions themselves, which at that point initiates change talk. Identifying treatment approaches During my time in this session, I have set many treatment options for this client. This client needs to continue more man-to-man individual therapy sessions, but also initializing journaling to be completed at home.With this particularized homework assignment, I wanted her to express her feelings on paper by keeping a journal. During the session, speaking about a journal actually seemed to make her laugh and smile. The purpose of this assignment is to make time for her by identifying that she has a lot going on in her life and by putting aside a little extra time to reflect on her in writing, I feel would help make her aware of the feelings that seem to be so overwhelming. Another treatment approach I could identify is making a commitment to look into a womens support group in her area.Not only will this give her time to reflect on herself, but also will help charge her to live a fulfilling and purposeful life of self-love. This will also give her a chance to socialize, and network. I feel as if the client will benefit from this experience overtime if the commitment is there. Components of intrinsic motivation for change include both the clients perception of the importance of change as well as his or her confidence that change can be achieved (Miller and Rollnick, 2009). References Cox, W. M. Klinger, E. and Blount, J. P. Alcohol use and goal hie rarchies Systematic motivational direction for alcoholics. In Miller, W. R. , and Rollnick, S. , eds. Motivational Interviewing Preparing People To Change Addictive Behaviors. New York Guilford Press, 1993. pp. 260-271 Miller, W. R. and Rollnick, S. (2009). cardinal things that motivational interviewing is not. Behavioral and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 37, 129-140. Miller, W. R. , & Moyers, T. B. (2006). Eight stages in learning motivational interviewing. 5, 3-17.