The Counselling Relationship

This video lecture provides a fundamental overview of the components of the counselling process used to facilitate clients to identify and work through their concerns. The video is divided into the following four sections:

(1) Identifying Concerns: Some clients will know exactly what they want to achieve in counselling others will have a range of concerns and be unable to pinpoint anything specific. This section discusses the way counsellors can help clients identify the client's primary concerns and set priorities for working on them; (2) Working Through Concerns: in this section you will explore ways that you can help clients to work through their concerns; (3) Monitoring the Counselling Process: this section explains the importance of monitoring the counselling process and; (4) Concluding Counselling: this section clarifies how to prepare and plan for ending the counselling process.