Stages of Counseling and Building Relationships
Write a 12-15 page paper covering the major aspects of this course. The paper will be divided into 3 main sections. The discussions will break each of these sections down to prepare you to write this paper throughout the semester.
1. Defining counseling, the purpose of counseling
2. Your philosophy of helping and reasons why you want to be a counselor.
3. Identifying characteristics of effective helpers and providing examples of your personal strengths/limitations related to these characteristics.
4. Discuss a systems approach to working with clients as well as theories and models for counseling and consultation.
