Assignment 3: Current Counseling AbilitiesPracticing your skill is a great learning experience for you. This course is intended to be a safe place for you, the student, to look at yourself and see wha

Assignment 3: Current Counseling Abilities

Practicing your skill is a great learning experience for you. This course is intended to be a safe place for you, the student, to look at yourself and see what your baseline abilities are with respect to the foundational counseling skills to be acquired in this course.Now that you have experienced and viewed your unique style of communicating and being present with a client, reflect on what you saw, felt, and heard. Review your transcript ad summary as much as you need to. Don’t judge yourself harshly during this assignment. Simply observe where you are today, with the expectation of expanding and making progress with your counseling skills throughout the course.By analyzing your transcripts and feedback, you will be able to experience your style and reflect on your strengths and area for development.Reflect on the following:Did you listen well? How can you tell?Did you successfully engage the client? How do you know? What positive or negative feedback did you receive from the client?Did you offer advice?How did you stay focused on the client?What proportion of time did you talk compared with the amount of time the client athlete talked?What, if anything, did you disclose too much of yourself rather than listening to your client?Were there any surprises?Identify some things you feel you did well, as well as things you think you need to work on as a counselor-in-training.Use your text as a guide and reference.Create a two- to three-page self-reflection paper in Microsoft Word to respond to the points above. Draw some conclusions about your performance.Cite appropriate sources, such as the text, which were helpful to you in identifying your style.Name the file SP6104_M2_A3_lastname_firstinitial.doc. Submit it to the Discussion Area by the due date assigned.Select one Module 2 Assignment 2 of another student and also review this reflection assignment and critique their performance with respect to the criteria given above in the Discussion Area through the end of the module. Do not respond to the same student if their assignment has already been selected. All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.Assignment 3 Grading Criteria Maximum PointsAssessed whether you listened well during the interview.8Analyzed and clearly explained how you offered advice or stayed focused on the client.8Assessed how you disclosed too much of yourself.8Shared any surprises from the interview.4Identified specific strengths and weaknesses of current style and goals for improvement.8Reviewed the transcript and the self-reflection of one other student according to the stated criteria.8Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources, displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.4Total:48