Category: Guideline

Counseling – key areas of initial assessment

During the fist few session we need to identify key areas such as lake of skills, ineffective strategies, lake of knowledge etc. These areas either contribute or escalate the problems. It may be informal assessment but it would help to plan our therapy.

Key points to keep in mind during counseling session

Assertiveness skill training

Assertiveness training teach you appropriate strategies for identifying and acting on your desires, needs, and opinions while remaining respectful of others. Assertiveness training can be applied to many different personal, interpersonal, academic, health care, and work situations.

Benefits of assertiveness training.

  • You can feel free to express your feelings, thoughts, and desires.
  • You are able to initiate and maintain comfortable relationships with others.
  • You understand, respect and accept differences.
  • you know your rights and resposibility in your communication.
  • You have control over your inappropriate anger.
  • You can able to say no.
  • You have the ability to handle conflct.
  • You can stay calm.
Assertiveness skill training

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Developmental Tasks – Guidelines for us

Robert Havighurst developed a theory on how people develop through life. He emphasized that learning is basic and that it continues throughout life span. Growth and Development occurs in six stages.

Purpose of developmental Tasks guideline.

  • It is guidelines for individuals, parents, and also therapist.
  • It motivates us to fulfill what to expect in each stage.
  • They also show what to expect in future.

Hazards

Inappropriate expectation or failure to mastering the developmental task, may be lasting impact on individuals development.

developmental tasks

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