Counseling

Self Critique on

Existential Counseling

Now that I am getting into the practice ' of therapy methods , I can observe my counseling application techniques from the inside out . I think I did fairly well , but am by no means a professional . This assignment made me realize the depth , breadth , and width needed by a counselor to successfully direct someone else 's current therapeutic experience . The results of my counseling attempt , in my opinion , have been fairly consistent with a successful outcome for the client to recover from their initial problems to seek

counseling . But that does not mean that my session with the client has put an end to the future necessity for counseling . Some of my most obvious disadvantages in this first attempt are related to philosophical and organizational misunderstandings . I will briefly go over these s as I address my strong and weak points within the counseling assessment stages of the existential paradigm

Of the many methods I tried to deliver in this module as a counselor , one of the most pertinent would be : Did I deliver the philosophical message of existentialism through my client questioning First , the core philosophical root to Existentialism posits that individual existence , the act of being , defines a person 's essence , so that existence precedes essence ' whereas Aristotelian and Scholastic sense states that existence is the individual state of being that gives expression to the universal essence shared by all people (Brennan

. 341 . In other words , did my questions focus on the individual essence and not the universal force of nature ? Moreover , did my existential philosophical message convey that analysis begins with the concrete and specific experience of a single human being existing at a particular moment in time and space (Funder 1997 , 289 . I think the basic understanding of the Existential philosophy did come across in my role-playing session

Of the ten best minutes in my counseling session , I could not choose a consecutive ten minute time interval . Therefore , I must step outside the instructions to best analyze my honest effort to self-critique ' my own work . As the time interval block between the 7 :00 and 17 :00 time period was important , so was the time period at30 :00 and 1 :00 minute . These additional minutes outside the ten minute block contain what I consider to be essential and necessary foundations to building successful counselor ' methods according to the above mentioned philosophy of Existential therapy . Therefore , I have included the extra minutes in my assessment . However , not all of these minutes show my best side of being a counselor and obviously there is a need for more training and education in the field on my part , which I will discuss later

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