PSYC 4061 Lecture 3: Lecture 3

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4061
• Professor: Ami Rokach

Document Summary

Becoming a counsellor involves: dealing with anxiety, making a commitment, to the profession and the client no money in this profession. 3. striving for excellence: adopting a neutral posture be neutral to the best of your ability (freud believed this) 5. subjugating personal needs cannot be egocentric in the office. *best thing you can do is get a good supervisor who can help you navigate the above* If therapist makes a wrong interpretation, the client will start to let you know. So key part of interpretation is listening. questioning designing queries to elicit further information or simulate further exploration: but we do not ask questions as if this is an official interview! If client asks how the therapist is convinced on this, the therapist can point out all the good traits the client possesses. Used to tell therapists to leave themselves out of the equation, but today not the case.