Counselling and Communication in Family Consultation
This is the section where you take time to think about what methods are effective, and what is not effective when professionals are counselling families.
Using the knowledge that you have acquired throughout the course, and throughout the process of the interviews, show what you have learned.
Included in this paper should be:
An introduction on yourself as a professional, how your personal bias might affect this family, and how you would address that within yourself.
Recall your initial impressions of this family, and how your prejudice affects what you might think about them and their situation.
Make sure to use terminology from the text to outline your thinking and reflection in this section.
Make the style formal, not like a journal entry but a well thought out and interesting reflection on your own process.
Using 3 key aspects of your learning in this course, and write a paper (no longer than four pages, no less than two pages) about how you view the interview process once you have had a chance to go over the transcript and the session that transpired between the professional and the family member.
3 key aspects could include:
Assessment of Reflection of Feelings
How to approach and Empathic Confrontation with this Family
Involving their Community Genogram
Impact of Trauma
Presence of Microaggressions
Importance of Understanding Privilege
Other key concepts in the text that you might think are relevant with a clear explanation about why you are choosing this concept
If you were the family member during the interview, you have a vital role to play, how did your experience as the family member effect how you might reflect on your own professional practice?
