Personality Each Question Only Requires

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Explain how you will cope with stress as a counselor. Be clear about what you feel will cause you the most stress as a counselor. Discuss how coping with stress is related to ethics. (Use 2 references only a page long)

As a counselor I would use the same techniques to cope with stress as the ones I would recommend to my clients, such as; relaxation exercises, cognitive restructuring, and seeking the advice of a professional. It is important for counselors to understand personal struggles in the same vein as the struggles that other people experience and seek professional help with. It may be particularly important for any person in a counselor role to address their stress with a professional because of all of the trauma they hear about without being able to share with others, such as a partner for example. The confidentiality and lack of judgement that being in this role require could lead to having bottled up feelings about clients' experiences, and perhaps also feelings about the way these experiences resonate personally for the couselor.

Coping with stress is an essential element of keeping in check your biases and personal influence when working with clients. This relates to ethics because the ability or inability to do so effectively affects the couselling process with clients. As a couselor you make a commitment to reflect objectively on your clients' experiences, but how could this be possible in a situation where your own unresolved issues are overlapping with the same ones of your clients? How can you make recommendations for clients that prioritize their emotional well-being when you are not willing to prioritize your own? It is indeed not possible. Becoming a couselor requires a deep commitment to self-reflection and self-awareness, not for a specific time period but consistently throughout your entire career and life. If you want to present yourself genuinely as being in a helping role then your actions must be equally as genuine. This process of self-reflection ethically entails that counselors use appropriate self-care measures to ensure their own emotional health. It also entails that counselors not seek to use the therapeutic process for their own personal gain. In order to be ethically sound it must be client-centred.

If a counselor enters into the therapeutic relationship with stress that s/he is not willing to address according to their own techniques, then even with the best of intentions toward the client it is not possible to be genuine. This does not mean that the counselor is not allowed to experience the same stresses that his/her clients also experience. It does meant that a counselor is required to be honest first and foremost with him/herself and if that is not possible then attempting honesty with one's clients becomes hypocritical and has an unspoken negative influence on the therapeutic relationship.

Paper #2 Discuss your views on the necessity of getting personal therapy during counseling training and, later on, as a professional counselor. Also, discuss the ethical implications of both transference and countertransference. Discuss how you, as a counselor, will ethically handle a client becoming dependent on you. (2 or 3 references only 1 page long)

Paper #3 Discuss three values that are important to you as a person. As a counselor, how do you plan to remain neutral when these values are challenged? Is it reasonable to expect value neutrality on behalf of the counselor? From your perspective, what makes value neutrality more ethical than value sharing? (2 or 3 references. Only a page long.

Paper #4: Discuss your views on diversity and multiculturalism in reference to Brokeback Mountain. What concerns might you have if Jack and Ennis saw you individually for counseling? Be sure to refer to relevant literature, including the ACA Code of Ethics.