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Counselling Skills
A Activity 6: Paraphrasing and summarising
Learn to paraphrase and summarise by practising with written
information.
a) Read a newspaper article and then summarise it in the space
below. Remember to paraphrase the key points to build up
the summary.
b) Ask someone else to read the article and your summary and say
whether they think that you have noted all of the key points.
If you missed any consider why this was the case.
9. Challenging
Challenging is a skill that you should be aware of although you should not use it at
this level, and not without undergoing a sufficient amount of supervised practice by a
qualified counsellor. Challenging would normally come before summarising and is one
of the hardest skills to learn. It has to be used carefully and sensitively because it can
be interpreted as confrontational and can provoke responses that both the client and
counsellor find upsetting.
Q. What is challenging used for?
A. Challenging is used to identify discrepancies in the client’s ‘story’.
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