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Counselling Skills

Section 2: Establishing a helping relationship

Upon completion of this section, you will be able to:

• Describe the boundaries that need to be taken into account in a new
helping relationship (2.1)

• Describe how to agree objectives for a new helping relationship. (2.2)

A Introductory Activity

What do you think is meant by a helping relationship? Use the space
below to make your notes, then reflect back on the core counselling
skills you learnt in Section 1. Which of them do you think will be the
most important when establishing a helping relationship?

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