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Counselling Skills
! STOP AND THINK!
Consider a relationship that you know about or have heard about
from someone else that ended negatively. It can be a personal
relationship or a helping relationship. Make a note of strategies
that you think could have helped to end it in a more positive way.
For example, using mediation in a divorce settlement.
The evaluation should identify the following:
• The different problems and how they were tackled
• The goals and the extent to which they have been achieved
• Areas of growth and insight.
An evaluation completes the helping process and gives both parties an opportunity
to look at what was useful and what was not. It provides the client with something
positive to carry forward into the future – for example, confidence in getting a job,
solving a problem or addressing a relationship issue.
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