Page 7 - Part A

Counselling Skills

What do you know?

Before you start this unit, it is important that you take some time to think about what
you already know in relation to using counselling skills and personal development.
Please take some time to answer the questions below and rate your confidence in
each topic area.

Use the following key to complete your answers to questions 1 to 4. You can then write
out your answer in full for question 5.

At the end of the unit, you will be asked to take another look at these questions so that
you can rate your confidence again and identify how you have progressed throughout
the unit and how your knowledge and awareness in each area has developed.

1 – Not confident at all 2 – A little confident 3 – Confident
4 – Very confident 5 – Confident enough to share my knowledge with others

How confident do you feel in your knowledge about core
1.
counselling skills?
How confident are you in your understanding of establishing a
2.
helping relationship?

3. How confident do you feel in concluding a helping interaction?

How confident do you feel in your knowledge of concluding a
4.
helping relationship?

5. What are you hoping to learn in this unit?

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