On my honor I have not given, nor received, nor witnessed any unauthorized assistance on this work. 1. Imagine that you have successfully completed your first term in the counseling program. What have I been up to? I am glad you asked. I am in a graduate program studying to be a mental health counselor and I just finished my first semester. (a) I am very excited to be on my way to what I consider to be a career as a valued helper. Because I have been doing a lot of honest and steadfast evaluations of myself, I have been able to gauge my strengths and weaknesses and I have determined that I can use these qualities to help guide another person to a better understanding of themselves. I have discovered that I have good communication skills, …show more content…
Testing for aptness for a vocation emerged and expanded through 1900 to 1950, and early in the 1900s the Trait and factor approach encompassed a progression of phases that became the foundation for counseling, and the counseling field rapidly expanded upon these stages by diversifying into other types of therapy, such as client centered, college counseling, gestalt, rational emotive, and existential up to including the 1970’s (NeuKrug, 2014). Deinstitutionalization occurred and Community Health Centers Act was passed in the 1970’s that created a need for more counselors, more approaches, and more types of counseling, initiating the boom of professionalism and ethical guidelines for counselors in the1980’s to the …show more content…
Burnout is linked with feelings of helplessness and hopelessness and is the condition of emotional, bodily, and psychological fatigue that stems from continuous emotional stress related to extreme, enduring engagement with clients (Corey, & Corey, 2014). Compassion fatigue also identified as secondary traumatic stress reaction that occurs as a condition of stress and worry for the distressed client who is re-living traumatic events, and is correlated to bearing witness to the distress of others (Griner, &Homrich power point, counselor self-care,