Counseling Skills Training: A Comparison of Professor and Student Ratings

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana M. Doumas ◽  
Christine L. Pearson ◽  
Jenna E. Elgin
Keyword(s):  
Skills Training ◽  
Student Ratings ◽  
Counseling Skills

scholarly journals Counseling Skills Training for Service Officers of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Consultation Institute (LKP3A) in Pekalongan Regency

2019 ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
Esti Zaduqisti ◽  
Purnomo Rozak ◽  
Teddy Dyatmika ◽  
Syamsul Bakhri
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Counseling Skills ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
The Core ◽  
Integrate Theory ◽  
Research Show

LKP3A counselor in terms of quality and quantity is still very lacking. One of the indications is there are still many unskillful bachelor degree graduates that work as counselors. Thus, there is a need for assistance and empowerment to meet the needs of the community. This community empowerment program aims to improve knowledge and counseling skills that are still relatively minimal for mentors at LKP3A Fatayat Nadhalatul Ulama Pekalongan. This research is a participatory action research (PAR) with a qualitative approach. This research was carried out for 1 year in the NU building in Pekalongan. The subjects of this study were divided into two community categories namely the Core Trainer Team (TIP) and LKP3A Women's Citizens (WP). Counseling skills training is carried out through three activities, namely planning, implementation, and evaluation monitoring activities. The results of this research show that after LKP3A counselors received training and mentoring, it showed many changes, including being able to understand ethical principles for counseling and paying attention to risk management; able to bring up a friendly attitude; empathize; want to listen to clients; understand and appreciate individual differences. The counselor provides services based on these differences. The focus on the client is greater. The counselor understands her position as a counselor, able to integrate theory into counseling practice, able to evaluate the course of counseling both in the process and results.

scholarly journals Pelatihan Keterampilan Esensial Konseling untuk Konselor Sekolah dengan Structured Learning Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diniy Hidayatur Rahman ◽  
Widya Multisari ◽  
Devy Probowati
Keyword(s):  
School Counselors ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Structured Learning ◽  
Active Listening ◽  
Guidance And Counseling ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Counseling Skills ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Professional Counseling

Salah satu permasalahan pelik yang dialami oleh para konselor sekolah di lingkungan Kementerian Agama Kabupaten Probolinggo adalah rendahnya keterampilan konseling. Hal ini karena sebagian besar mereka tidak berlatarbelakang pendidikan sarjana bimbingan dan konseling. Selama ini, proses konseling dilakukan dengan cara yang lebih mirip dengan pemberian nasehat daripada konseling profesional. Berdasarkan kondisi tersebut, dilakukan pelatihan untuk meningkatkan keterampilan esensial konseling untuk para konselor dimaksud. Melalui pelatihan ini, diharapkan agar para konselor dapat meningkatkan: (1) keterampilan mendengarkan secara aktif; (2) keterampilan mempengaruhi; dan (3) keterampilan pemberian bantuan pemecahan masalah melalui prosedur-prosedur konseling secara umum. Kegiatan inidilaksanakan dengan menggunakan pendekatan structured learning approach (SLA) dengan sistem In, On, dan In. Secara keseluruhan, kegiatan pelatihan dilaksanakan selama tiga bulan. Hasil kegiatan menunjukkan bahwa terdapat peningkatanpengetahuan dan keterampilan konseling para peserta. Hal ini dibuktikan dengan peningkatan skor-skor pengetahuan dan keterampilan mereka ke arah yang lebih baik.Kata Kunci:keterampilan esensial konseling; bimbingan dan konseling; structured learning approachCounseling Essential Skills Training for School Counselors with a Structured Learning Approach ABSTRACT One of the most compliacated problems of school counselors in Kementerian Agama Kabupaten Probolinggo is the lack of their counseling skills. This is because their educational background is not related to guidance and counseling. Prior to this program, their counseling service was carried out in a way that could be called advice giving rather than professional counseling. Based on the situation, the program aims to improve the essential counseling skills of the counselors. The program is expected to improve the counselors’: (1) active listening skills; (2) influencing skills; and (3) skills in providing problem solving. The program is implemented with a structured learning approach (SLA) and In-On-In procedure. Overall, the entire program was carried out in three months. The result of the program is the improvement of the counselors’ understanding and skills in giving counseling service.Keywords: essential counseling skills; guidance and counseling; structured learning approach

scholarly journals Nonprofessional Peer Support to Improve Mental Health: Randomized Trial of a Scalable Web-Based Peer Counseling Course

10.2196/17164 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. e17164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha L Bernecker ◽  
Joseph Jay Williams ◽  
Norian A Caporale-Berkowitz ◽  
Akash R Wasil ◽  
Michael J Constantino
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Counseling Skills ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Mental Health Care System ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Care System

Background Millions of people worldwide are underserved by the mental health care system. Indeed, most mental health problems go untreated, often because of resource constraints (eg, limited provider availability and cost) or lack of interest or faith in professional help. Furthermore, subclinical symptoms and chronic stress in the absence of a mental illness diagnosis often go unaddressed, despite their substantial health impact. Innovative and scalable treatment delivery methods are needed to supplement traditional therapies to fill these gaps in the mental health care system. Objective This study aims to investigate whether a self-guided web-based course can teach pairs of nonprofessional peers to deliver psychological support to each other. Methods In this experimental study, a community sample of 30 dyads (60 participants, mostly friends), many of whom presented with mild to moderate psychological distress, were recruited to complete a web-based counseling skills course. Dyads were randomized to either immediate or delayed access to training. Before and after training, dyads were recorded taking turns discussing stressors. Participants’ skills in the helper role were assessed before and after taking the course: the first author and a team of trained research assistants coded recordings for the presence of specific counseling behaviors. When in the client role, participants rated the session on helpfulness in resolving their stressors and supportiveness of their peers. We hypothesized that participants would increase the use of skills taught by the course and decrease the use of skills discouraged by the course, would increase their overall adherence to the guidelines taught in the course, and would perceive posttraining counseling sessions as more helpful and their peers as more supportive. Results The course had large effects on most helper-role speech behaviors: helpers decreased total speaking time, used more restatements, made fewer efforts to influence the speaker, and decreased self-focused and off-topic utterances (ds=0.8-1.6). When rating the portion of the session in which they served as clients, participants indicated that they made more progress in addressing their stressors during posttraining counseling sessions compared with pretraining sessions (d=1.1), but they did not report substantive changes in feelings of closeness and supportiveness of their peers (d=0.3). Conclusions The results provide proof of concept that nonprofessionals can learn basic counseling skills from a scalable web-based course. The course serves as a promising model for the development of web-based counseling skills training, which could provide accessible mental health support to some of those underserved by traditional psychotherapy.

Validation of the Suicide Counseling Skills Inventory

Crisis ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Carol Coohey ◽  
Keri Neblett ◽  
Sara Knox
Keyword(s):  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Counseling Skills ◽  
Training Models ◽  
Suicide Intervention ◽  
Counseling Competency ◽  
Scenario Method ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

Abstract. Background: The self-report measures used in evaluations of the Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) program have tended not to detect an improvement in a broad range of suicide counseling skills from pre- to posttraining or among trainees with better skills at pretraining. Aims: The purpose of this study was to develop and validate the Suicide Counseling Skills Inventory (SCSI), which included ten brief counselor–client scenarios and three counselor responses to each scenario. Method: Data were collected from several samples to develop and evaluate the SCSI. Trainee scores were subtracted from criterion expert scores to create discrepancy scores. Results: The SCSI detected an improvement in skills from pre- to posttraining across samples, including among trainees with better skills at pretraining. Internal consistency and test–retest reliability were good. Limitations: The results may not generalize across different training models. Conclusion: Trainee scores were more like expert scores at posttraining. The SCSI may be useful in evaluating suicide counseling competency.

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