Question

Humanistic approaches encourage the client to increase self-awareness and self-understanding through experiencing their feelings. Counselors are encouraged to be empathic, genuine, and accepting. How would you work with a client with whom you did not feel emphatic, genuine, and accepting in a counseling setting?

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Answer 1

Humanistic approaches encourage the client to increase self-awareness and self-understanding through experiencing their feelings. Counselors are encouraged to be empathic, genuine, and accepting. How would you work with a client with whom you did not feel emphatic, genuine, and accepting in a counseling setting?

In occupational therapy, it is very easy to be judgemental on clients, because of the nature of crime or the nature of diseases that these patients have. It is very easy to form a pre conceived notion about these patients and judging them because of their activities. In order to avoid these, it is important that therapist should remember that this is a profession where we would encounter people of different backgrounds who might or might not have committed crimes or who might have carried out various acts. In order to not be judgemental, it is important that the therapist should remember that making any notions about the client sitting in the front would only cause problems in a client cente-red approach and would not allow the occupational therapist to provide interventions such that it could be beneficial in treating the client in order to attain a better quality of life. Keeping all the unrequited emotions aside, it is important to treat the patient in the best possible manner.