The counselling relationship is a very important one. How a client feels in the presence of a therapist will, in part, determine how successful therapy will be. The following information is based, in part, on research, as well as based on my own personal experience as a therapist. Research (Bedi, R. (2006), J Counselling Psychology, 53(1), 26-35) has shown that, from the client s perspective, there are key factors that contribute to the formation of an effective counselling alliance (i.e. one that will most likely help a client). In the following study, clients who had received counselling were asked the following open-ended question: "What were the things that helped form and strengthen the counselling or therapy relationship?" Clients identified 376 helpful factors. These factors were reviewed, sorted, and distilled into the following 11 broad categories (these are listed in descending order of importance). -Validation (clients used words like "validated" or "normalized" to describe the counselling behaviour of their therapist) -Education (refers to teaching done by the therapist during the session and the assignment of homework) -Nonverbal gestures of the therapist (specifically gestures by the therapist such as nodding, leaning forward, maintaining eye contact) -Presentation and body language (more positive if the counsellor does not sit behind a desk, postures and positioning of the counsellors chair in relation to the client (across is better), greetings at the beginning and end of sessions, sitting up straight) -Guidance and challenging (reflection skills of the therapist (ability to summarize or paraphrase accurately), if the therapist was able to confront or challenge the client respectfully, therapist makes suggestions, the ability of the counsellor to keep the client on topic) -Referrals and recommended materials (the counsellor is aware of related resources that are available to clients and communicates them, recommendation of additional materials to be read outside of therapy) -Honesty (subjective accounts of counsellor honesty, a counsellor who self-discloses) -Emotional support and care (statements about being able to cry in the presence of the counsellor, caring behaviours (handing tissue, offering to hug but only if asked for by the client) acknowledging statements made by the therapist (uh-huh, hm-mmm), joking with the client. -Session administration (payment is made outside of the scheduled appointment time, assurances made about confidentiality, counsellor oriented clients about the process of counselling (i.e.
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