Basic Helping Skill

   Hi everyone, 

 I still remembered the first time I walk in through TR3, the first time I saw Dr. Fa and also the first time I saw my coursemate. That time I was a little shy girl because there’s no one that I’ve knew there except for eejay, faz and also rene. We are doing the ice breaking for our first class and at that time I got to know more of my coursemate.  

   During the class, what I’ve been learn from it was actually a different type of helper I can see. All this while, I thought that to be a helper just need a helping skills but that was completely wrong. Helper are divided to three part that consists of non-professional, para-professional and professional helper.  Basically to be a helper, we need a skills and also techniques to become a really professional helper one day.

    Everyone can be a helper as long as you do everything with sincerity without aiming for something else. For me, this class really teach me to be a great helper one fine day. I’ve learn the technique and skill for counselling sessions and also the difference between advising and also counselling. Actually, counselling session was not an advising session that we can do as what we want in the supermarket or maybe in the coffee shop and so forth. Basically, people are thinking that counselling is just a technique of questioning and also with full of therapy. Not everyone know that the counselling session is not all about the questioning. There is a lot of techniques as a counsellor should know and they can use them during the counselling session. I did learn also about unconditional positive regard which was taught me to accept whomever that come to us to do a counselling session. We have no right to judge them by their personality and also their appearance. We need to know their story first before talk behind them.

         “We know their name but not their story”

     This class was really make me learn more about empathy and also how to handle someone’s feeling by just staring at them. Basically, as a human being, it is normal to judge people before get to know them. Our first impression is really important but not everyone know that knowing their story is an important task that we need to know first before judging them. This is what I’ve learn during the class.

Much love from me 💜

Sharifah Syahirah Wan Mohamad (59172)