Life as a counselling student

First and foremost, the Basic Helping Skill subject had taught me to be a good helper. A good helper means when you help people, they will feel like being helped and ease their business and they love it. in order to be a good helper we supposed to have the helping skills. So, in this class, Dr Far taught me a lot on the helping skill. Foe example, how we want to start the conversation and what question need to be asked. It is not easy to handle people feeling and we have to be very careful during the session. Some of the skills are we have to give minimal respond to our client during session. This is because we have to encourage client to talk and we have to convey that we are listening to them. This minimal respond can be in the form verbal reaction and positive facial expressions. Next, I also learned how to paraphrase the client problems after they shared with us. This skill is very important to translate client's idea and to let them know that we always understand on their stories. There are a lot more skills that i learned besides those skills that i mentioned. For instance, i learned the skills of clarifying, checking, reflection, questioning, chunking and so on.

     Apart from that, in this course, we have to complete some individual and group assignment in order to get a good carry marks. My first individual assignment was i had to write about my self and a little bit about my family. During completing that assignment, I started to know my self very well and gain my love towards my family more and more. I also need to write about the happiness project which i need to do at least three good things in one day and i need to do it until seven days. During that seven days, i felt that my self had been controlled to do a good things because I'm worried i will not fulfill the three good thing in one day. I'm feeling so blessed. Next, i need to write a 'Letter of Gratitude' to the most meaningful person in my life which is my beloved Mom. I wrote that letter with sincere and came from my heart.

     On the other hand, for the group assignment, students need to conduct a live helping session and we have to demonstrate the skills and theories that we had learned. My group members and I need to record that helping session and make the report. What i have learned during this assignment is the teamwork. This is because we are able to do it together even thought we are always clash our schedule and our routine also different and it need a very well plans. The challenge is we have to relate with the the theories and the skills that we had learned and it is the hard thing to do because sometimes, during making the video, we can't focus fully because we kept think on the theories and skills that will be applied.

     In the nut shell, this course is very fantastic and I always excited every Tuesday to attend the class because I know the subject is not too dry and I can see the counselor soul in Dr Far when she is teaching in the class. She always highlight the important points like what are dos and don'ts. I learned so much on counselor carrier and what is the counselor's roles. Overall is very god and i love it.💖💖💖💖💖.

MOHD ZARUL FIKRI BIN MD SANI

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