SECOND POST: MY EXPERIENCE DURING CLASS OF BASIC HELPING SKILL

In the class of Basic Helping Skill every Tuesday start from 9 am to 12 pm, I feel excited when I was walk to the Faculty and want to enter the class faster. Before Dr.Fa entered to the class, the class monitor will log in the ELEAP first to prepare faster before the lecturer entered the class. When in the class of Basic Helping Skill before we started the new topics, Dr. Fa will refresh back the topics that teached before and ask questions. After refresh back the topics, Dr Fa will start the new lessons after this. In every new lessons, Dr Fa will share to us many types of interesting stories such as the interesting moment and unforgettable memories when doing the counselling session and in her real life. Sometimes it was interesting and funny until we can't feel asleep. Dr Fa always said that people was unique and cannot judge people by its cover. As a trainee counselor, we must know ourselves before we as a helper to help other people.

Before the class started, the senior for final year came into the class and ask us to become the client for them to collect the credit hours. I think that it was the time and chances for me to experience as a client in the group counselling and individual counselling session. I can also see how they conduct a counselling session before I take the course of individual counselling for the coming second semester. Besides that, we can claim the credit hours through the counselling session. One stone kill two birds, I become the client in individual counselling session and I obtained some experiences from them and learned the skills that they used in counselling session. In the class of  Basic Helping Skill, Dr Fa will give us the practice of case study for us to answer the questions based on the skill and therapy that we had learned in the class. Through this types of questions, I can understand and learned more about t what skills and therapy that was able to use based on the below situation take can help the client to solve the problems when the client came to see the counselor.

As a  trainee or future counselor, we are interested on client's issues, not the people. During the counselling session, we need to be professional and controlled the emotion whatever the moods for the day was not good. We need to perform eye contact to the client to show that you are interested and listen to the client's issues. One important thing to be counselor was we need a big pocket to keep the WHY questions. This is because if the WHY questions been asked, the client will try to find the reason to skip the questions and the client will feel uncomfortable during the counselling session.

The second assignment was that we need to conduct a video of helping session. Helping session was not the counselling session but it was just help the people. This assignment make me stress because I was the main character in the video and I don't know how to take video. This make the video feel interesting and funny in creating the scene in the video because of me and my group members because we liked to laugh when we take the video but finally we finished take the video before due date. 

My experience in the class of Basic Helping Skill was unforgettable and there were many interesting moment happened among the lecturer and coursemates that make me feel comfortable to enter the class every Tuesday for Semester One. That all from me.....A big Thank You need to say.......Thank You..

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