Counseling, Relationship Building, Goals, Treatment Planning

Assess your basic counseling skills as they relate to therapeutic relationship building, goal setting, and treatment planning. Create a 10-15 page hypothetical dialogue that occurs during an initial session with a client.

Client name is Markayla Smith, she's a 20 year old college student that is recently broke up with her boyfriend, Fred and lost her mother, Anna Smith, to breast cancer over a year ago. Be sure to create a introduction and go over confidentiality at the beginning of the session.

In the dialogue, demonstrate the basic counseling skills of empathy, reflective listening, and summarizing. Be sure to notate which counseling skills you're implementing.

Also, demonstrate your ability to create a good therapeutic relationship through appropriate goal setting and treatment planning in collaboration with your client.

After the dialogue, in 4-6 additional pages, justify the way you conducted the session with references to at least ten peer-reviewed articles.