Author Question: When a counselor is developing an understanding of the client's presenting concern, the description ... (Read 79 times)

nenivikky · **on:** Jul 30, 2018

When a counselor is developing an understanding of the client's presenting concern, the description of the presenting concern should include all of the following EXCEPT:

a. the reason(s) each client states he/she is seeking counseling or has been referred
b. any information from the referring agent (teacher, doctor, psychiatrist, etc.) and his/her description of the problem
c. descriptions of the attempted solutions and the outcome of these attempts
d. one definition or description of the problem

Question 2

When a counselor is trying to determine the client's presenting concern, a common mistake of new counselor's is what?

a. Focusing on a rigid problem definition
b. Getting bogged down in too many definitions of the problem
c. Moving to rapidly define the problem from the counselor's worldview
d. All of the above