Written reflective essay: (30%) Word Count: XXXXXXXXXX Students are required to submit a written analysis of their role play, with the following: § Describe and explain how your role play followed...

Running Head: WRITTEN REFLECTIVE ESSAY                        1
WRITTEN REFLECTIVE ESSAY                                2
WRITTEN REFLECTIVE ESSAY
Table of Contents
Brief Overview    3
Skilled Helping and Egan’s Model    3
Analysis of the Session based on Egan’s Model    4
Phase One: Story, Background and Rapport    5
Identification of the Issue and Possibilities    6
Working with Possible Outcomes    7
Final Assessment    8
References    10
Brief Overview
Counsellors are the facilitators at times; they pertain to help clients dealing with the problems related to various aspects life. In fact, they are crucial in the sense that the success or failure of a particular session with the client depends over the degree of outcomes achieved (Tamadoni, Janbozorgi, Azarbaijani, Ali & Tabatabaei, 2017). In the process of problem management, Egan’s model is frequently applied to develop the three phases of understanding the problem and setting up the course of resolution.
The following is the analysis of the session, in which I played the role of counsellor with Pamela. The client was having issues with stress management and ultimately, it was affecting her mental and physical condition. During the session, the identified strengths were good rapport building, affirmation as well as building the story of the client by giving her full authority to discuss. The limitations included fluency at times and maintaining the rhythm of the questions.
Skilled Helping and Egan’s Model
Clients are encouraged to become active interpreters of the world, providing meaning to actions, events and situations, facing and overcoming problems, examining problem issues, identifying new possibilities and setting objectives using the Egan Skilled Helper approach (Egan & Reese, 2018). Simply put, human beings are more likely to succeed when they take an active role in establishing positive behaviors and creating problem-solving skills. The Skilled Helper's goal is to assist their clients in developing the skills and knowledge needed to tackle their current difficulties as well as those that may come in the future (Eryilmaz & Mutlu, 2017). The helper establishes a good therapeutic alliance with the client based on collaboration, warmth and acceptance in order to enable client development. The Skilled Helper assists the client by assisting them in developing a plan of action, accepting responsibility for becoming a more effective person and developing their own inner resources (O Kivlighan, et al, 2019).
Analysis of the Session based on Egan’s Model
At first, it is significant to note here that on theoretical grounds, Egan’s model is more like some skill helper to the counsellors and therapists who conduct sessions with clients. This is a structured model, which helps in reaching to the state of resolution through three phases namely, providing authority to the client in initial sessions so that the client and the counsellor both are aware of the major facts related to the issue (Kivlighan et al., 2019).
The second phase begins with the identification of the resources and methods (including possible approaches that counsellors can apply) that are required to develop positive solutions. The final phase of action links the possibilities identified in the second phase with the possible actions that the counsellors can recommend.
All of these three phases are precisely applicable to the session with Pamela as I could apply the story based understanding of the issue of her as well as I could step into the other two phases during the session (McCarthy, 2018). Based on the approach taken above, it should be noted here that appropriate Empathy is a state of human contact, in which the helper enters and understands the client's perspective, as well as their thoughts and feelings, while remaining reasonable in their grasp of the client's circumstance and reality (Falzon, Frendo & Muscat, 2019).
Although the Skilled Helper transmits empathy to the client as the foundation of counselling, yet they may also employ challenging skills with the client when specific and plainly detrimental irrational claims or destructive habits keep emerging. This is unlike in certain counselling systems, any challenge must, however, be consistent with the preservation of therapeutic Rapport and...