{"id":12066,"date":"2017-03-17T15:25:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T19:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/?p=12066\/"},"modified":"2017-08-24T12:34:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T16:34:02","slug":"counselling-improves-day-job-unintended-benefits-counselling-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/counselling-improves-day-job-unintended-benefits-counselling-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"How Counselling Improves Your Day Job or The Unintended Benefits of Counselling Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I wrote a piece I called \u201cThe Unintended Benefits of Counselling\u201d (April, 2015) in which I explored the \u201ccollateral\u201d positive aspects of developing a counselling skill set and the impact it can have on our personal \u00a0lives as counselors. \u00a0The basic premise of that blog was that counselling can have a personal benefit for the counsellor <em>as well<\/em> as the client. (And it would follow of course, that when the counsellor improves, the results are inevitably beneficial for the client. Counselling truly is \u201cthe gift that keeps on giving.\u201d) \u00ad\u00adThe focus of this blog is an exploration of how counselling can have a positive impact on our capacities as professionals in other realms, and especially in professions where a counselling skill set may not be considered as a necessary tool in the performance of our duties. \u00a0A recent example in my daily work was the genesis for this idea. Although I am a CCPA Certified Counsellor, my day job is that of a high school administrator. To be honest, I have always maintained that the counselling skill set can be incredibly effective in the daily work of a school administrator. \u00a0In my capacity as a school leader, I employ effective listening skills, utilize re-framing techniques, conduct solution-focused therapeutic interventions and facilitate mediation in areas of conflict. All before 10:00 A.M.\u00a0 As a Certified Counsellor, I believe that EVERYONE can benefit from counselling; the parents, students and staff that come into my office are no exception. And in fact, many of the people who come into my office are normally in some type of crisis that requires resolution or at the very least an intervention. (In fact, there is a movement afoot in British Columbia to empower teachers to act as mental health advocates and \u201cfront-line workers\u201d since teachers enjoy a unique and increasingly significant position as professionals who see kids every day and are thereby able to establish baseline data for behavior.) \u00a0A case in point: I recently had a young woman referred to me for poor attendance. She was 13 years old and in the critical transition year of Grade 8 as students move from elementary to secondary school. She had missed about 25 of the first 35 days of school and as you might expect, her marks reflected her sporadic attendance. Now, under normal circumstances, most vice principals are going to suspend students (as counter-intuitive as that may seem) in order to reinforce the importance of daily attendance as it relates to school success.\u00a0 The meta-message being, \u201cJane Smith, you need to attend our school on a regular basis if you wish to remain a student in my bureaucratic institution.\u201d But, as I\u2019m also fond of saying, \u201cDon\u2019t just DO something, sit there..\u201d It takes a lot more effort and care to look beyond the behavior to find its etiological root. In other words, moving from the \u201cwhat?\u201d to the \u201cwhy?\u201d Obviously, this student isn\u2019t attending regularly. That\u2019s the \u201cwhat\u201d but \u201cSo what?\u201d The real question is \u201cWhy is this student not attending?\u201d And the answer is not, \u201cBecause she doesn\u2019t like school.\u201d In fact, as with many of the behavioral issues I deal with as a vice principal, the problems in school aren\u2019t because of school, they have just manifested themselves at school. Extra-curricular issues tend to manifest themselves at school because school for the most part is a \u201csafe space\u201d where children can\u201d act out\u201d and the professionals in school notice these behaviors because \u201cthey care.\u201d\u00a0 So, back to the young lady in question: she was missing school because she was depressed about her parents\u2019 recent divorce.\u00a0 She was \u201ccreating a crisis\u201d in the hopes that Mom or Dad would act, would \u201cmake her go to school\u201d and thereby\u201d demonstrate\u201d their love for her.\u00a0 How many times have we as therapists helped our clients make the connection between their unmet needs and their behavior? What I have found as a school administrator is that a little CBT can go a long way to helping students not come back to your office. With respect to this student who was missing school, my therapeutic intervention did not include discipline for truancy. It <em>did<\/em> include efforts to build a relationship with this student by demonstrating care for her, it included asset identification, self-esteem building exercises and homework, it included normalizing this student\u2019s experience, it included identification of triggers, it utilized extra-therapeutic factors as a means of self-help, it included personal network reification. It was the antithesis of what a person would expect if they were referred to the vice-principal\u2019s office for violation of the code of conduct. It was brief, solution-focused modality with an emphasis on psychoeducation. \u00a0And it worked! In the 30 school days since this intervention, this student has missed 2 days. As therapists, we can\u2019t wave a magic wand and make everything all better, but we do possess a very powerful set of skills and clinical acumen that enables us to help. And that\u2019s why we got into this \u201cbusiness\u201d right? We are called to this vocation to use our time, skills and energy to help others, to improve their lives, to enable them to live a more meaningful, satisfying existence. And fortunately, this is a transferable skill set.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Persad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I wrote a piece I called \u201cThe Unintended Benefits of Counselling\u201d (April, 2015) in which I explored the \u201ccollateral\u201d positive aspects of developing a counselling skill set and the impact it can have on our personal \u00a0lives as counselors. \u00a0The basic premise of that blog was that counselling can have a personal benefit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001029,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Counselling Improves Your Day Job or The Unintended Benefits of Counselling Part II - 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