A Counselling Session

Teaching is a profession that has a huge impact and influence on the society and people in particular. A teacher plays an important role in building students' minds and behaviors. In the teaching journey, teachers face many different cases of students having psychological, mental, family issues etc ...  In her position, a teacher should be aware of how to deal with students facing different issues that effects on their school behaviors and academic performance. 

• In a case study i have done, I have met Mariam who was a polite and smart student. Mariam's academic performance dropped suddenly which led to understand that there is something wrong happening somewhere in her life. The sessions with Mariam was successful and beneficial. The result of the counseling sessions are as follows:

The Result:

During the five sessions, Mariam showed a lot of cooperation and acceptance, she was excited for the change and more excited to find ways for doing that. After the first homework and the discussion done on the second session, Mariam started to believe that things can be changed and she put on me more responsibility to make her feel better towards all the circumstances that she is facing in her life. During the third session, I felt that I gained Mariam’s trust in range of 70%, which is a very high percentage to reach in three sessions. By the end of session five, Mariam started to think in a problem-solving way in which she can face any problem she might face in the future. Mariam is a smart girl who suffered from parent’s criticism, and surrounded with many negative people. Mariam needs someone to support her emotionally and mentally, she needs motivation and guidance to do things in the proper way and to think out of the box.

Methods used in the 5 sessions are:

• ABC Model: Using this model will make us understand the client's feelings, thought, events and behaviors. It can be applied on past and present situations.

• CBT Therapy: It is mainly a practical treatment that works on experiencing problem-solving. The goal from this model is to change the client’s pattern of thinking or behavior, which will lead to better feelings.

• REBT Therapy: Is an action-oriented approach to manage the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral disturbances. In this method, therapists work on managing the client’s thinking about events that leads to emotional and behavioral upset.