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Conversation between a friend of mine and me discussing his drug addiction and trying to use the helping skills to help him in this session. He becomes so angry easily, and thus that is put into consideration in this conversation. The session is of helping the situation through conversation that includes the use of skills that are usually applied in the conversation when dealing with such situations that involve the need for one’s help. The results in each step or each skill are rated according to their reliability in this conversation. The setting of this conversation is on Saturday at 10:00 A.M where the venue is set to be in a certain restaurant, an open place and during a time in which people are fresh and not tired in their minds. The length of the session is set to be between 20 to 35 minutes to brief and let the conversation not to be boring. This paper addresses one of conversation in helping session outlining the specific helping skills applied in this conversation.
Establishing the relationship between us is one of the skills in a conversation that may involve helping the situation, understanding the aim of holding the session and all that which is involved in the discussion. In our discussion drug addiction is the main topic that brings out this conversation. In establishing the relationship, we have to get to know the other person well in that this friend of mine is a drug addict as he tells and explains how he cannot do with some drugs even after having sleepless nights and the drugs being harmful to his body. The drug addiction has become one of his real-life problems, and due to this, he can to a chance of requiring solving this situation that has become disgusting and boring at the same time.
Paying attending to the client that needs your help which includes maintaining eye contact and focusing on the words that he says so that I can get understand and try to help him solve the situation. It also involves showing interest and concentrating on what the other partner says on the issue that the discussion is about. One has to focus on the other person for one time. This drug addict is more of anger, and in paying attention to my view on the same issue, he becomes angry because am talking of leaving the closest friends behind that will help him in trying to forget about drugs. The rating of this shows how the drug addict at some point this helping session will be of no help to him if and only he continues to raise his angry emotions.
Questioning is another skill that is used in the helping session to try to understand the main content that the speaker gives and gets the helping understanding. This helps in gaining information since, without the use of the questions, the session may not be helpful since I will not know the effects and challenges that he faces. In this question, the questions are verbal, and so the answers should be. The fact that this drug addict is sometimes getting angry does not bring out the real information that is required in helping him overcome the use of drugs. He takes some questions too personal, and this leads to the conversation being so dormant. The rating in this skill is found that the use of questions to help him was not more efficient in helping but at least it tried to help though some questions did not give a bit explained answers in the session.
The reflecting content is one of the skills that help in the sense of accurately listening and fetching the right content that helps in continuing the positive helping session discussion. It helps in bringing out the main understanding of the content of what the speaker is saying including the ideas, facts and beliefs. In this case, I have to get the main content on drug addiction that my friend needs to be helped with. The rating, in this case, is somehow hard to get all the basic information that can be used in helping session on drug addiction.
Encouraging is another skill that is used in a conversation where the person helping opens out to show the interest in helping this friend on drug addiction. It helps in building confidence to the person being helped where in this case is a friend that is addicted to drugs. I prefer showing how the information is captured and how I am willing to help this person after having understood. The rating in this skill is the best degreed since, for one to help, he/she has to get the content.
Paraphrasing is another skill that is used in understanding the overall conversation that improves the impact of someone’s comment. In this case, the information provided by this friend of mine helps me give the possible ways of coming out of the difficulty in drug addiction. One has to use other helping stuff that helps in energy-giving, making sure that one does not need to use the drugs again. The rating in this skill shows the effect of understanding one’s comments.
Summarizing is another skill that helps to build effective communication that can help solve helping questions. It shows how the people have understood each other and presents the information in an understood phase. This gives the final statements that help in concluding the conversation of the specific topic. The rating of this skill was highly appreciated due to the answers provided for the challenges in the drug addiction based by my friend,
Conclusively, I made the session more reliable and more understood and getting a chance to help and specialize in the main topic of concern. These skills help in having a good flow of the chat and understanding the ways of dealing with such sessions. My strongest point was keeping off from the other influencing closest friends that might guide one in going back to taking drugs. The weakest side was a collection of content an trying to help this drug addict.
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