The important thing to remember when gathering evidence is that the more evidence the better - that is, the more evidence you gather to demonstrate your skills, the more confident an assessor can be that you have learned the skills not just at one point in time, but are continuing to apply and develop those skills (as opposed to just learning for the test!). Furthermore, one piece of evidence that you collect will not usualy demonstrate all the required criteria for a unit of competency, whereas multiple overlapping pieces of evidence will usually do the trick!
From the Wiki University
What evidence can you provide to prove your understanding of each of the following citeria?
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Support clients to identify concerns
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Follow the client’s story and stay with their perspective to assist the client to feel comfortable and express their concerns freely Completed |
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Explore the client’s presenting issues and establish their nature and depth, giving attention to the possibility of underlying issues Completed |
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Identify and promptly deal with situations requiring immediate action Completed |
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Support clients to identify their primary concerns in relation to the presenting issues and to prioritise concerns on which to work Completed |
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Recognise indicators of client issues requiring referral and report or refer appropriately in line with organisation requirements Completed |
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Support clients to work through concerns
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Identify and work with uncertainty and ambivalence of clients Completed |
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Support clients to experience and process difficulties Completed |
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Draw attention to, and discuss parallels and links in client’s experience as appropriate Completed |
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Identify and implement interventions that have meaning for the client’s immediate situation and that are most likely to facilitate client understanding and actions Completed |
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Support client to identify and use known and previously unknown strengths Completed |
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Explore perceptions of client’s feelings by reflecting back, clarification and review Completed |
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Assist clients to become aware of underlying issues where appropriate and begin to identify ways of dealing with them Completed |
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Acknowledge and work with changes in client’s life as appropriate Completed |
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Monitor the counselling process
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Monitor and review the counselling process with clients to ensure it remains of value Completed |
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Proactively identify and work on threats and disruptions to the counselling process with clients Completed |
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Review and compare own and client’s perceptions of the process and provide suggestions and advice in response Completed |
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Address any tension between client’s hopes and expectations and the reality of resource limitations Completed |
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Facilitate change at a pace the client can tolerate and assimilate Completed |
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Recognise and assess the appropriateness of ending the current counselling Completed |
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Acknowledge, value and work with individual uncertainty in the counselling relationship Completed |
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Apply ethical codes of conduct in addressing counselling dilemmas Completed |
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Bring the counselling process to an end
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Enable client to identify when the process is approaching its conclusion Completed |
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Enable client to identify, acknowledge and evaluate what is and is not changing, both in the counselling process and in their situation and understanding Completed |
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Use the ending process to enable client to understand the nature and impact of earlier issues Completed |
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Use boundaries of the counselling relationship to assist the ending process Completed |
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Plan, structure and contract endings appropriately with client Completed |
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Support client’s sense of autonomy during the ending process Completed |
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Inform clients about any opportunities for further support Completed |
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Identify unresolved issues and discuss further work if appropriate Completed |
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Complete documentation and reporting according to organisation requirements Completed |
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