Counselling Session to Help an Adolescence Boy Having Trouble Focusing During School
For this counselling session, I was lucky to get a younger friend who often loo up to me for mentorship and encourage as the volunteer. Apart from being a friend, he is also a family member though a far cousin. It was an interview that took around 20 minutes with satisfactory results which bordered more on reality than a volunteer playacting the role of an adolescent, the friend is actually an adolescent hence it made my interview more real and easy to internalize.
The experience of interviewing the friend with the aim of counseling turned out to be a marvelous one despite first having apprehensions. It is the closest I have ever come to counselling in real lie and as a learning counsellor, this was an exiting moment that was personal. Taking into account the depth of the revelations that he was giving to me about his struggles, I for the first time felt the sense of being trusted with highly personal information and the notion that it had to remain confidential. Throughout the session, the thought that the young friend might feel like I am taking advantage of our friendship to get detailed information from him kept coming to me in my framing of the questions, however, I constantly strived to keep the entire interview professional. The interviewee was able to help me understand the struggles of an adolescent especially in school and the image of an adolescent who is torn between commitment to his academics and the social influence that would not help him at the end of it was well brought out in the session.
The fact that despite being close friends and relatives back at home and still I managed to keep the session professional without evoking the emotions of daily friendship that would compromise the objectivity of the session was the most rewarding feeling that I had in the entire session. It was also rewarding to know through the interview that the social pressure at school between my age group and that of my subject were quite significant despite the very minimal age...
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