Experiential Exercise

Experiential Exercise Effective human service professionals have reflected on the various approaches to counseling and have made a commitment to an approach. This commitment includes learning more about the approach, reading current research about that approach and other approaches, being open to the supervisory process, and most important, changing the approach if evidence indicates that it is ineffective. Human service professionals who are committed to this process are willing and eager to explore new theories and to adapt their theories as evidence accrues that a newer approach might be more useful. These are human service professionals who are truly dedicated to growth in the field, in themselves and in their clients. Take the Experiential Exercise at the end of Chapter 3 of the text on page 89 (you may also take the online version accessible at http;//www.odu.edu/~eneukrug/therapists/survey.html). After scoring your results, present them on paper. What do you think your results say about how you would approach clients in a human services capacity? The text book: Neukrug, E. (2013). Theory, practice and trends in human services. (5th Ed.). Belmont: CA, Brooks/Cole.