PYC3705/202/2/2017
Tutorial Letter 202/2/2017
Transformative Counselling Encounters
PYC3705
Semester 2
Department of Psychology
Feedback on Assignment 02 and Examination Guidelines
BARCODE
,Dear Student
We are just a few weeks away from the examinations and you are probably waiting in anticipation for
exam guidelines. We continue to receive feedback that indicates to us that that students enjoying
Transformative Counselling Encounters module. We have also received comments from students that
they are already deriving benefit from interacting with the experiential activities and assignments in the
module and are looking forward to applying some of the newly acquired skills and principles in their
everyday lives.
There are a few matters that this tutorial letter aims to cover, namely, to:
1. Provide feedback on the MCQ Assignment 02
2. Provide guidelines on the examination
Feedback: Assignment 02
Assignment 02 consisted of 20 Multiple Choice Questions.
The memorandum provides feedback on Assignment 02. Answers to the questions as well as
discussions of the questions are provided. The key to each question is indicated, that is, the option that
provides the correct answer. The reason why the indicated key is the most correct answer is explained.
In some cases the discussion also indicates why the other options are incorrect.
Assignment 02 covers the entire syllabus. Working through the discussions on these questions therefore
serves as revision of the work you have studied. Your incorrect answers give an idea of the sections that
you need to spend additional time on when preparing for the examination.
Question 1
The unique aspects of Transformatry Counselling highlighted in the Transformative Counselling
Encounters study guide are:
a. Holistic understanding of oneself and setting long term goals
b. Awareness of personal strengths and abilities
c. Unburdening oneself
d. Gaining a new perspective of the same situation
(1) (a) & (d)
(2) (b) & (c)
(3) (a), (b), (c) & (d)
(4) (a), (b) & (c)
The correct answer is: Option 3
Discussion:
The unique aspects of Transformatory Counselling highlighted in the Transformative Counselling
Encounters study guide are:
• an orientation towards understanding purposeful encounters between people through meaningful
engagement in a counselling framework;
• a sensitivity regarding the ethos (characteristics, tone or flavour) of context-appropriate
counselling and understanding its potential to enhance humanness and well-being in society;
• an understanding of reflexivity (awareness, adaptation) as a tool that can enhance purposeful
and meaningful engagement and become a tool towards self- and social transformation;
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• an understanding of the world as a set of related systems and recognising that problem-solving
contexts do not exist in isolation, and
• an understanding of the language of process and its potential to evoke a deeper understanding of
relational patterns and dynamics in counselling processes.
It also creates an opportunity for the client to gain a deeper understanding of their own potential to make
a difference in their personal life.
Therefore, counselling involve a professional listening to the client and should provide a safe,
sympathetic, accepting environment in which a client can unburden him/herself of problems and become
better acquainted with their thoughts, feelings and beliefs.
To come up with a new approach to an old problem, we often need to look at the problem differently.
Counsellors can assist a client to see his/her situation more accurately (change perspective on the
problem). It is through the use of these skill that the counsellor and client form a partnership in finding
solutions. It is emphasised in Transformative counselling that the act of helping the client is to see things
more clearly, possibly from a different view-point and creates an opportunity for the client to gain a
deeper understanding of their own potential to make a difference in their personal life. It therefore is not
preferable to help the client only to see the same problem in a new perspective without making him/her
aware of his/her potential to approach the problem from a different view-point.
Question 2
Providing equality of resources and opportunity for all people upholds the ethical principle of
(1) veracity.
(2) autonomy.
(3) beneficence.
(4) justice
The correct answer is: Option 4
Discussion:
The study guide suggests that clinical and counselling psychologists (and by implication counsellors)
need to take into account more than just the ‘traditional values’ of personal growth, protection of health,
and caring and compassion. They suggest attention to group and collective aspects of well-being:
diversity, collaboration, support for community infrastructures, and social justice. This can be done by
emphasising personal, relational and collective values to avoid disempowerment by blaming an
individual, a family or a group.
Value: Social Justice
Ethical Principle: Counsellors challenge social injustice.
Counsellors pursue social change, particularly with and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed
individuals and groups of people. These activities seek to promote sensitivity to and knowledge about
oppression and cultural and ethnic diversity. Counselling must strive to ensure access to needed
information, services, and resources; equality of opportunity; and meaningful participation in decision
making for all people.
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Tutorial Letter 202/2/2017
Transformative Counselling Encounters
PYC3705
Semester 2
Department of Psychology
Feedback on Assignment 02 and Examination Guidelines
BARCODE
,Dear Student
We are just a few weeks away from the examinations and you are probably waiting in anticipation for
exam guidelines. We continue to receive feedback that indicates to us that that students enjoying
Transformative Counselling Encounters module. We have also received comments from students that
they are already deriving benefit from interacting with the experiential activities and assignments in the
module and are looking forward to applying some of the newly acquired skills and principles in their
everyday lives.
There are a few matters that this tutorial letter aims to cover, namely, to:
1. Provide feedback on the MCQ Assignment 02
2. Provide guidelines on the examination
Feedback: Assignment 02
Assignment 02 consisted of 20 Multiple Choice Questions.
The memorandum provides feedback on Assignment 02. Answers to the questions as well as
discussions of the questions are provided. The key to each question is indicated, that is, the option that
provides the correct answer. The reason why the indicated key is the most correct answer is explained.
In some cases the discussion also indicates why the other options are incorrect.
Assignment 02 covers the entire syllabus. Working through the discussions on these questions therefore
serves as revision of the work you have studied. Your incorrect answers give an idea of the sections that
you need to spend additional time on when preparing for the examination.
Question 1
The unique aspects of Transformatry Counselling highlighted in the Transformative Counselling
Encounters study guide are:
a. Holistic understanding of oneself and setting long term goals
b. Awareness of personal strengths and abilities
c. Unburdening oneself
d. Gaining a new perspective of the same situation
(1) (a) & (d)
(2) (b) & (c)
(3) (a), (b), (c) & (d)
(4) (a), (b) & (c)
The correct answer is: Option 3
Discussion:
The unique aspects of Transformatory Counselling highlighted in the Transformative Counselling
Encounters study guide are:
• an orientation towards understanding purposeful encounters between people through meaningful
engagement in a counselling framework;
• a sensitivity regarding the ethos (characteristics, tone or flavour) of context-appropriate
counselling and understanding its potential to enhance humanness and well-being in society;
• an understanding of reflexivity (awareness, adaptation) as a tool that can enhance purposeful
and meaningful engagement and become a tool towards self- and social transformation;
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• an understanding of the world as a set of related systems and recognising that problem-solving
contexts do not exist in isolation, and
• an understanding of the language of process and its potential to evoke a deeper understanding of
relational patterns and dynamics in counselling processes.
It also creates an opportunity for the client to gain a deeper understanding of their own potential to make
a difference in their personal life.
Therefore, counselling involve a professional listening to the client and should provide a safe,
sympathetic, accepting environment in which a client can unburden him/herself of problems and become
better acquainted with their thoughts, feelings and beliefs.
To come up with a new approach to an old problem, we often need to look at the problem differently.
Counsellors can assist a client to see his/her situation more accurately (change perspective on the
problem). It is through the use of these skill that the counsellor and client form a partnership in finding
solutions. It is emphasised in Transformative counselling that the act of helping the client is to see things
more clearly, possibly from a different view-point and creates an opportunity for the client to gain a
deeper understanding of their own potential to make a difference in their personal life. It therefore is not
preferable to help the client only to see the same problem in a new perspective without making him/her
aware of his/her potential to approach the problem from a different view-point.
Question 2
Providing equality of resources and opportunity for all people upholds the ethical principle of
(1) veracity.
(2) autonomy.
(3) beneficence.
(4) justice
The correct answer is: Option 4
Discussion:
The study guide suggests that clinical and counselling psychologists (and by implication counsellors)
need to take into account more than just the ‘traditional values’ of personal growth, protection of health,
and caring and compassion. They suggest attention to group and collective aspects of well-being:
diversity, collaboration, support for community infrastructures, and social justice. This can be done by
emphasising personal, relational and collective values to avoid disempowerment by blaming an
individual, a family or a group.
Value: Social Justice
Ethical Principle: Counsellors challenge social injustice.
Counsellors pursue social change, particularly with and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed
individuals and groups of people. These activities seek to promote sensitivity to and knowledge about
oppression and cultural and ethnic diversity. Counselling must strive to ensure access to needed
information, services, and resources; equality of opportunity; and meaningful participation in decision
making for all people.
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