Transformative Counselling Encounters
PYC3705
Assignment 2 memorandum
Tutorial Letter 202/2/2020
Tutorial Letter 202/1/2019
Tutorial Letter 202/2/2019
Tutorial Letter 202/1/2018
Tutorial Letter 202/2/2018
Tutorial Letter 202/1/2017
Tutorial Letter 202/2/2017
Tutorial Letter 202/1/2016
Assignment questions and answers with explanations
, Memorandum Assignment 2 (Semester 2 2020)
QUESTION 1
The unique aspects of Transformative Counselling Encounters reminds us that - - - - -
(1) All interviewing involves multicultural and diversity dimensions.
(2) Diversity includes areas often missed by definitions of multiculturalism such as experience with
trauma, social class, family background, and location and language.
(3) We will be spending a lifetime learning more about the many issues of diversity.
(4) All of the above.
The correct answer is: Option 4.
QUESTION 2
The four rules of professional–client relationships set forth and explained in transformative Counselling
Encounters are:
(1) Autonomy, privacy, respect, and confidentiality.
(2) Reliability, privacy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence.
(3) Respect for autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice.
(4) Reliability, privacy, confidentiality, respect and trustworthiness.
The correct answer is Option 4
QUESTION 3
The study unit on surveying life within the cracks teaches us - - - - -
(1) that by nature, human beings do not have the desire to solve their own problems hence a constant
pool towards falling within the cracks.
(2) to sympathise better with our clients.
(3) that we will not be able to solve our clients’ problems unless we succeed in identifying pathological
patterns in their behaviour.
(4) to think about people’s experiences of pain, suffering and strive from the context which they are part
of.
The correct answer is Option 4.
The study unit on surveying life within the cracks teaches us:
• be sensitive to contextual cues and understand that counselling and counselling-related processes
happen in context;
• see counselling as a way of being in relationship to others;
• understand the importance of having a frame of reference, and
• see the importance of language as a connective device that can enhance counselling encounters
and counselling-related processes.
QUESTION 4
Based on the discussion of privacy and confidentiality, what would be an example of a breach of privacy
that does not involve a breach of confidentiality?
(1) A person who does not have authorisation views a client's medical record on a hospital computer.
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PYC3705
Assignment 2 memorandum
Tutorial Letter 202/2/2020
Tutorial Letter 202/1/2019
Tutorial Letter 202/2/2019
Tutorial Letter 202/1/2018
Tutorial Letter 202/2/2018
Tutorial Letter 202/1/2017
Tutorial Letter 202/2/2017
Tutorial Letter 202/1/2016
Assignment questions and answers with explanations
, Memorandum Assignment 2 (Semester 2 2020)
QUESTION 1
The unique aspects of Transformative Counselling Encounters reminds us that - - - - -
(1) All interviewing involves multicultural and diversity dimensions.
(2) Diversity includes areas often missed by definitions of multiculturalism such as experience with
trauma, social class, family background, and location and language.
(3) We will be spending a lifetime learning more about the many issues of diversity.
(4) All of the above.
The correct answer is: Option 4.
QUESTION 2
The four rules of professional–client relationships set forth and explained in transformative Counselling
Encounters are:
(1) Autonomy, privacy, respect, and confidentiality.
(2) Reliability, privacy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence.
(3) Respect for autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice.
(4) Reliability, privacy, confidentiality, respect and trustworthiness.
The correct answer is Option 4
QUESTION 3
The study unit on surveying life within the cracks teaches us - - - - -
(1) that by nature, human beings do not have the desire to solve their own problems hence a constant
pool towards falling within the cracks.
(2) to sympathise better with our clients.
(3) that we will not be able to solve our clients’ problems unless we succeed in identifying pathological
patterns in their behaviour.
(4) to think about people’s experiences of pain, suffering and strive from the context which they are part
of.
The correct answer is Option 4.
The study unit on surveying life within the cracks teaches us:
• be sensitive to contextual cues and understand that counselling and counselling-related processes
happen in context;
• see counselling as a way of being in relationship to others;
• understand the importance of having a frame of reference, and
• see the importance of language as a connective device that can enhance counselling encounters
and counselling-related processes.
QUESTION 4
Based on the discussion of privacy and confidentiality, what would be an example of a breach of privacy
that does not involve a breach of confidentiality?
(1) A person who does not have authorisation views a client's medical record on a hospital computer.
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