PYC3715 Assignment Portfolio Semester 2 2026 - Due 1 September 2026 ( Distinction)

PYC3715 Assignment Portfolio Semester 2 2026 - Due 1 September 2026 ( Distinction) Initial Instruction: Your are required to conduct a one-to-one/individual, interview with a person in your community who is facing a difficulty/problem. To maintain objectivity, this person should not be a friend or family member. Your goal is to practice foundational counselling skills in a real-world context. The task: Find a person to interview about a problem or difficulty they are experiencing. The person could be anybody except a friend or family member. Interview the person about the problem or difficulty they are experiencing and provide a report on how you performed the following counselling actions: Question 1 - The interviewee’s story Provide a brief summary of the person’s story, focusing on the core of the problem and its impact on their life. Use a pseudonym and not the person’s real name. (Limit: 1 paragraph). (10 Points) Question 2 - Creating the interview context Describe practical steps that you took to set up the interview. How did you arrange the physical space, build rapport and manage the encounter to make it conducive for your interview? Report the challenges you experienced and how you managed them. (10 Points) Question 3 - Contextual Analysis & Reflexivity a) Life story and Reflexivity: Briefly summarise the unique life experiences of your interviewee that form the context of their current problem. Then reflect on your own life. How did you consciously apply the principle of reflexivity to guard against your own life experience contaminating or influencing your understanding of their story? That is, how did you guard against your own biases?. (15 Points) b) Social context impact : How did you survey the context of your interviewee’s experience? That is, what are the unique social issues that impact on, or shape, your interviewee’s experience of their problem? Refer to facts/data from psychology and other social science literature to demonstrate your understanding of the social issue impacting on your interviewee’s context (10 Points)