1. Listen
Listening is a crucial skill in psychological counseling. Here are some listening skills:
Pay attention to posture: sit at the same height as your child, keep open body language, such as smiling and maintaining eye contact.
Pay attention: listen attentively to the children and avoid interrupting or interrupting them.
Use positive responses: Encourage children to continue to express their thoughts and feelings through positive responses, such as using positive words or simply repeating their words.
Express your feelings.
Children will experience various emotions and emotions when they grow up, and expressing these emotions is an important part of children's mental health. Here are some tips to help children express their feelings:
Use painting or handcraft: Encourage children to express their feelings through painting or handcraft, such as painting a happy scene or making a handcraft that represents their feelings.
Create a safe environment: create a safe and warm environment and let children freely express their feelings, whether positive or negative.
Role-playing: Through role-playing, let children simulate emotional expression in different situations and help them better understand and handle their emotions.
Establish a relationship of trust
Establishing trust relationship is very important for psychological counseling. Only on the basis of trust will children be more willing to share their inner world with psychological counselors. Here are some tips for building a trust relationship:
Respect individual differences: every child is a unique individual, and counselors need to respect their individual differences and not force them to change.
Consistency: When treating children, counselors need to be consistent, so as not to cause confusion or confusion to children.
Provide support and encouragement: counselors should give children positive support and encouragement to make them feel understood and accepted.
establish co-operative ties (with)
Psychological counseling is a cooperative work, which requires counselors to establish good cooperative relations with key groups such as parents and teachers. Here are some suggestions for establishing a cooperative relationship:
Communication and consultation: communicate with parents and teachers regularly, understand the performance of children at home and school, and negotiate and formulate corresponding psychological counseling programs.
Provide resources and support: provide parents and teachers with relevant psychological counseling resources and support to help them better cope with their children's psychological problems.
Establish a relationship of mutual trust: establish a relationship of mutual trust with parents and teachers through a sincere and friendly attitude, and * * * care about children's mental health.