Question

. Reflect on and discuss the primary stressors that face you at this stage of your life. What strategies do you have for managing stress?

2. In what ways do you take care of yourself? What obstacles might stand in the way of these activities?

3. Describe what your concerns are at this stage of your training and education.

4. Discuss some ways to maintain a client’s privacy. How might a practitioner unintentionally violate a client’s privacy?

5. What do you think are the ethical risks in using electronic communication with clients?

Answer 1

Put in simple language, anything that causes physical, mental or emotional turmoil is called stress. Stressors maybe external ( environmental, social reasons) or internal (major health issue). Keeping this in mind:

1. The primary stressors faced more at this stage of life are mostly external issues that include unexpected obligations to be adhered to, i.e: anything that calls for immediate attention and resolution. Anything that goes beyond or out of the regular flow of the day causes stress. This in turn gives rise to internal stress, i.e..changes in the body functioning (low sugar levels, trembling legs). However, as practice makes perfect, so does previous experience makes one cautious.

Of the many strategies for managing stress, the foremost used and and working most for me are

- time management : trying to be on time for all tasks to be completed and if possible, try to be before time if circumstances allow. However, this is not to say that "not being on time will create more stress", but just as simple as complete tasks on hand and not postponing it.

- giving proper priority: as simple as not fretting over trivial tasks, and giving priority to more worthy tasks on hand.

These strategies go along way in helping manage stress.

2. Regarding ways of taking care; one that stands out the most is the activity of reading and taking daily walks. These two activities work well, as one takes you into another world not physically seen but only experienced, and the latter lets you ponder and makes you refreshed.

3. Irrespective of the training or education that I may be facing at this stage of life, the primary concern is mostly about meaning and proper usage of life. It would not be wrong to say that the actual usage of time and gaining the actual abundance of knowledge available are the prime concerns as time seems to going by just by the blink of the eye.

4. The ways of ensuring a clients privacy would be as follows:

- safe guarding online sessions: with the social media on a boom, it becomes highly important that the online sessions taking place be highly guarded by certain protective software, as the possibility of it being leaked always stands.

- shredding certain hard copy files: certain informative data that may have been important at one point in the session, may not hold to important later on into the session. Hence shredding those documents may be fine.

Unintentionally, a therapist may violate a clients privacy by sharing his details as a case study without getting a approval by the client. This could lead to mistrust and feeling of being cheated.

5. The ethical risks in using electronic communication with clients are as follows:

- as chatting or video conversations may be convinient, they do are not capable of capturing the clients actual mood, as they do not provide the one to one touch as in an actual therapy room.

- actual therapy or intervention therapy also may be questionable as wherther the client is performing as per the words of the therapist would not be clear.

-