Introduction
It is crucial to understand that counselling is the paradigm which comes up with some considerations. It is necessary to understand and implement the specific features of practice involve the aspect of counselling in the field of nursing. It is mandatory for the professional healthcare providers to formulate effective and comfortable interpersonal relationship with the client and the other colleagues to provide better health services to the individuals (Rønnestad and Skovholt, 2003). It is notable to mention that the aspect of boundaries is the crucial approach in case of the relationship of a professional with the client and with the other stakeholders. It is immensely critical for the counsellor to establish the balanced approach between the personal and professional relationships when it comes to working. Here the prime focus is to critically assess different personal and professional relationships and explain those professional associations with the service users.
Discussion
It is crucial for the healthcare providers to understand that the process of counselling is not all about to discover different issues and psychological difficulties concerning to the client. The prospect of counselling is the name of the mutual level of trust and confidence between both the parties (Remley and Herlihy, 2007). The facet of counselling can be observed in the different forms of relationships such as nurses’ relationship with the clients, with the managers, and the other individuals who closely associated with the phenomenon of proper counselling. It is necessary to understand that the prospect of counselling is crucial in the overall paradigm of proper health services to the patients. It is evident for the health providers to adopt the necessary features which encourage clients to openly and confidently discuss their problems without any hesitation. The indicators of trust and confidentiality help to make necessary inferences about the positive and negative form of counselling. It is also notable to mention that effective relationship at different levels of the health paradigm also demands to formulate the adequate level of difference between the personal and professional relationship (Gelso et al., 2014). The feature of counselling impacts the relationship of nurses with others stakeholders as it helps to understand the different boundaries concerning to the forming the association with the patients.
Effective interpersonal roles and styles play a major role to determine the effective relationship with the perspective of nurses. It is necessary for the nurses to focus the effective form of interpersonal communication on providing effective counselling environment. The prospect of counselling is closely determined by the influential role of peers. It is crucial to consider the emotional stability of the client, and it can be characterised as the main focus during the overall process of the counselling. The role of effective communication is the foundation of the provision of the better counselling services to the clients. The effective form of communication of nurses plays the crucial role to provide the necessary form of health services satisfaction to the patients. It is the ultimate manner of the assurance of the client’s satisfaction in more effective manner. It is necessary to critically assess the specific interpersonal roles and styles in case of nurses with the patients and the other healthcare providers to propose the better strategies for the development of professional and healthy association with the clients. Different specific roles and styles of communicating can be assessed in case of an effective form of association between the health providers and the clients. Different features and techniques of counselling are adapted to facilitate all the stakeholders and formulate an effective form of association between each other. Different strategies of counselling are adopted with the consideration related to the specific situations and the requirement of the clients or patients.
Effective selection of the counselling style plays a crucial role to meet the proper form of counselling needs and the efficient approach in the overall process of health and care provision. There is the existence of many counselling styles which can be helpful in the overall counselling process. Cognitive and behavioural therapies are considered as the two major forms of counselling styles which can be used by the health providers in the counselling process to attain the effective outcomes. The focus of the specific cognitive counselling style is to particularly focus on the thought process of the client and assess the specific patterns which play the role as negative stimuli in someone’s personality (Beck, 2011). It focuses on the negative thinking process of the clients and motivates them towards positivity. Counsellor adopts the different techniques of cognitive restructuring to change the behavioural pattern of the clients.
On the other hand, the main focus of the behavioural style adopted by the counsellor is to focus the behavioural patterns of the client. It comes up with the specific philosophy to change the problematic and negative behaviour of the clients to formulate a better interpersonal relationship with them. The counsellor tries to explore the positive change in the thought process and the interaction of the clients. This particular style of counselling can be considered as the positive approach to enhance the emotional recovery and stability of the clients.
The paradigm of the peer influence also plays a crucial role in the overall scenario of the professional relationship between the counsellor and the client. It is necessary to understand that the particular influence of the peer can be characterised in both the terms of positive and negative aspects. It is the responsibility of the counsellor to utilise the feature of peer influence most positively and effectively to provide better counselling facilities to the clients (Miller and Rose, 2009). Power in a relationship is another crucial determinant of the formation of the professional relationship between counsellor and the client. This particular aspect comes up with many issues related to the feature of power and ethics which needs to be considered by both the concerning parties of the overall process of counselling. There is the existence of the different features of power related to the overall counselling environment. It is crucial to understand that facet of the power in the overall counselling paradigm cannot be ignored. Effective outcomes of the counselling can only be achieved if counsellor adopts the better facet of power during the counselling session with the client. If counsellor negatively tries to influence the thinking and behavioural prospect of the client than it never delivers the positive outcomes of counselling.
Power is one of the most concern prospects in the overall process of counselling. The improper approach of counselling ultimately leads to the ineffectiveness in case of counselling. The improper implementation of the power can negatively impact the association of nurses with the other stakeholders, and it can be identified in the form nurses’ relationship with patients, managers, and the peers. There is the existence of the many research studies which address the improper use of power in the whole scenario of counselling therapy (Falender and Shafranske, 2004). The imbalance feature of power ultimately negatively impact the relationship between the counsellor and the client. It might be the reason for the stagnant approach by the clients to never share their emotional and psychological concern to the counsellors. It is essential to mention that mostly it is perceived that the feature of imbalance power exists in case of counselling. If there is the existence of the imbalance approach of power than it can negatively influence the association between the counsellor and the client.
Passive, aggressive, and assertive are known as the three important and most influential behavioural patterns in case of the overall process of counselling. The specific form of the behaviour of the counsellor plays a vital role to determine the professional relationship between the counsellor and the client. This particular feature can effectively apply in case of nurses’ association with the patients. It is crucial for them to adopt the specific strategies of behaviour by considering the behavioural approach of the clients or patients. On the other hand, the client’s behaviour can be explained in the three major forms of passive, aggressive, and assertive attitude patterns. It is necessary for the nurses to distinguish between the different behavioural approaches to effectively develop the effective relationship with the clients. The behavioural pattern of the client immensely influences the association between the counsellor and the client. The behavioural approach of aggressiveness can be defined as the approach of the power and ego-centric (Bettencourt et al., 2006). This sort of behaviour can be controlled through the effective, flexible approach by the counsellor. It is recommended for the nurses and the other healthcare providers to consider the specific approach of flexibility to deal with the aggressive behaviour of the patients. It can be applied in the case of necessary concern of peer and the managers. On the other hand, the passive behavioural approach is entirely different from the aggressive behavioural pattern. The passive client or patient can be identified as the person who gives all control to others to provide necessary directions. It is immensely feasible for the nurses to adopt the approach of health and care provision which is suitable with the paradigm of the patient’s behavioural approach. While the approach of assertive behaviour can be characterised as the balanced approach to behaviour. It is considered as the comfortable approach to formulating the professional balance relationship between client and the counsellor.
Different types of relationships between the service users and the particular professionals ultimately immensely influence the overall prospect of the counselling in the healthcare sector. A professional form of relationship can be identified in the different forms of formal, informal, and dual relationships. All the three forms of relationship can be observed by considering the necessary need. Formal and informal relationships are identified as the two most practice features in counselling. Formal relation comes up with the consideration of the professional relationship while the informal relationship is more like a comfortable conversation with the client to find the positive outcomes. Sometimes professional adopt the features of both the aspects of formal and informal forms to attain the better approach to counselling.
It is utmost crucial for the professionals to develop and maintain the effective form of professional relationships between colleagues and between workers to attain the better approach to performance. This particular facet comes up with many considerations. The most important feature of consideration is to maintain the balance form of power to sustain the effective relationships with the colleagues and the workers (Morrow and Smith, 2000). Positive behavior can be helpful for all the stakeholders to discuss their issues with each other in most comfortable manner.
Conclusion
Counselling is considered as the crucial paradigm to address the issues of clients by providing them with the comfortable approach to communication. The feature of counselling has an immense level of importance in case of the health sector. The prospect of counselling provides necessary guidelines to the nurses for formulating the effective and efficient association with patients, managers, and other colleagues. It is feasible for the counsellor to adopt the most effective strategies to establish and maintain an effective professional relationship with the clients. The counsellor should have the better consideration of the necessary boundaries in the formation of the relationship with the client. The facet of the adequate behavioural roles and styles also play a crucial role in the determination of the balance relationship with the clients. Effective understanding of the different behavioural patterns of the clients also significantly impact the relationship between the professional and the clients.
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