Sage-Tips

What should you do if you encounter a situation that is beyond the scope of your role?

If you think a case is beyond your scope of practice, consider taking these additional steps: Talk to your client. Sharing your concerns with your client is the respectful, ethical and clinically appropriate thing to do, Zimmerman says.

What are the roles and responsibilities of a support worker?

What are the skills needed for a support worker? The key support worker skills and qualities include a number of transferable skills, such as literacy, numeracy, digital, interpersonal and problem solving skills. There are also specific skills that are required for this role.

Why is it important to have roles and responsibilities for providing support?

It is important to establish roles and responsibilities when providing support so things will run smoothly in the home. Your manager should give certain jobs to do on a daily basis so they know who to blame if something isn’t done.

Can therapists talk about their clients?

Generally, a professional therapist will severely limit how much they talk about their clients to others. But other, less-professional therapists may share the details of your case with non-professionals or their partner.

What is the difference between a carer and a support worker?

A Care giver delivers care to service users in their own home who often require palliative care. A Support worker provides support to individuals with learning disabilities who live in a supported living accommodation.

How do you deal with a rude client in therapy?

Say a client attacks the way a psychologist looks. Don’t react negatively, Brodsky says. Instead, encourage the client to say more about why you’re so unattractive. “Once you do that, you’re actually talking,” says Brodsky. Plus, if clients are rude with therapists, they’re often rude with others in their lives.

What do you do when a client curses at your therapist?

If a client curses at him, Hanna expresses his admiration for the client standing up for him- or herself. Doing so, he says, helps clients see that their therapists understand them. At least rudeness gives you something to work with, adds Brodsky. Say a client attacks the way a psychologist looks.

What to do when your client is resisting therapy?

“When the client is resisting the therapist and the therapist starts getting irritated with the client, then you have two people resisting each other,” he says. “That’s not therapy; that’s called war.” Instead, suggests Hanna, praise the client’s resistance.

Why do some clients refuse to go to therapy?

Other clients may just be rude. Some — whether they’re in court-mandated treatment or pushed into therapy by spouses or parents — just don’t want to be in therapy. Challenging clients aren’t just a problem for clinical and counseling psychologists, either.