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From: UWSP 1st year grad, Wisconsin
Date: 21 Oct 2009
Time: 23:28:37 -0500
Remote Name: 24.197.249.189
I am enrolled in a counseling class this semester of my first year of my graduate program in communicative disorders. This is my favorite class. Counseling is a very large portion of therapy in many ways. If a clinician does not develop good rapport with a client and/or the client's parents or family members, therapy may not be a success. I think what makes a good therapist is listening to the client and his/her wants/needs and developing goals based on those wants/needs. A client needs to feel ownership in therapy for progress to exist. For my fluency class, one of our assignments was to pseudostutter in public so as to gain some experience as to what it may feel like to stutter. I enjoyed this assignment, however it was very intimidating as well. I now have some appreciation as to the anxiety that people who stutter may experience. Nonetheless, I have the option to not stutter.