Helping Relationships Reading Page

Description of Assignment

In this course, students learn about theory, research, and practice of helping relationships. In order to gain an understanding of how course material relates to helping relationships as practiced by professionals, students will write about helping relationships based on a reading an account of a helping relationship.

PAPER

Each student will write a paper applying the material from the course to these readings. The paper should included the following:

• Description of the excerpt that you read (Yalom, I. D., (1989). Love’s Executioner. Excerpt from Love’s Executioner & Other Tales of Psychotherapy (pp. 15-67). New York: Harper Collins.).
• Apply readings from the course to the reading (this is the most important part of the paper!). How did the chosen reading fit or not fit the theories, research, and descriptions from the course readings? You must use at least 5 readings from the course. You may use additional readings from outside the course, but you are not required to do so.
• How the chosen reading affects your approach to helping and future plans for engaging in helping relationships.

You don’t need to read these 5 articles, you only need to get a general understanding of the summary and central idea of ​​the article, so you can make a comparison between them and the main reading.