Fourth Interview Questions

1. What is important in a therapist - counselor relationship?
2. How do you maintain the relationship?
3. How do you ensure consistent sessions with clients?
4. How can you ensure your client is telling the truth or  is keeping information when being assessed?
5. How important is it for the therapist to be involved in how the client is receiving the right meds?
6. How do you ensure a client is taking their medications, if any?
7. What are benefits to family support in a client’s struggle?
8. How involved do you keep families in the client’s situation?
9. When it comes to families, how much do you keep confidential?
10. What do you do if a client has no family to go to or get support from?
11. What are some guidelines when assessing a client?
12. What is expected from you as a therapist during a session?
13. Is communicating with your client outside of therapy appropriate?
14. In what situations is communication with a client appropriate or necessary?
15. How do you get a patient to self -realization of their issue if they are facing denial or are unaware?
16. What are some methods that usually work when trying to retrieve information from a client or getting them to open up comfortably?
17. What methods are risky or tend to not work?
18. How do you benefit from the counseling?
19. Does counseling ever take a toll on you as a therapist?
20. What methods or forms of counseling work best for a client?

Blog 6 - Second Interview Preparation

1. Who's your mentor and where do they work?
          Joanne Carr is my mentor and she works at Presbyterian Inter-community Hospital (PIH).


2. What five questions will you ask them about their background?
          - Where did you start your education and why?
          - What caused you to change what you wanted to do?
          - Would you recommend what you do to me or others?
          - What benefits do you receive from your position now and where you work?
          - How is working in a hospital, what don't you like?

Blog 4: Interview Preparation

1. Who do you plan to interview?
          I plan to interview my mentor, Joanne Carr.

2. What questions do you plan to ask?
         -I'm interested in studying counseling. What can you tell me about it?
         -From your perspective, what could I study that would be significant?
         -Who else would you recommend I talk to?
         -What kinds of places or activities do you recommend I do for the mentorship         component?
        -What books should I read in this field?
        -Is there anyway to work around rules to observe a patient?
        -What qualities and skills are vital with the work you do?
       - What past jobs or experiences led you to this point?