Transcribing a counseling session and then analyzing the
transcription are important and effective learning exercises that help
you to understand and further improve your counseling skills. Throughout
this counseling program, you will have several opportunities to conduct
a taped session for analysis.This first transcription assignment is in a
simplified form; you don’t have to transcribe a session. The transcript
of the counseling session you will view is already available; you just
have to copy and paste it to your document. You need to analyze and
develop alternative responses related to the foundational skills you
have learned.Watch the video of Carl Rogers (the video
titled “Client Centered Therapy”) in a live counseling session and use
the transcript of the video for this assignment.Tasks:In Rogers’ Tape Transcript Analysis Form template, copy and paste the counseling session transcript.Analyze Rogers’
responses that demonstrate any one or more of the skills you have
learned in this class. For each of his responses, list which specific
skills (including non-verbal skills) you see him implementing during the
session.If you were the
counselor, determine what you may have said or done differently.
Identify the specific counseling skill and explain how you would refine
it by either changing the wording of the response or selecting a
different type of response.Discuss in a 2- to 4-page
paper at least five things you found personally impacting, informative,
and/or of general interest. Make sure to relate the learning to your
personal development as a counselor.Your final product will be a Microsoft Word
document, written in APA format, and consist of approximately 2–4 pages
in length and the transcription analysis. Utilize 2–3 scholarly sources
in your research. Your paper should be written in a clear, concise, and
organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in the accurate
representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate
spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
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Rogers’ Tape Transcript Analysis Form
Counselor Trainee: _____________________
Content
Session Length: ______ Session Date: ___________
Intervention
Alternative
Intervention
Skill(s) Used
Alternative Specific Example of What might have said
Differently
Skill(s) Suggested
Transcription
(Exact dialogue, pauses, “sounds,” etc.)
Example Transcript
Counselor Trainee: __(Student’s Name Here)__________ Session Length: _30 minutes___
Content
Transcription
(Exact dialogue, pauses, “sounds,” etc.)
Notice how nonverbal are identified within the verbatim.
Intervention
Skill(s) Used
Include references to demonstrated
research supported interventions as
opposed to your personal opinion.
Impact
Effectiveness of
Intervention
Scaled 1-5
(1 being low,
5 highly effective)
Session Date: __06/21/15___
Alternative
Alternative Specific Example
of What might have said
Differently
Always come up with
something to show that you
are stretching yourself and
consideration of the identified
skills for this assignment.
Intervention
Skill(s) Suggested
Always come up with
something to show that you
are stretching yourself and
consideration of the identified
skills for this assignment.
Client: Whew, what a day…I’m struggling. I mean…
(fidgeting with bottom of sleeve and had down)…its
really my marriage most of all.
Therapist: Last session, you were concerned with your
marriage and that continues to be a concern.
Ummm….(cough) Can you help me understand what is
troubling you when you consider your marriage?
Summarization from previous
session (Cormier & Cormier,
1998)
3
Help me understand
more about the
struggling.
Reflective statement
Summarization
Clarification
Reflection of Content
Reflection of Feeling Word (i.e.,
“worried”; Cormier & Hackney,
2011)
2
You’re really worried
about these decisions.
Stick with content and
keep feeling word
expressed without asking
a question
Client: (Shifting in seat with head remaining low). Um,
I don’t know. Really. It’s just that things are right. I
need to make some decisions that’ll help me in the long
run. I don’t know what to do…I’m a little hesitant to
make a decision regarding my marriage.
Therapist: Okay, so you’re really concerned, worried,
and maybe a little hesitant about the consequences of
the decisions you are making right now?
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References
Cormier, S., & Cormier, B. (1998). Interviewing strategies for helpers: Fundmental skills and cognitive behavioral interventions. Belmont,
CA: Thomson Brooks/Cole Publishing Company.
Cormier, S., & Hackney, H. L. (2011). Counseling strategies and interventions. Upper Saddle, NJ: Pearson Higher Education.
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THE EVOLUTION OF PSYCHOTHERAPY A CONFERENCE DECEMBER 11-15, 19985
Phoenix, Arizona Copyright 1985
The following Workshop was videotaped at the Phoenix Civic Plaza on Wednesday, Dec. 11,
1985.
DUE TO THE HIGHLY TECHNICAL NATURE OF THE MATERIAL AND IN ORDER TO
PROTECT THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF THE SUBJECTS, THIS PROGRAM SHOULD BE
SHOWN ONLY TO PROFESSIONALS CONSISTING OF: PHYSICIANS, DENTIST,
PSYCHOLOGISTS, MASTERS LEVEL MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS, OR
GRADUATE STUDENTS IN ACCREDITED PROGRAMS IN THE ABOVE FIELDS.
The client-centered approach SPEAKERS: CARL R. ROGERS, Ph.d. Co-Faculty: RUTH C.
SANFORD, M.A.
00:40 Carl R. Rogers Now we have . . .okay?
Ruth C. Sanford There’s one thing I did want to say now we’re coming up to this, uh, choice of,
uh, volunteer, uh, client, uh, I would, and I’m sorry I should have said this before, it would be
helpful if you had, could just, note down a few, uh, things about yourself, a few statements about
yourself, a-, on a piece of paper with your name, uh, if you intend to, uh, come up and, uh,
volunteer, uh, as a, uh, client for this interview. Uh, we should have given you a little more time
for that, but, uh, maybe you can do it in a hurry.
01:15 Carl R. Rogers So we will take a break and those who are willing to volunteer for the
interview you can meet Ruth over in this corner, uh, and we’ll, we’ll, get together again in 15
minutes at the outside, 10 minutes start back, okay?
01:40 [sil.]
02:05 Carl R. Rogers Okay. Uh, I don’t know what might be of concern to you, but I’d certainly
be glad to, to hear.
02:15 Peteranne Bissitt Well, um, my problem kinda is old and new together. I, um, lost a set of
twins about two-and-a-half years ago, and for me, that was a first pregnancy and working on my
career and whatnot, I kind of put the pregnancy aside, thinking when I’m done with my career,
I’ll have children. And so that first pregnancy didn’t work out very well, and, with my age, I’m 35
now, as I’m getting older and I’ve been trying for two-and-a-half years to become pregnant and
have not done so successfully. I’ve kind of, you know, feel one, like a failure, um, and I think it
come from once I read a poem and the poem said that to have a child is to have your only chance
of making a miracle with God.
03:10 Carl R. Rogers Mm-hmm.
Peteranne Bissitt And I never looked at it that way before, I always thought pregnancy was the
pits, you were fat, you were ugly, and I didn’t enjoy my pregnancy at all. And when I did start to
enjoy it, that’s when I lost the twins and so now I’m upset that I can’t become pregnant, and it, but
right now at this minute I could be and that’s scary to me, too.
03:40 Carl R. Rogers Well, really it’s sort of a double problem that you would like pregnancy to
be something you would enjoy and, uh, yet when you begin to enjoy it you lost the twins. Uh,
and now, it really is a confusing situation, isn’t it though? Wanting a child very much, wanting
that miracle and yet not being sure. Mm-hmm.
04:05 Peteranne Bissitt Well, I think I’m sure that I want that.
Carl R. Rogers Okay.
Peteranne Bissitt I’m, I’m more afraid that if I am pregnant this very minute, that there’s loss
down the road.
04:15 Carl R. Rogers Mm-hmm. Ah. Mm-hmm. That’s where the past comes in (crosstalk)that
might end in tragedy again.
04:20 Peteranne Bissitt Right. Right.
Carl R. Rogers Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Peteranne Bissitt And it’s one of those points now where every month I wait to see if I’m
pregnant and every month I’m
Carl R. Rogers That’s a recurring issue.
04:35 Peteranne Bissitt Right. It never seems to get any better and I don’t, I don’t really discuss it
with anybody. I don’t talk to my husband about it, because he has the pain from the past as well.
04:45 Carl R. Rogers Uh huh, So it’s something that really has been quiet bound up in you,
where you haven’t felt free to talk about it.
04:50 Peteranne Bissitt Right, and I guess I question myself in a lot of ways too as, if I had made
attempts earlier would it have been easier.
05:00 Carl R. Rogers Should I have laid aside my career a little earlier and tried to become
pregnant?
05:05 Peteranne Bissitt Yeah, because now, I mean, when most of my friends are having children
and raising them, I have a job to go to that’s fun, and at four or five years ago, to me, you know,
I’m out in the world, I’m making money, I’m doing a good job, but, now there’s a lot of things
that I don’t have. Nobody to leave anything too, and it’s it’s a sad thing. Christmas is coming. It’s
probably on my mind more because I, uh, I would have had somebody that’s two-and-a-half, I
would have two little kids two-and-a-half years old.
05:40 Carl R. Rogers And so you’re asking, did I make a mistake?
Peteranne Bissitt Yeah. That’s, I guess that’s, that’s a scary thought to think that your whole life
has been a mistake along the way.
05:55 Carl R. Rogers Did I make a very grave error in not having made the attempt sooner?
06:00 Peteranne Bissitt Right. And I look at it that more and more things seem to play on it, the
pressure from my family. Uh, I’m an only child, so consequently my, my mother always would,
you know, wanted to have a grandchild. Uh, she has a terminal illness now and could possibly
die, I mean, it could go on forever, for a long time, but, as if I haven’t given them what they’d
like, too.
06:25 Carl R. Rogers Mm. But there’s a lot of pressure toward you must have a child, you must.
06:35 Peteranne Bissitt Yeah, and I, but I guess I, there’s, I think of so many things that go on
with that, with me. It’s, I, I believe you either win or you lose and to me right now I’ve lost.
06:50 Carl R. Rogers And that criteria, you feel, does win or lose, and you have lost?
Peteranne Bissitt Yeah, to me, to me, I always, I play games, I do things to win.
06:55 Carl R. Rogers Oh, I see.
Peteranne Bissitt And in the pregnancy, you know, I wanted to win, to have this child and instead
I lost. And I don’t like to play things that I can lose.
07:10 So that’s one game, a very important game, that you feel you lost?
07:15 Peteranne Bissitt Yeah.
Carl R. Rogers And you’re the kind that likes to win.
07:20 Peteranne Bissitt Definitely. Definitely. And I, I like to make people happy as well, and I
know my husband, my parents, all those other people, would want, you know, a child, an
offspring, a grandchild as well as I would like one. You know, it’s not like I’m just trying to do it
for somebody else, I think there’s that part of me that says, you know, this is normal, this is
proper, you lost twins. How can you replace, what can you do to have that?
07:55 Carl R. Rogers So you’d like to, not only satisfy yourself, but all these other people too.
08:00 Peteranne Bissitt I don’t think everybody would be happy in the long run and me
especially.
08:05 Carl R. Rogers It just means a tremendous lot.
Peteranne Bissitt Yeah. I, I don’t think there’s anything that I could, if I, if I cannot have children,
I guess I would have to deal with that, but I don’t think there’s anything I can replace that with. I
don’t think, career used to be extremely important to me and now that’s not the ultimate thing in
my life.
08:30 Carl R. Rogers So if you don’t have a child, that really leaves a terrible gap.
08:35 Peteranne Bissitt A, yeah, a very big void for me.
Carl R. Rogers A big void. Mmm.
Peteranne Bissitt Right . I know I have a very loving, nice, wonderful husband, and I care about
him a great deal, but there’s that extra thing that we could share together, you know, out of the
love that we do have, and somehow I feel cheated.
08:55 Carl R. Rogers You feel cheated out of something that would enrich your marriage as well
as you?
09:05 Peteranne Bissitt Yeah.
09:10 [sil.]
09:15 Peteranne Bissitt And like I said, with the possibility of being pregnant right now, there’s
just, it’s like I don’t want, I don’t believe I’m telling a whole crowd of people this, but I don’t
really want to tell anybody this because, I’m afraid of, you know, of the loss and yet it bothers
me tremendously.
09:35 Carl R. Rogers I can understand that. That it, uh, it’s kind of thing of mentioning it might,
might be superstitious or wrong or something. It might, might.
09:45 Peteranne Bissitt Well that and I guess if I am pregnant I would like it to be, nobody
knows until I can really really tell and that maybe it’s gonna last that time.
09:50 Carl R. Rogers Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So that in many ways it’s something you still wanna
keep to yourself , and yet find yourself telling a lot of people.
10:05 Peteranne Bissitt Yeah. As far as, you know, as telling anybody my, my possible
condition, that I haven’t done, and I don’t know, it’s something I’m not gonna tell my parents. I
don’t even think I’ll tell my husband for quite a while.
10:25 Carl R. Rogers So it really is something highly personal and kept within and easier to talk
about to strangers than it is to people that mean a lot to you.
10:30 Peteranne Bissitt Yeah, because the people that mean a lot to me could get hurt again.
10:35 Carl R. Rogers You don’t want to lead them on and then, (crosstalk)bingo, another tragedy.
10:40 Ms. Peterand And I. No. No. Not like the last one.
10:45 Carl R. Rogers It’ll be very hard.
10:55 [sil.]
11:05 Peteranne Bissitt I, I don’t know, I guess maybe I should just see what comes of it. You
know, except if something good comes, fantastic, if something bad comes, then I’m hurt again.
Nobody else is.
11:15 Carl R. Rogers Uh, I see. Uh-huh. If you keep it to yourself and it all works out then great
for everybody.
11:25 Peteranne Bissitt Right.
Carl R. Rogers If it’s a tragedy again, that’s for you alone.
11:30 Peteranne Bissitt Yeah. I, I guess, maybe I think that I have some guilt left over from the
last time. I think, whenever you, you know, even though it was a premature birth, if you lose a
child I think you place some guilt on yourself, and um, I don’t know, I guess I just do wondering
if I shouldn’t have done certain things and whatnot.
11:55 Carl R. Rogers Could I have made a difference, could I have done something differently?
12:00 Peteranne Bissitt Right. And I try to, you know, in my head say no, you, you had a less
schedule than you usually have, you where more calm, you where resting more. I say all those
things to myself, logically, but when you go through the loss , there’s, and there’s no answer, then
you’re kind of stuck with, well, I was the keeper and didn’t do well.
12:20 Carl R. Rogers Uh-huh, uh-huh. So your mind says you were doing as well as you could
possibly do, but something in you says well, but maybe, maybe you could have done something.
You where the keeper and you did lose.
12:40 Peteranne Bissitt Yeah. And I think that’s, part of that though is the reason that I, I still
want to have the child. Not only do I want one, but I fight back and say Hey, you know, this
doesn’t happen to me”.
12:50 Carl R. Rogers Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. I’m a winner.
12:55 Peteranne Bissitt Yeah. And, and see that it comes again into things like, I’ve always had
everything I wanted, you know. I was an only child, I was probably a little spoiled, uh, I had a
job, I had a career, I’ve had money, I have a house, you know, I have a decent marriage. I have
all the things that sometimes people make comments about of oh, now she has everything, and
that one thing that I wanted I didn’t get.
13:20 Carl R. Rogers Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. So we look as though you’ll get everything, not
quite, not the important thing you want.
13:30 Peteranne Bissitt No, which then turns things into, for me into a failure aspect. Not doing
well, of being the failure.
13:35 Carl R. Rogers Yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. So at some level, to yourself you’re a
failure.
13:45 Peteranne Bissitt Yeah. But, I suppose all I can do is keep working at it maybe. Of course,
then there’s the biological time clock. And so not everything is in my corner.
14:05 Carl R. Rogers That’s right.
Peteranne Bissitt And usually I can work on things or put things into perspective and do things
that I have some control, and this is something I don’t have control of.
14:15 Carl R. Rogers Mm-hmm. That’s right. There’s some things you can’t manage, you can’t
manipulate. You can’t control.
14:20 Peteranne Bissitt Nope, not this one. At least I don’t see that I can.
14:25 Carl R. Rogers And you’re the kind of person who is accustomed to controlling things,
getting things your way.
14:30 Peteranne Bissitt Yes. Hasn’t worked out bad so far, except for that aspect.
14:35 Carl R. Rogers Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. In a lot of ways that’s worked fine but not here.
14:45 Peteranne Bissitt No. And I, I, there is no way to have the control. I mean, I don’t know, if
it’s God or fate or whatever that’s gonna make that determination but it, it’s out of my control.
(crosstalk)
15:00 Carl R. Rogers I didn’t get the last.
Peteranne Bissitt It’s out of my control even, even though I have different kinds of, you know,
medical support that say that I’m healthy and normal and that everything is fine, and you know, I
go to a specialist at this time so I can try to make things work better. Uh, the things that used to
working right anyway, so, you know, then I’m back inside myself again with well, what’s wrong
with me, why isn’t this working. How hard can it be?
15:25 Carl R. Rogers Mm-hmm. That seems to be evidence to you there must be something
wrong with me.
15:30 Peteranne Bissitt Yeah. There’s nobody else’s body that’s not functioning correctly, its
mine.
15:45 Carl R. Rogers So this body of yours is something that in this respect you really can’t
control.
15:50 Peteranne Bissitt Nope. And I mean that, and I do everything to even try, you know, I do
everything the doctor says. I eat the right foods. I try stay in halfway decent shape so that I’m
healthy. And even that, with the loss, nobody could understand how I would lose a child, being
as healthy as I am. You know, I’m active and not the sickly type.
16:15 Carl R. Rogers But there’s no reason at all for not having a child except that you don’t have
one.
16:20 Peteranne Bissitt So they tell me. But, uh, you know, no matter how logically the, even the
doctor tells me, you know, it’s a matter of time, it’s a matter of time. Something’s not functioning
properly. Otherwise it would be right, it would be there.
16:40 Carl R. Rogers And so that brings that sense of failure, huh?
16:45 Peteranne Bissitt To me, yes. And I, I guess I want to succeed and I want everything that I
want. And then I, then I look at things and I see that I would give up. I would rather give up my
career to have a child, if I didn’t have a house that’s fine I could do something else, but, um, I
can’t seem to, to win at that aspect.
17:10 Carl R. Rogers If there were some sacrifice you could make in return for having a child,
sure you’ make it.
17:15 Peteranne Bissitt Yeah, I would. I would. I would do whatever had to be done. You know,
when I make my vows that if I do have a child I would be the best little parent, all this good
stuff, but, which then . . .
17:35 Carl R. Rogers Really touches you that you just promise to do everything right.
17:40 Peteranne Bissitt Yeah, I do.
Carl R. Rogers Mm-hmm. If.
Peteranne Bissitt Yeah, if. And, and I don’t know without the, without the control, I just have to
wait I guess.
18:00 Carl R. Rogers But it’s hard not to have the control.
18:05 Peteranne Bissitt Yeah, if I the control, you know, it would be done and everything would
be fine and I’d push the clock back and I’d have a nice little family, a little boy, a little girl,
everything would be perfect.
18:15 [sil.]
18:20 Carl R. Rogers That sounds as though there’s some grieving over what might have been.
Peteranne Bissitt Well, I, I think there is, to a degree. I don’t think that, I think that I dealt with
that loss fairly well, that, you know, it’s not something that I totally dwell on, and yet with the
thought of a pregnancy there’s the thought of what happened. Um, with the thought of Christmas,
there’s always the thought of that we visit the grave, and all those things come up, and creates
some sadness.
18:50 Carl R. Rogers That tragedy keeps being looped over again.
18:55 Peteranne Bissitt Yeah.
Carl R. Rogers Especially, perhaps, at this season.
19:00 [sil.]
19:05 Peteranne Bissitt Yeah.
Carl R. Rogers So the grief is still is still there.
19:10 Peteranne Bissitt Well, the gr-, I think the grief comes and goes. Now there’s sometimes
that are fine, and, you know, that is rational and logical to me, and then there is other times that,
depending on where I am and whom I’m with, and what’s about, and what children are there, you
know, things pass through my mind.
19:30 Carl R. Rogers It can hit you.
Peteranne Bissitt Yeah, it does, it comes and goes.
19:40 [sil.]
20:10 Peteranne Bissitt I had to say that you made it easy to talk about this, though.
Carl R. Rogers I’m sorry?
Peteranne Bissitt You’ve made it easy to talk about this. Somehow I, I get the feeling that you,
uh, and I don’t think that you can understand, I don’t think that you can feel that same feeling, but
I think that you can be empathetic with the situation.
20:25 Carl R. Rogers You know I can’t feel it in my body what you feel in yours, but at least I
have made it easier for you.
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