HIV/AIDS COUNSELLINGCOURSE
BLOEMFONTEIN ATICCMr. Motseki Motlatla
Reviewing personal awareness: world view and self awareness
Selection criteria for the course Understanding of English
Passion for the subject
Prepared to attend the course full and complete all modules concern
Writing of the examination paper.
Pass mark should be above 75%
MODULE: WORLD VIEW
OBJECTIVES: Reflect on the impact of HIV/AIDS issues on
oneself as counsellor Demonstrate understanding of the impact of
prejudice, values and culture in counselling Demonstrate ability to identify personal
strengths and weaknesses Demonstrate insight into the impact of one’s
characteristics on interaction with others
MODULE: WORLD VIEW CONT.
World view
Self awareness
Values and attitudes
Cross cultural communication participants
METHOD
Self awareness:
1. What is self awareness:
2. Definition
3. Why is self awareness in counselling
4. Why is it important in the training of counsellors
World view What is a world view?
The importance of developing consciousness of issues about which is sensitive related to one’s past and present circumstances and experiences
The impact of own beliefs and values on the way in which we respond to others
Participants develop a consciousness of their own trigger incidents
Think how you will respond if the following were said to you
What issues are particular sensitive ones for you?
How could you best deal with them?
Task 1: Questionnaires
Let the participants discuss the statements
Show time count down
Each statement for 1 minute
Show each statement at a time for discussion purpose
Statements to be discussed1. Have you always been quite overweight?
2. People like you always think you know better than people like us.
3. Its your race group that is responsible for South Africa’s problem now.
4. Women have a tendency to be catty to other women. That’s why its best to always have some men in the group.
Why don’t you have children/ have more children.
I don’t think you’ve prepared well for this session.
Perhaps you’re not cut out for this type of work if you’re feeling so upset by what I’ve said.
What qualification do you have in order to carry out this type of work.
Quite frankly I don’t see the point of this exercise!
Two minutes per statement
Brainstorm one positive and one negative generalization/stereotype for each of the listed categories on the worksheets
These need not represent your own view but stereotypes commonly held within our society at large
Self awareness and world view
How did you feel about stating the negative stereotype?
How did you feel about the negative stereotype raised about group, which represent you?
How do think that these stereotype could impact the counselling situation?
People often hesitate to raise the negative stereotypes.
However given the opportunity to raise general stereotype they tend to freely express some of their own without having to own them
People find difficult to hear the negative statement about groups with which they identify.
Stereotype often result from fear and misunderstanding.
Encourage mutual respect and understanding
Value difference rather than having to see ourselves as better or worse
Self concept
1. The way we see ourselves influences the way we behave and the way we respond to the behavior of others towards us
Self awareness allows us to discriminate between our own problem and that of others.
Without the self awareness we may run the risk of of imaging that everyone else has the same problem that we do.( called projection)
Three stages in developing self awareness
First stage: unskilled stage
The person is unaware of the range of possible skills, intervention available to them
Tendency to believe that we are born counsellors; skill will either come natural or not be developed at all.
Second stage: gradual awareness
Gradually the person become aware of the possible range of intervention and feels less clumsy as a results
Third stage : increased skill
Skill and intervention are absorbed in person and we become skilled.
Conscious use of self, become normal, no longer feels so clumsy. Respond easily,readily.
Self concept is shaped by
Personal factors
Personal circumstances
Experience
Culture and religious beliefs
Social context
World view
World view refer to the way in which we perceive the world – our values and beliefs, attitude etc.
Each human being is unique
We all have our own perception of the world and the people in it
It comes from media,experiences and social upbringing
There are always particular issues or behavior that provoked particularly strong reaction in us.
These situations arise because of our past and sometime present experiences and sometimes trigger reaction in us that may be destructive
They may also relate to differences in beliefs and values
We need to find constructive ways of dealing with them
ATTITUDES
Objective of this session explore your own attitude towards people
at risk. Explore their attitude towards people
infected and affected with HIV/AIDS Demonstrate understanding of how
personal attitude may influence the counselling process.
Debate the following statement
Promiscuous people are at risk of contracting HIV.
Sex workers place men at risk of becoming infected with HIV.
Drug users are weak-willed persons
Debriefing
How did you feel exposing your values to others?
What was it like to see others disagree with you?
How did you feel? How did it feel to listen to different views
without trying to change others opinion?
POEM
Alone and frightenedOut there, alone and frightened
Of the darkness, the days are longLife is hiding, no more making new contact
No more loving arms thrown around my neckTake my hand now, I ‘m tired and lonely
Give me love, give me hopeDon’t desert me. Don’t reject me
All I need is love and understandingToday it’s me, tomorrow someone else
its me and you, we’ve got to stand up and fight
We’ll shed a light in the fight against aidsIn times of joy, in times of sorrow
Let”s take a stand and fight on to the endWith open hearts, let’s stand out
And speak out to the world- we’ll save some lives
Save the children of the worldLet’s be open, advise the young onesA new generation to protect and love
Hear them singing, playing, laughingLet’s give them everything in truth and love
Take the message, cross the frontiersBreak the barriers, we’ll fight together
The doors are open, we’ll lead the struggle We won’t bow down in defeat, we’ll fight on…..
Died of aids, 15 December 1989
By Phil Bonguley Lutaaya