Examples of Peer Responses Here are three examples of peer responses that will likely earn no points: 1. Good post! Well done! Thanks for making me think differently about this. 2. Wow, that was a great post! I agree with you 100% on X. What are your thoughts on Y? 3. Thanks for your thoughts on the client. What do you think about open ended questions? What, if anything, would you do differently if your client was an alcoholic? Here are three examples of strong peer responses containing a minimum of 100 words: 1. PEER RESPONSE TO STUDENT             I think I agree with everybody to one extent or another in this discussion. As George mentioned, Freud is challenging to me because of the association of sexual terms with childhood development. While his approach has contribute so much to the field of psychology and counseling, it is difficult for me to accept some of his views. It is difficult for me to get around his views about Oedipus for boys and Electra for girls. I also have issues with the concept that personality is completely formed in childhood (Levitt & Bray, 2010). Perhaps it is. Perhaps I am just being optimistic that some changes are still possible. Perhaps I am not understanding what Freud intended to define as personality versus how our personality responds to events and subsequently drives behaviors. As Kaiko has noted, though, I cannot deny the impact my childhood has had on the rest of my life, my behaviors, and my decision to be a counselor now. Within the context of psychodynamic theories, I lean towards Adlerian theory because it still acknowledges the impact of childhood while allowing for the possibility of growth and a sense of the client as "whole" not fractured (Levitt & Bray, 2010, p. 103). REFERENCE: Levitt, D.H. and Bray, A (2010). Chapter Four: Theories of Counseling. In Erford, B.   (Ed.) Orientation to the Counseling Profession: Advocacy, Ethics, and Essential Professional Foundations (p. 95-123). Upper Saddle River, NJ. Pearson Education, Inc. 2. PEER RESPONSE TO STUDENT            I thought it was very creative of you to construct possible statements for Mike and Jan based on the information in the vignette. I wonder what would be different if you had addressed the positive experience they had over the weekend. I also thought your responses were appropriate for each of the types assigned to us. I do have a concern about one portion of your paraphrase response. You stated, "I am sorry that you feel overwhelmed by the amount of arguing" (2010, July 8). I wonder if this is a type of counter-transference. Sheperis and Ellis (2010) describe counter-transference as a "projection of beliefs, emotions, or experience... from the counselor to the client" (p. 139). While at first glance it may not seem like "I'm sorry" is a judgment of the client's current state, the client may feel otherwise. It inserts your feelings into the client's reality. I think sometimes this is appropriate, but most of the time it is a perso ...

1. Examples of Peer Responses
Here are three examples of peer responses that will likely earn
no points:
1. Good post! Well done! Thanks for making me think
differently about this.
2. Wow, that was a great post! I agree with you 100% on X.
What are your thoughts on Y?
3. Thanks for your thoughts on the client. What do you think
about open ended questions? What, if anything, would you do
differently if your client was an alcoholic?
Here are three examples of strong peer responses containing a
minimum of 100 words:
1. PEER RESPONSE TO STUDENT
I think I agree with everybody to one extent or another
in this discussion. As George mentioned, Freud is challenging
to me because of the association of sexual terms with childhood
development. While his approach has contribute so much to the
field of psychology and counseling, it is difficult for me to
accept some of his views. It is difficult for me to get around his
views about Oedipus for boys and Electra for girls. I also have
issues with the concept that personality is completely formed in
childhood (Levitt & Bray, 2010). Perhaps it is. Perhaps I am
just being optimistic that some changes are still possible.
Perhaps I am not understanding what Freud intended to define
as personality versus how our personality responds to events
and subsequently drives behaviors. As Kaiko has noted, though,
I cannot deny the impact my childhood has had on the rest of
my life, my behaviors, and my decision to be a counselor now.
Within the context of psychodynamic theories, I lean
towards Adlerian theory because it still acknowledges the
impact of childhood while allowing for the possibility of growth

2. and a sense of the client as "whole" not fractured (Levitt &
Bray, 2010, p. 103).
REFERENCE:
Levitt, D.H. and Bray, A (2010). Chapter Four: Theories
of Counseling. In Erford, B.
(Ed.) Orientation to the Counseling Profession: Advocacy,
Ethics, and Essential Professional Foundations (p. 95-123).
Upper Saddle River, NJ. Pearson Education, Inc.
2. PEER RESPONSE TO STUDENT
I thought it was very creative of you to construct
possible statements for Mike and Jan based on the information
in the vignette. I wonder what would be different if you had
addressed the positive experience they had over the weekend.
I also thought your responses were appropriate for each of the
types assigned to us. I do have a concern about one portion of
your paraphrase response. You stated, "I am sorry that you feel
overwhelmed by the amount of arguing" (2010, July 8). I
wonder if this is a type of counter-transference. Sheperis and
Ellis (2010) describe counter-transference as a "projection of
beliefs, emotions, or experience... from the counselor to the
client" (p. 139). While at first glance it may not seem like "I'm
sorry" is a judgment of the client's current state, the client may
feel otherwise. It inserts your feelings into the client's reality. I
think sometimes this is appropriate, but most of the time it is a
personal reflex that should be left out. The times I have found it
appropriate are when a client has gone through an awful trauma
and needs the acknowledgment that what happened was not okay
by any means. Arguing could lead to positive changes. Maybe it
is not such a bad thing. If the counselor is sorry the client is
having a bad experience then it kind of validates it as a bad
experience instead of leaving the possibility open for it to be a
good experience in the end. "I'm sorry" is perceived as such a
benign, well-intentioned sentiment that it is difficult to explain
the subtle shift in client response it can create. Just a thought.

3. REFERENCES:
Lastname, F. (2010, July 8). Counseling process and skills
[Online forum content].
Retrieved
from http://sylvan.live.ecollege.com/ec/crs/default.learn?Co
urseID=4199853&Survey=1&47=7225359&ClientNodeID=9846
42&coursenav=1&bhcp=1
Sheperis, D. & Ellis, C (2010). Chapter Five:
The Counseling Process. In Erford, B. (Ed.)
Orientation to the Counseling Profession: Advocacy, Ethics, and
Essential Professional Foundations (p. 124-147). Upper Saddle
River, NJ. Pearson Education, Inc.
3. PEER RESPONSE TO STUDENT
You and many others in the class (2010, July 26-31)
note Satcher, Friel, and Bell's (2000) statistic regarding the
increase in disaster reporting over the last 30 years as one
justification for current call for increased focus on disaster/
crisis counseling. Since this happens to be my area of focus, my
question to you is a devil's advocate question. Wars and natural
disasters have occurred throughout history. Do you believe that
the increase in the reporting (emphasis on that word) of these
events is justification enough to create a sub-specialty within
mental health counseling? If not, bearing in my mind that these
types of disasters have always occurred and so have their PTSD
effects, what would justify the creation of this sub-specialty?
REFERENCES:
COUN-6100-29 Introduction to Mental
Health Counseling Students [Multiple student
postings]. (2010, July 26 through 31.) Crisis management and
response [Online forum content]. Retrieved
from http://sylvan.live.ecollege.com/ec/crs/default.learn?Course
ID=4199853&Survey=1&47=7225359&ClientNodeID=984642&

4. coursenav=1&bhcp=1
Satcher, D., Friel, S., & Bell, R., (2000). Natural
and manmade disasters and mental
health. Journal of the American Medical Association, 298(21),
2540-2542.