Chapter 9 Questions

Having watched all Module 5 videos and reviewed Chapter 13 of Healing Relationships: A Christian's Manual for Lay Counseling, please answer the following questions and submit your responses below. 

1. What are your competence boundaries in the area of counseling? How did you determine them?
2. Why is it sometimes difficult for counselors to accept the fact they cannot help some people? How can this be overcome?
3. Should lay counselors counsel with members of the opposite sex? Why? Under what circumstances?
4. Are you aware of qualified professionals and agencies in your community to whom you could refer people? How could you find them?
5. Why should a lay counselor avoid playing physician, lawyer, or therapist?