A strong relationship counselor-client is crucial to the success or failure of counseling. Henderson & Thompson (2011) explain that counselors focus all their attention to the child and not on the problem. Counselors “focus on the present than the past, feelings rather than thoughts and behaviors, understanding rather than explaining, accepting rather than correcting” (Henderson & Thompson, 2011, p. 193). This theory is relevant to the case because this theory is non-directive, it provides the client the opportunity to empower himself to achieve his full potential. This theory provides the client to become self-actualized, thus the counselor assists the client to achieve greater genuineness, learn to accept his present condition, and to understand his concept of self and his ideal self. This theory is a good fit, because the client lacks skills of communication in his second language, and he is extremely shy, which based on both problems, the child is having problems to fit in and to communicate with others. Person-Centered Theory (PCT) can help the client to be himself despite of his difficulty of communicating in English language rather than on his main language Spanish, and to break out of his shyness which leads to isolate himself, and to be targeted of bullying abuse. Also, the client can accept his problem, and can become motivated to learn his second language with diligence. As he surrounds himself with …show more content…
The counselor will refer the student to a professional that can help him with his dyslexia (ACA, ethical codes, 2014). Identifying and resolving the problem will help the client better his communication skills with others, he will be able to socialize with peers, and he will be able to communicate in the target language. The counselor will focus on how the child works with the problem, rather than focusing on the problem. The outcome will be the client improving his reading and writing skills in order to fit in with his