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Stage Two: Becoming an Effective Counsellor

According to Meier and Davis (1997, p.61) “in no other profession does the personality and behavior of the professional make s

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

uch difference as it does in counseling. Beginning counselors need to work at increasing their self awareness as well as their knowledge of counseling procedures. Your willingnes

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

s to be open to supervision, to accept clients’ failures and criticisms, to participate in counseling yourself when appropriate, and to acknowledge your limits will contribute to

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

your eventual success and satisfaction”.

Acknowledging Values
The client-counsellor relationship is fundamentally a relationship between two human beings. Obviously

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

there are two different roles in the relationship but both counsellor and client have a history of experiences that have shaped who they are, how they view the world and what th

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

eir values are.

An effective client-counsellor relationship does not ignore the “human” side of the profession. To establish trust, clients need to sense that the counsellors ar

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

genuine and sincere in their communications. But when they begin to suspect their own biases, conflicting values or judgements are influencing their work with a client, it is cr

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

itical that they reflect upon this behaviour and seek to rectify it.

Critically reflecting in supervision, through journaling or personal inner work is required to establish an

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

appropriate plan of action.

Recognising Limitations
It is easy for inexperienced counsellors to fall into the trap of feeling solely responsible for their client’s

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

rogress. Counsellors do not possess a magic wand to solve all of life’s problems and it is important to remember that ultimately it is the client that makes choices in their own

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

life.

Counsellors can assist clients to think through options, explore motivators and hurdles, set goals, formulate plans of action and so on. A client, however, must assume the

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

responsibility for taking actions in order to accomplish progress in their life.

There are many aspects of the counselling relationship in which it is important to recognise th

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

limitations of counselling. When progress seems “stuck”, some of the best plans involve tolerating ambiguity, sharing responsibility with the client, re-establishing the role of

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

the counsellor and/or sharing information with a supervisor.

Drawing the Line
Maintaining a critical perspective towards the counsellor-client relationship is esse

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

ntial in order to avoid emotional burnout, misjudgement and unproductive distribution of power. “A common mistake for beginners is to worry too much about clients. There is a dan

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

er of incorporating clients’ neuroses into our own personality. We lose sleep wondering what decisions they are making. We sometimes identify so closely with clients that we lose

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

our own sense of identity and assume their identity. Empathy becomes distorted and militates against a therapeutic intervention” (Corey 2001, p. 34).

Reference:
Meier, S.

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

, & Davis, S. (1997). The Elements of Counselling. Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole.
Corey, G. (Ed). (2001). Theory and Practice of Counselling and Psychotherapy. Wadsworth: Thom

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

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tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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