First Counselling Session – Overview for Student Counsellors The first counselling session is different from any subsequent sessions. In the first session, you will put a counselling contract in place, discuss boundaries and the limitations of confidentiality. It also gives you as the counsellor an opportunity to assess the client’s needs as they explain their […]
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Introduction In counselling training courses, you will have to record your skills in order for these to be evaluated. While this might sound a really daunting prospect, getting into good habits on recording skills can really help your development as a counsellor. Carl Rogers himself was strongly in favour of recording sessions, and was one
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Recent Developments in Person-Centred Therapy: Carl Rogers and Beyond Recent developments in person-centred therapy have been cited in a number of books, in particular The Tribes of the Person-Centred Nation. Written by well-known voices in the world of humanistic therapy such as Nick Baker and Mick Cooper, it explores how the work and thinking of Carl Rogers developed
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Phenomenology in Counselling Carl Rogers, the ‘founding father’ of humanistic counselling, embraced Phenomenology in the Person Centred counselling model. Individual perception Conscious experience Developing meanings from our perceptions Frame of reference Phenomenology is an approach in philosophy which concentrates on the study of consciousness and how we experience the world. It focuses on: Phenomenological Theory of Personality Rogers
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How to Develop Empathic Understanding Counselling – Frame of Reference Frame of reference was first used by Carl Rogers, the founder of person-centred therapy, in 1959. He believed: “The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which
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Associate columnist and 'reporter at large' Barry Heap reminds us that having a unique personal identity is fine , however being catogorised and sterotyped for it is not. Barry writes a regular 'agony aunt' column for the online magazine thegayuk.com Stereotypes in counselling So another festive period has come and passed, presents have been exchanged and
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Third Person in the Counselling Room Recording Therapy Sessions with Clients Effective client contact is a sacred bond where client and practitioner grow and learn but does a recording device in the room change the dynamics? Part of studying counselling is examining our practice in professional discussion and having a recording of part of a
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The 4 Tasks of grieving is based on research undertaken by J. William Worden, Ph.D, currently a professor of Psychology at the Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University California. Worden, a prolific author on the subject of how grief is experienced by adults and children, publishised 6 books on the subject, co-authoring many more. His grief model moved away
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How to Survive Counselling Training (a students guide) is my first attempt at ‘writing’ . I offer you this ‘guide’ with the same mixture of trepidation and heady excitement I experienced on my very first day as a Diploma student at Tameside College in 2002. The guide was ‘born’ from a number of conversations through
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