Professiona and Organisational Issues in Counselling
Learning Outcome 1- Understand what is meant by Counselling
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The term counselling facilitates personal and interpersonal functioning across the lifespan with the main focus on emotional, vocational, social, educational, health related and developmental concerns this encompasses a broad range of practices that help people to improve their well being, alleviate stress and maladjustment, reslove crisis and increases their ability to live more fully functioning lives. Counselling is unique in its attention to both normal developmental issues as well as the problems associated with physical, emotional and mental disorders. The BACP states that “counselling takes place when a counsellor see a client in a private and confidential setting to explore a difficulty the client is having, distress they may be experiencing or perhaps their dissatisfaction with life or loss of a sense of direction and purpose. It is always at the request of the client as no one can properly be ‘sent’ for counselling. In the sessions the client can explore variouse aspects of their life and feelings, talking about them freelyand openly in a way that is rarely possible with friends and family. Bottled up feelings such as anger, anxiety, greif and embarrasment can become very intense and counselling offers an oppertunity to explore them, with the possibility of making them easier to understand.”(BACP Guidelines 2010)
Counselling can be defined as a relativley short to mid term, interpersonal, theory based porcess for helping people who are fundamentally psychologically healthy resolve developmental and situational issues.
As I work with the Person-centred approach which was developed by Carl Rogers (1902-1987). Rogers believed that a lot of therapies being used at the time took away the opportunity for the client to help themselves. Rogers strongly believed that only the client knew what was best for them and so he developed Person Centred Therapy.
A definition of PCT taken from the
1.1
The term counselling facilitates personal and interpersonal functioning across the lifespan with the main focus on emotional, vocational, social, educational, health related and developmental concerns this encompasses a broad range of practices that help people to improve their well being, alleviate stress and maladjustment, reslove crisis and increases their ability to live more fully functioning lives. Counselling is unique in its attention to both normal developmental issues as well as the problems associated with physical, emotional and mental disorders. The BACP states that “counselling takes place when a counsellor see a client in a private and confidential setting to explore a difficulty the client is having, distress they may be experiencing or perhaps their dissatisfaction with life or loss of a sense of direction and purpose. It is always at the request of the client as no one can properly be ‘sent’ for counselling. In the sessions the client can explore variouse aspects of their life and feelings, talking about them freelyand openly in a way that is rarely possible with friends and family. Bottled up feelings such as anger, anxiety, greif and embarrasment can become very intense and counselling offers an oppertunity to explore them, with the possibility of making them easier to understand.”(BACP Guidelines 2010)
Counselling can be defined as a relativley short to mid term, interpersonal, theory based porcess for helping people who are fundamentally psychologically healthy resolve developmental and situational issues.
As I work with the Person-centred approach which was developed by Carl Rogers (1902-1987). Rogers believed that a lot of therapies being used at the time took away the opportunity for the client to help themselves. Rogers strongly believed that only the client knew what was best for them and so he developed Person Centred Therapy.
A definition of PCT taken from the
Bibliography: BACP Journal (1984) An Introduction to Counselling; John McLeod (1993) pg64 An A-Z of Counselling Theory and Practice; William Stewart (2001) Pg 86