What are the tenets of an existential-humanistic approach to counselling and how relevant is this counselling approach in the African cultural setting? Existential-Humanistic psychology looks at individuals as a whole person and living in a socially interconnected and holistic world. It focuses on helping the individual self-discover the healing process‚ leading eventually to improved self-esteem. High self-esteem has many positive social benefits: individual happiness (Shackelford‚ 2001)‚ academic
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STUDENT DETAILS ACAP Student ID: 199735 Name: Karla Balino Course: Diploma of Counselling (CHC51708) ASSESSMENT DETAILS Unit/Module: CHC8D34V Support Clients Educator: Bernadette Brown Assessment Name: 2 (Apply counselling therapies to address a range of client issues) Assessment Number: 2 Term & Year: Term 3 / 2012 Word Count: Part 1200 words. DECLARATION I declare that this assessment is my own work‚ based on my own personal research/study . I also declare
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Ethical guidelines for researching counseling 1. Trustworthiness The distinctive ethical dimension of the counseling practice is the trust placed by clients in practitioners. This trust is not only essential to achieving the client’s aspirations but also for the practitioner to establish the quality of relationship and interaction that makes the work possible. Counseling and psychotherapy require a high level of frankness on the part the client. The client needs to feel able to tell the truth
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Ethics are an essential part of the administration of psychological tests and it is necessary that all test users follow the ethical guidelines when using any type of psychological test. Psychological tests are an important tool in terms of many professions in an array of settings such as in clinical psychology‚ education‚ and even business. However‚ misuse of psychological test by the administrators is a constant and troubling issue that has the potential to harm the individuals involved and even
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Critically discuss the case for counselling to be evaluated through randomised controlled trials. In the following essay a critical discussion for the case for counselling to be evaluated through randomised controlled trails will be discussed. A randomised control trial requires firstly finding a collection of individuals who are all in search of help and who have a comparable problem. These can be identified through the use of a questionnaire for example‚ by comparing outcome scores. These
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How do research findings support counselling work? Research. 1.a. the systematic investigation into and study of materials‚ sources‚ etc‚ in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions. b. an endeavour to discover new or collate old facts etc by the scientific study of a subject or by a course of critical investigation. [Oxford Concise Dictionary] When entering the field of counselling the first thing that becomes evident is how much there is written and theorised upon. A great deal of research
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Comprehensive Guidance Programs That Work II Norman Gysbers and Patricia Henderson A Model Comprehensive Guidance Program Chapter 1 Norman C. Gysbers The Comprehensive Guidance Program Model described in this chapter had its genesis in the early 1970s. In 1972‚ the staff of a federally funded project at the University of Missouri-Columbia conducted a national conference on guidance and developed a manual to be used by state guidance leaders as a guide to developing their own manuals for state and
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1.1 Identify your own values and beliefs By being able to identify my own values and beliefs is an important aspect of my continual personal growth. I use them to guide my actions and behaviours throughout my life as well as helping form attitudes towards different things. Some are rally core to me and they define who I am‚ whilst others change in importance dependant on my needs at any given time. My values and beliefs have changed over the years and will continue to as I grow and
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Book Report Assignment Title: Counselling for Toads Author : Robert de Board – A graduate from Cambridge University‚ Robert is an acknowledged expert in the field of group facilitation for senior executives. In addition to his on-going work helping senior executives develop their interpersonal and leadership skills‚ and to understand better and use their emotional intelligence (EQ). This book is an insight into the methods of Transactional Analysis as a form of Therapy for a depressed Toad from
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recal past experiences. In the first half of this essay I will describe and compare both Psychodynamic and Cognitive- behavioural approaches‚ before contrasting the differences between both psychological practices. Psychodynamic counselling is defined as a "Psychological approach that emphasizes unconscious dynamics within the individual‚ instinctual Psychodynamic perspective is mostly centered on inner conflicts and how such conflicts affect development through out life. Sigmund
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