Psychology Tutor: Mentor (PSI) Psycho-Social Incarnation

A Therapeutic Community is a facility where a group-therapy model is used to treat personality disorder, drug addiction, compulsive self-harm, anxiety, eating disorders and various other disordered behaviours. The difference between normal group therapy and a therapeutic community is the residential with fairly intense interaction potentially at any time of the day or night. Therapists, [...]

I love Listserves~ they are an abundance of like-minded sharing and debates. A beautiful set of self-development and counselling resources that came my this week were focused on Forgiveness of the self. Ways for revealing a more authentic Self through authenticity included: Volunteering, as a medium for moving beyond focus on what one has or [...]

This notice was in my email this morning for Counselling grads and professionals~ a great opportunity to share your experiences and insights and enable others to learn from you~ I am looking for new professionals who have just completed their first year as a paid counselor after completing their masters or doctorate degree.  I would [...]

Here is an email recently received~ I highly recommend undergrads and postgrads in counselling to submit brief articles~ Student Perspectives is a new column for the AACE Newsletter (Association for Assessment in Counseling and Education) developed in response to a recommendation from the AACE executive council to increase participation by student members. In the age [...]

Session Summary On Thursday the 5th of March, 2011 I went to a counsellor who works at [Anonymous] in Far North Queensland. The [Anonymous] clinic has a team of social workers and therapists are available to children, teens and adults in the Cairns region. Professional development and best practices principles are training workshops also offered [...]

The Teddy Talk Tour is a unique and wonderful initiative supported by Innate Personal Development and Counselling. Teddy Talk Tour – Working towards breaking the silence of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse and raising community awareness. Statistics show one in three girls and one in seven boys have been sexually abused by the age [...]

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I am putting my learning into practice~ listening listening ~:-) Yesterday I saw that a student was wanting to share some very personal anxieties about her course and how she felt~ anyways, i tried to reflect in action to go through the 3 stages and let her become the empty teacup before summarising or suggesting [...]

Here is a copy of the newsletter I received recently from Mental Health Academy: It was stated perfectly by Anthony Robbins: “We live in an age where we’re drowning in information and starving for wisdom.” Well, we’ve done something about it. We have just launched an exciting new section to our website, the MHA Journal [...]

Today we have a guest post from Sterling Josey, Psych graduate. Counselling uses multiple skills that are useful for the Tutor:Mentor. Common counselling skills include the ability to organise a stable pattern of client sessions; active listening; body language; asking probing, challenging or tentative questions; and paraphrasing/summarising (Steven, 2010). Tutor:Mentors that are competent with basic [...]

  My second assignment for first semester in Counselling is due in the next week. Below is an outline of my prac and reflective plans. Demonstrate basic counselling skills (15 mins) Informed consent Download form and have signed ================================================================ Practical Session Introduction Name, the unit, the term, year, and the name of educator Stage 1: [...]