Psychology Tutor: Mentor (PSI) Psycho-Social Incarnation

Everything is Going to be OK! is my free pdf download~ a study support handbook for undergraduates of the psycho-social student tribe (PSST!). Get your free copy by signing up to the enewsletter on the homepage www.psitutor.org (scroll up ~:-) Feedback on this valuable resource is appreciated~

Blogger friend of mine who resides in the UK, Martin Hughes of The University Blog, has had the fantastic opportunity to contribute a Chapter to a book on higher education. And you can access that book, Blue Skies , right here! What a wonderful opportunity to read about the global paradigm shift to an emphasis [...]

Dr Wendy Carter of Ta-Da! Thesis and Dissertation Accomplished has just posted a gem of an article, How to Write a Master’s Thesis or Dissertation? Set a Deadline! Capture Thesis/Dissertation Ideas with a Journal Keep Keywords or Phrases Handy Organise Your Thoughts – Organize Your Thesis/Dissertation Edit Your Thesis or Dissertation Find an Thesis/Dissertation Editor [...]

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Looking for a way to give-back…? A 3-Day Resilience Leadership Workshop to be held in Cairns, 2011. Relevant and critical skills to aid community resilience prior to, during and post natural disaster. Hosted by Volunteer Queensland~ Contact Tal Fitzpatrick Leadership Program Coordinator Natural Disasters Resilience Project Volunteering Queensland Inc. Tel: 07 3002 7600 Mob: 0410 [...]

Seether’s latest trax and some goldies from the past hosted on Rockline Radio.

Syllogisms

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: [...]

Frequency Distributions & Histograms We use frequency distributions (distances between scores) to count the number of people/etc that fall within intervals across a range of values. Frequent = often; more than once or twice; influenced by sample number~ distance of range. The mode is a central tendency statistic that we can use to identify where [...]