L3CiCS Learning Log – 10th April 2020

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The purpose of this piece of work is to examine what is meant by research and how it informs and supports counselling work. What is research? Research is a lot of different things depending on the context. Pure research is more like exploring and finding out more information about something. Applied research is directed by a hypothesis or the desire…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 3rd April 2020

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This week we looked at common mental health problems and possible reasons for their incidence in society. Mental health problems could be seen as skewed rules that people are trying to live their lives by. These abstract rules are mostly developed alongside the organism as it grows and learns to navigate this world we live in. These self-created rules form…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 11th October 2019

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This week we looked at what we feel and think are necessary to developing an effective working relationship with clients. I think the most important one, one that Carl Rogers outlined many years ago, is a core condition of the therapeutic counselling relationship – Unconditional Positive Regard. UPR is a non-judgemental point of view and an accepting attitude toward the…
L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 17th January 2018

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 17th January 2018

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This week was a bit more abstract and self-exploratory than usual, in that we carried on exploring our understanding of the relationship between our personalities and our helping work by asking ourselves various introspective questions (Unit 5.1), and we also considered the ways in which our life history has impacted on our behaviour and life choices (Unit 5.2). Because of…