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L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 17th January 2020

By Iain 17 January 2020Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

To solidify our learning and get an idea of how it is practically applied, it would be useful to take our knowledge of the three theories we have studied so far and apply it to a range of presenting problems. As I mentioned the last time we used these case studies (22nd November, when we were applying SMART goals to…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 10th January 2020

By Iain 10 January 2020Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

Over the past few weeks we’ve been learning about three very different counselling theories – Person-centred counselling, Psychodynamic counselling and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) – with very different methods, glossaries and philosophies that ultimately all work towards the same goal, which is helping people. They each offer a different language, and a different way of understanding our personality or self,…

L3CiCS Learning Log – 29th November 2019

By Iain 29 November 2019Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

Person Centred Counselling was developed by Carl Rogers in the 1950’s around the philosophy that people can change, and that they are not bound by personal events in their past, or their circumstances in the present. This change is achieved by the counsellor making use of the core conditions of the Person Centred approach, and these are: 1. Empathy –…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 15th November 2019

By Iain 15 November 2019Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we went straight into roleplays with relation to discrimination – as a client we had to play someone that had experienced some kind of discrimination or was somehow different to the counsellor. First off, I was counsellor to Leonardo’s client. His difference was that he felt he was being mistreated by his employer because of his Attention Deficit…

L3CiCS Learning Log – 18th October 2019

By Iain 18 October 2019Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we looked at the three stages of the counselling relationship. There are three stages in the therapeutic relationship between counsellor and client, and they apply to individual sessions as well as the counselling process as a whole. The start of a session is known as The Beginning and is about the counsellor exploring the client’s world and developing…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 11th October 2019

By Iain 11 October 2019Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

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…

Balance

By Iain 16 December 2018Free-writingNo Comments

This week I'm writing about balance - specifically as a way to connect the previous two Free-writings: Masculinity and Femininity. In this modern world, where our survival is not necessarily dependent on traditional gender roles, we are witnessing those roles change. Some slowly, others incredibly fast. I've mentioned this before in another free-writing exercise. Could this imbalance between masculine and…

Masculinity

By Iain 2 December 2018Free-writingNo Comments

I'll be honest. I've been wrestling with this one in my head for a while, so this writing is only semi-free. That's one of the problems with having the titles of the exercises written down - I take a look to add to the list every now and again, and when I do, I cant help but form initial ideas.…

L2CiCS: Learning Log – 2nd May 2018

By Iain 2 May 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we were exploring the features of safe practise, using the BACP’s Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions. The BACP’s Ethical framework is necessary to maintain the integrity of the counselling and psychotherapy professions. Everything in the framework protects the entirety of both the client and practitioner, and allows the provision of a safe working environment in which the…

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 17th January 2018

By Iain 17 January 2018Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

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…