L2CiCS: Homework – Counselling in the Media – 10th February 2018

L2CiCS: Homework – Counselling in the Media – 10th February 2018

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This week we were given a series of questions about how counselling is portrayed in the media, in particular magazine and newspaper problem pages and TV shows such as Oprah and Jeremy Kyle. Here are the two problems from “Agony Aunts” I have chosen to look at; One from a “lowbrow” newspaper and one from a “highbrow” newspaper. The first…
L2CiCS: Learning Log – 7th February 2018

L2CiCS: Learning Log – 7th February 2018

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This week we looked at some aspects of Transactional Analysis, in particular Stephen Karpman’s Drama Triangle, as well as Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. The Drama Triangle was conceived as a social model of human interaction by Stephen Karpman in 1968. In life, people play games. In difficult or tumultuous relationships, the Drama Triangle can be used to map the…
L2CiCS: Learning Log – 31st January 2018

L2CiCS: Learning Log – 31st January 2018

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This week, Sue did a presentation on Transactional Analysis; in particular Sue talked about the ego-states, what they are and how they represent us. Transactional Analysis was founded in the late 1950’s by Eric Berne, and is a therapy based on the theory that each person has three ego-states: Parent, Adult and Child. These are different from real parents, children…
L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 31st January 2018

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 31st January 2018

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This week’s Reflective Diary includes my thoughts on Sue’s presentation, as well as my reflections on our roleplays. To monitor our personal development, we were tasked with identifying responses in ourselves that occur during a helping interaction. We did this with several rounds of roleplay. The first roleplay of the evening was Emily as the counsellor, and I played the…
L2CiCS: Learning Log – 24th January 2018

L2CiCS: Learning Log – 24th January 2018

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This week we reflected on our own patterns of relating, and how that increases our self-awareness. In particular, we looked at Relationships and what they are. Taking into consideration the connotation which is relevant to our studies, relationships are, essentially, descriptors of the connection between two or more people. There are numerous types of relationship, and they can be roughly…
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…
L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 10th January 2018

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 10th January 2018

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Today we explored personal blocks to listening, which are external or internal factors that interfere with a counsellor’s ability to be present in the room and utilise active listening. One internal block to listening that I feel could be pertinent to me, especially at this early stage of my counselling journey, is me wanting to give advice. So often in…
L2CiCS: Learning Log – 10th January 2018

L2CiCS: Learning Log – 10th January 2018

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Today we explored personal blocks to listening, which are external or internal factors that interfere with a counsellor’s ability to be present in the room and utilise active listening. Pat introduced us to six broad categories. The first is Mind Reading. Psychic abilities are not real, and a counsellor supposing they know what a client’s problem is before it has…