L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 8th November 2019

Posted inQualifications courseworkNo Comments
We were still working on diversity, discrimination and prejudice this week. Our tutor asked us to discover all the ways (both positive and negative) in which diversity can impact on the counselling relationship, which allowed us to consider how to take diversity issues into account when developing a counselling relationship. The most obvious negative one is a counsellor being unable…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 25th October 2019

Posted inQualifications courseworkNo Comments
This week we learned about diversity through exploring the membership of the course group: the different beliefs and behaviours. This enabled us all to become aware of the demographics of our group, for example our culture, family, nationality, race, age, gender, disability or sexuality. We went round the group and everyone said a few words about some of their diverse…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 11th October 2019

Posted inQualifications 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…
L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 18th April 2018

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 18th April 2018

Posted inQualifications courseworkNo Comments
This week we looked at more aspects of personal development, such as personal growth and how we feel about our developing counselling skills, as well as how we feel about giving feedback. Personal Growth Looking back on at my own journey on the course since September I have definitely learned a great deal about counselling and the various skills used…
L2CiCS: Learning Log – 7th February 2018

L2CiCS: Learning Log – 7th February 2018

Posted inQualifications courseworkNo Comments
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: Reflective Diary – 17th January 2018

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 17th January 2018

Posted inQualifications 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…
L2CiCS: Learning Log – 10th January 2018

L2CiCS: Learning Log – 10th January 2018

Posted inQualifications courseworkNo Comments
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…
L2CiCS: Learning Log – 6th December 2017

L2CiCS: Learning Log – 6th December 2017

Posted inQualifications courseworkNo Comments
This week we were learning about the structure of counselling, in particular the Beginning, the Middle and the End, in relation to both single sessions and full courses of therapy. The first session in a therapeutic relationship is usually an initial assessment. If the counsellor works for an agency then this could be carried out by a trainee or someone…