role-play – Iain Douglas Stewart

L3CiCS You as a Counsellor Assignment

By Iain 28 June 2020Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

I am training to become a counsellor because I want to help people. Throughout my life I have struggled with a lot of various types of mental health problems, such as depression, addiction and severe anxiety. I was borderline narcissistic and I suffered from delusions of grandeur, as well as Golden-Child syndrome. I thought I deserved more, but I expected…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 25th June 2020

By Iain 25 June 2020Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

So that’s that then. Last night I got an email from the college saying that our internal and external assessments have been submitted to the CPCAB for a calculated grade. Our tutor had already told us that we would all pass. Now that our final grade is being calculated, between a pass and a fail, there is no need to…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 29th May 2020

By Iain 29 May 2020Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we are looking at limits of proficiency, and my reflections on them. There are many ethical considerations to take into account when considering your own limits of proficiency. The type of client is one, for example, as a child would require a different approach to an adult seeking therapy. Personally, I would like to gain experience with as…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 15th May 2020

By Iain 15 May 2020Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we are looking at ethics in counselling, in particular, how to apply an understanding of an ethical framework to counselling practise sessions. This combines the two aspects of counselling that I feel are my weak areas: ethics and skills practises. Seeing as we are still in lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, we cannot actually do skills practise,…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 27th March 2020

By Iain 27 March 2020Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

Due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, there was no college last week, or this week. Last week I caught up on my work, wrote up my thoughts on the case studies, but it did feel a little odd. It was hard to concentrate. It is still hard to concentrate to be honest. It’s taken me until now to properly formulate…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 19th January 2020

By Iain 19 January 2020Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

The second day of our weekend workshop focused on Addiction; what it is, how it affects a person, and how it can be overcome. It was very interesting to see how attitudes have changed towards drug use over the years; in particular a handout about opium usage over the years surprised me a lot. I would not have guessed that…

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 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 Reflective Diary – 8th November 2019

By Iain 8 November 2019Qualifications 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 – 18th October 2019

By Iain 18 October 2019Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

This week we did roleplays to model the three stages of the counselling relationship. I was counsellor with Angela as my client. Firstly, I established that while this was our first proper session, it was the second time I had seen Angela – the first time was a week beforehand in our initial meeting, in which we went over the…