L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 3rd April 2020

April 3, 2020Posted inQualifications courseworkNo Comments
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…

Self isolation, week one

March 25, 2020Posted inReflectionsNo Comments
You may have heard something about the coronavirus, I'm not sure if it's on the news yet... Oh, who am I kidding, it's everywhere. You can't have not heard about it by now, it's affecting absolutely everything. We're self isolating this week because Jake developed a cough the night before he was due to go back to school - we…
Balance

Balance

December 16, 2018Posted inFree-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…
Time

Time

October 14, 2018Posted inFree-writingNo Comments
This is entry five in my themed series of blog posts in which, as part of my ongoing quest for greater self awareness and my continued personal and professional development, I pick a key word and write about it for a set amount of time. I'd really like it if you left a comment on here with a new word…
L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 9th May 2018

L2CiCS: Reflective Diary – 9th May 2018

May 9, 2018Posted inQualifications courseworkNo Comments
This week we were looking at Ethics in counselling. Our tutor gave us some “Counsellor’s Ethical Dilemmas” to unpick and suggested we use the BACP’s Ethical framework to aid us. That is what it is there for, after all. The first ethical dilemma was that we had been working with a client for three sessions and we discover that our…
L2CiCS: Learning Log – 18th October 2017

L2CiCS: Learning Log – 18th October 2017

October 18, 2017Posted inQualifications courseworkNo Comments
This week we were learning about Stereotyping and Prejudice in relation to the wide range of potential differences between the client and counsellor. These include (but are not limited to) differences in gender, race, age, social habits, capability, sexual orientation and physical ability. Prejudice is having a pre-conceived (usually unfavourable) idea that is not based on anything rational or a…