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A Step by Step Guide to Problem Solving
This article was published on Monday, July 26th, 2010...
Rabu, 18 Julai 2012
Six Options for Building Healthy Self Esteem
Six Options for Building Healthy Self EsteemThis article was published on Wednesday, July 28th, 2010...
How to Communicate Assertively in Your Relationship
How to Communicate Assertively in Your RelationshipThis article was published on Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Couples when they get married usually believe that they are on an equal footing and that marriage or their decision to live together gives them the permission to express their feelings and wants with an expectation that they will be respected, to state their views and opinions with an understanding that they will be listened to, and to say “no” openly without feeling guilty.
This does happen in many partnerships but there is no guarantee that it will in all, for sooner or later many couples will feel the discomfort of an imbalance in their relationship. This disparity will become noticeable when for instance one partner...
Solution-Focused Communication Skills Training
Solution-Focused Communication Skills Training
This article was published on Thursday, August 12th, 2010
Communication is the primary activity from which to build a healthy, enjoyable, and fulfilling intimate relationship. Most problems in relationships either develop from or are maintained through either a lack of communication or poor communication.
Because of this, relational issues can really only be resolved effectively through the use of appropriate communication skills. Interestingly, while couples who have open lines of communication usually find support in each other during the more challenging times of their relationship, most couples tend to communicate less when they are having problems in their relationship (Long & Young, 2007).
It is therefore important...
Isnin, 9 Julai 2012
Happiness and Positive Psychology
Happiness and Positive PsychologyThis article was published on Thursday, September 8th, 2011
Positive Psychology’s primary focus is on what people do right to obtain and maintain optimum happiness (Compton, 2005), by striving to understand and help people develop qualities that lead to greater personal fulfilment. The premise of positive psychology is to promote factors that allow individuals to thrive and flourish by encouraging a change of focus in psychology from a preoccupation with repairing the worst things to a greater emphasis on discovering and building upon positive qualitie...
Counsellors vs Workplace Harassment
Counsellors vs Workplace Harassment
This article was published on Thursday, July 28th, 2011
To effectively counsel a client who has been the target of workplace harassment it is helpful to have an understanding of relevant legislation. The following is an extract from the Queensland Government Department of Employment and Industrial Relations (it is recommended that counsellors from other states and territories check their relevant legislation).
The QLD Dept of Employment and Industrial Relations, defines workplace harassment as follows:
“Where a person is subjected to behaviour, other than sexual harassment that:
is repeated, unwelcome and unsolicited
the person considers the behaviour to be offensive, intimidating, humiliating or threatening
a...
Responding to Suicide Risk
Responding to Suicide Risk
This article was published on Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
Suicide is a serious health problem. The World Health Organisation estimates that one suicide attempt occurs every three seconds and one completed suicide occurs approximately every 40 seconds resulting in almost one million people dying from suicide each year; a “global” mortality rate of 16 per 100,000 (WHO, 2000, 2010).
In the last 45 years suicide rates have increased by 60% worldwide. Each day, approximately 210 Australians attempt to end their life and each year over 2500 will commit suicide. Suicide in Australia kills 8.5 times more people than homicides and 1.5 times more than motor vehicle accidents. Consequently, reducing suicide...
Behaviour and Solution Focused Couple Therapy
Behaviour and Solution Focused Couple Therapy
This article was published on Friday, July 15th, 2011
The practice of couple therapy has been encouraged to incorporate a more scientific model of practice and the use of research to inform the style of therapy most appropriate to use (Whiting & Crane, 2003). As a result, the discipline of couple and family counselling is moving to an evidence based focus. A number of theoretical frameworks have attempted to conceptualise dyadic relationships. Some of these theories have become foundations for the interventions that have become common in couple’s therapy today. Some of the models and theories include the strategic model, emotion focused therapy, solution focused therapy, behaviour theory and attachment theory.
In this...
Sudden Unemployment – Reactions and Emotions
Sudden Unemployment – Reactions and Emotions This article was published on Thursday, October 15th, 2009Unfortunately ‘organisational restructuring’ and ‘downsizing’ are common events in today’s workplace. For those individuals who suddenly lose their job, financial pressures can be overwhelming. Most support individuals receive focus on supporting the individual financially. However even under the best conditions where someone has ample savings and decent job prospects, suddenly losing a job is an emotional ride.
The emotional stress which individuals and their families experience is the least thought about effect of unemployment. For many people work is a central component to their identity. When their employment status changes, so too can their self identity. This together...
Career Counselling – A Field of Counselling Specialisation
Career Counselling – A Field of Counselling Specialisation
This article was published on Thursday, October 15th, 2009
If you are travelling the counsellor training road somewhere between Units 1 and 22, your primary goal right now is probably just to see those C’s filling up your assessment sheet. But what might you be doing once you have your Diploma? You may want to do further study – perhaps take on an advanced study major or even go on to university. Or maybe specialising hasn’t even crossed your mind but it is certainly something worth considering.
Specialisation comes in many forms, such as developing expertise in a favourite technique, working with a particular client group, or helping people with particular issues...
Domestic Violence – Understanding the Situation
Domestic Violence – Understanding the Situation
This article was published on Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Around the world at least one woman in every three has been beaten, abused or coerced into sex during her lifetime. Most often the abuser is a member of her own family. The prevalence of domestic violence is difficult to determine for several reasons: it often goes unreported, and there is some ambiguity about what should be included in the definition of domestic violence.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimates that only 31% of victims of domestic violence and 20% of female victims of sexual assault report the incidence to the police. Living in a domestically violent household is not easy. Some believe that leaving a domestically violent household is even more...
Symptoms, Causes and Effects of Loneliness
Symptoms, Causes and Effects of Lonelines
This article was published on Monday, July 9th, 2012
According to Murphy and Kupschik (1992), loneliness is defined as a state in which a person describes experiencing an overwhelming sense of inner emptiness and social isolation. It is, therefore, an emotional state. Loneliness is more than a person feeling that they want to be able to connect on a social level with others – but rather it is a perceived sense of disconnection, rejection and alienation.
The lonely client may find it difficult or even impossible to have any form of meaningful human contact. Lonely clients often experience a subjective sense of inner emptiness combined with feelings of separation and/ or isolation from the world.
Sometimes people feel lonely...
Suicide: Statistics, Characteristics and Myths
Suicide: Statistics, Characteristics and Myths
This article was published on Thursday, June 14th, 2012
Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud called suicide “murder turned around 180 degrees”, or more wryly, “a very poor response to a very bad day”. Also called “self-murder” or “self-killing”, suicide is the act of deliberately or intentionally taking one’s own life. It is an attempt to solve a problem of intense emotional pain with impaired problem-solving skills (Kalafat, J. & Underwood, M., n.d.).
Suicidal behaviour is any deliberate action that has potentially life-threatening consequences, such as taking a drug overdose or deliberately crashing a car (Dyer, 2006). Attempted suicide is a potentially self-injurious act committed...
Khamis, 5 Julai 2012
Building Effective Client Responses
Building Effective Client Responses
June 19th, 2012 by Keith Abrahams Dip.HG.P
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As the therapy progress and trust (often called rapport)
builds, the client should be helped to move into positive ways of
responding; either to depression, anxiety, fear, anger, phobias or the
full gamut of emotional distress which is so often part of the human
condition.
In this way the therapist should seek to work in therapeutic alliance
with the client to help them achieve a number of key things:
Re-enforcement - helping the client to focus on their gifts
strengthens and talents. This is akin to the positive psychology
(focused on building on the best in people). It s from this place that
clients can stand to see and value their capacity for positive...
