Summary
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Within the contexts of contmeporary counseling training, this book revisits the importance of continuing personal and professional development for every successful counseling practitioner. From the trainee and their personal development to the trainer and their course, it provides the answers to that all important question: what is personal and professional development and why is it necessary for counselors?
This new edition explores:
the importance of personal development and the core concepts that underpin it; the aims, commonalities and differences of personal development in different settings; the key differences in theoretical approaches and their implications for personal development; the issue of communication and relationship between counselors and professional organizations, society, and the ‘virtual’ world; the trainee and trainer and the challenges of personal development.
Packed full of vivid accounts of personal experiences, questions and points for refection, this book will prove an essential companion for anyone wishing to grow personally and professionally as a therapist.
Why Personal Development?
Why Personal Development?
“What is personal development and why is it necessary for counsellors?”
This chapter will explore key concepts in understanding what personal development is and why it is accepted as central in counselling training. It will discuss the meanings of terms used, put work on self in context and consider the significance of the following:
- self and the meaning of life;
- self and self-awareness in related professional fields;
- significance of self and personal development in counselling;
- personal development in counselling training;
- core elements:
- the self;
- development and growth;
- personal and professional;
- awareness.
In sooth I know not why I am so sad,
It wearies me, you say it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff ‘tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn:
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