Summary
Contents
Subject index
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.
Theoretical Differences and Personal Development
Theoretical Differences and Personal Development
“How do the theories, philosophy and values underpinning courses affect the personal development work of trainees?”
This chapter will briefly suggest some of the key differences, and their implications for personal development, in the three major orientations, which themselves underpin many other models:
- psychodynamic approaches;
- person-centred and humanistic approaches;
- cognitive-behavioural approaches;
- other approaches;
- the course as an entity.
Theories of Counselling
There are many approaches to and schools of therapeutic counselling, including major moves in the last thirty years towards eclectic and especially integrative models, as well as now well-established traditions of, for example, narrative therapy. New approaches are also constantly evolving, with many and varied labels. For all the perceived differences, as John McLeod stresses:
There is some evidence that practitioners who claim ...
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