This session introduces our students to Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT). This approach is a short-term goal-focused therapy, that is its aim is to construct solutions and less so understanding the origins of the client's problems. SFBT concentrates on the process of change and facilitation of the change. In practice SFBT's main concern is the creation of goals and directing the client's capabilities to achieve the goal. One of the unique aspects of SFBT is that it is also used for working with involuntary clients.
This session provides an overview of domestic violence, discusses the implications of domestic violence to counselling and enables students to decide whether a placement in a domestic violence oriented organisation is appropriate for them.
This session gives an overview about the characteristics and most commonly used terms for different types of drugs, the causes of drug abuse, the consequences of drug and substance abuse and the various treatments available.
This session introduces intermediate counselling skills course students to the history of and public opinion about mental health. The one-day workshop for diploma in counselling course students builds on this and discusses the implications of mental health to counselling in an organisational setting.
This session introduces intermediate counselling skills course students to the process and stages of bereavement. It is followed up in the diploma in counselling course by exercises through which students get a greater understanding of bereavement in the counselling process.
This session discusses the forms of eating disorders (especially anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa), the symptoms, the potential sources of eating disorders, the effects on the person, the family and the wider environment. The session also deals with the treatments available for these disorders.
This experiential workshop introduces students working with children who are bereft not only because of death, but also other issues of loss.
This experiential session explores the ways of communication with children who have behaviour problems and do not normally react to verbal communication.
This session gives the basic facts about HIV/Aids, the symptoms and factors that help the spread of the epidemic. It discusses the public perceptions about HIV/Aids, the responsibilities of the infected person and the psychological effects on both the patient and his or her environment.
This session explores the public perceptions about racial diversity, the perceptions of minorities of their position in society and the psychological consequences.
This session introduces our students to the historic development of religions from the taboos through the classic Greek mythology to the current main religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Buddhism). By describing the key characteristics of these four religions the lecture persuades students to broaden their understandings of the uniqueness and common characteristics of various religions.
This session assists our second year diploma in counselling students in their research project. It introduces the key research methods in counselling (interviewing, survey, case study) and the ways in which these could be effectively deployed. The session also gives an introduction to the analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data.
This session assists our second year diploma in counselling students in their research project. The focus of this session is the way in which researchers can deal with inevitably emerging ethical issues in counselling research. It also deals with ethical issues that derive from the intricate links among the preconceptions of the researchers, theoretical frameworks and research methodology.
This session introduces our students to Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), or rather to the mainstream NLP approach as different practitioners interpret NLP differently. In effect, NLP attempts to provide the client with a manual to using their brain, hence the emphasis on communication and persuasion skills, and the use of self-hypnosis for motivation and change. NLP, however, has its roots not in neurology, but in transformational psychology, which partly explains its fairly extensive use in the business world.
Adlerian Psychotherapy emphasises the individual's strivings for success, inter-personal relationships and contribution to the community as key aspects of the healthy person. In this therapy the therapist-client relationship is collaborative, the process is focused on beliefs, values and choices. Consequently, this approach is goal-oriented, though it also deals with the past of the client. The aim of the therapy is to provide the client with awareness and encouragement required to achieve the state that the Adlerian approach perceives as key factors of mental health.
This full-day workshop provides our diploma students with the principles of doing a literature survey, constructing a theoretical argument and deducting hypotheses from the literature for empirical research projects.