August 2006 - Posts
The BACP is counselling's professional body and, amongst many other things, it produces an excellent magazine called "Therapy Today."
I have spare copies of the May, June and July issues which are available to the first three people to ask for them. If you're a student on one of our counselling courses, or if you're just about to become one, then you qualify to get a copy. Simply tell me that you'd like one, and which course you're on, by clicking on "comment" beneath this posting and then filling in the "What do you think?" boxes. I'll make sure that your tutor lets you have the magazine at the start of term. I've only got three copies, though, so you'll have to hurry!
Well, possibly. As you may know, the School is actively engaged in developing a range of training videos and DVDs. What you may not know is that we're always very glad to hear from students who are interested in helping us in this process. That might mean being in front of the camera, playing the role of "client" or "helper", giving a demonstration of some kind of interaction or other, or it might mean being behind the camera - or microphone, the choice is yours....
We could even do with someone to keep an eye on continuity - a fairly vital role that we've largely managed to ignore so far - with some pretty apalling consequences. If you're at all interested in any of this just send us an email
We've just finished our latest video called "Talking about Counselling". It's out in the market place (most of our sales are either from our web site or through Concord Media) but, as with all our other videos and DVDs, there's also a copy in the library.
The blurb on the back cover is pretty self explanatory -
"What's it like to be a counsellor? How do you get your first clients? What are the differences between private work and agency work? How do you decide how much to charge? How do you find a good supervisor? How do you know that you've found one? What happens if you have difficulties with one? What do you do if your client is to distressed to engage in an assessment procedure? What about burn-out and self care? Contracts and boundaries? Seeing clients in their own homes? Meeting clients in social settings? Endings?
Three counsellors with many thousands of counselling hours behind them - and one student at the start of her career - talk about their work, their dilemmas and their experiences"
Running time approximately 82 minutes"