Adverse Childhood Experiences are things that can happen in children’s lives that may impact upon their future experiences. Within this lecture, you will explore: Adverse Childhood Experiences and the life long consequences of trauma. Interventions that may be used to support those with ACEs. How Adverse Childhood Experiences and counselling fit together. ACE scoring. Underpinning

How to Engage Difficult Clients as a Counsellor Every counsellor is likely to find themselves counselling difficult clients at sometime or other. Engaging a resistant client means understanding what the barriers are for the client before looking for a solution. Counselling difficult clients effectively takes a carful balance of theory, self care and understanding the

Brain Plasticity and Trauma Fourth Force in Psychology The first force in psychology was psychoanalysis, brought to us by Sigmund Freud. Then, in the 1940s and 1950s, came the second force, behaviourism (courtesy of people like Skinner and Watson). Later, in the 1960s, Rogers and Maslow introduced humanism, the third force in psychology. The fourth

Child and Adolescent Counselling Training – CPD Importance of Personal Therapy Working with young people is very different from working with adults. While having your own therapy is important regardless of client group, it’s even more so if you’re thinking of working with children. Think about why you are drawn to work with children –

Transference, Countertransference and Projection Origin of the Concept of Transference Viennese psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud first identified the phenomenon of transference in 1901, when he worked with a client called Dora. In hindsight, he realised that the reason she had not completed treatment with him was that he had failed to recognise that she saw him