Petruska Clarkson – The Five-Relationship Model Background Petruska Clarkson was a psychologist and psychotherapist who made significant contributions to the field of psychotherapy. She was born in South Africa in 1947, and in 1976 moved to the United Kingdom, where she trained and worked as a psychotherapist. Clarkson died by suicide in Amsterdam in 2006. […]
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Third Person in the Counselling Room Recording Therapy Sessions with Clients Effective client contact is a sacred bond where client and practitioner grow and learn but does a recording device in the room change the dynamics? Part of studying counselling is examining our practice in professional discussion and having a recording of part of a
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Carl Rogers and Gloria Carl Rogers and Gloria, there cannot be many counsellors or students of counselling that have not watched the film ‘Three approaches to Psychotherapy’ and wondered who Gloria was and what was the story behind the film? ‘Three approaches to psychotherapy’., filmed in 1964 was Everett Shostrom’s second attempt at filming the
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The 4 Tasks of grieving is based on research undertaken by J. William Worden, Ph.D, currently a professor of Psychology at the Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University California. Worden, a prolific author on the subject of how grief is experienced by adults and children, publishised 6 books on the subject, co-authoring many more. His grief model moved away
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How to Survive Counselling Training (a students guide) is my first attempt at ‘writing’ . I offer you this ‘guide’ with the same mixture of trepidation and heady excitement I experienced on my very first day as a Diploma student at Tameside College in 2002. The guide was ‘born’ from a number of conversations through
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Shame in psychotherapy is one of the most powerful emotions clients can experience, and perhaps the most contradictory and difficult to work with as a therapist. One of the most powerful reflections on shame was quoted by AdamAppleton a writer of personal development books who had suffered an abusive childhood; “Share whatever it is you’re ashamed
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