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Tag Archives: counselling ethics
Dave Mearns on the counsellor’s practice of self-care
Our view at this service is that by far the most important attribute of any therapist (and what we look for when therapists seek to volunteer here) is a strong, consistent commitment to their own self-care, awareness and personal growth. We take … Continue reading
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Person-centred basics: expertise of the person-centred counsellor – Dave Mearns & Brian Thorne
The fourth in our occasional series of person-centred fundamentals. ‘The person-centred counsellor must learn to wear her expertise as an invisible garment in order to be an effective counsellor. Experts are expected to dispense their expertise, to recommend what should … Continue reading
Posted in acceptance, actualizing tendency, Brian Thorne, client as 'expert', conditions of worth, core conditions, cultural questions, Dave Mearns, Disconnection, empowerment, encounter, equality, ethics, external locus, internal locus of evaluation, non-directive counselling, person centred, person centred theory, power and powerlessness, presence, sadness & pain, self concept, self esteem, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, trust, vulnerability, working with clients
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Palace Gate Counselling Service – Independent Listener
This post introduces a new role: our independent listener. This is a new external resource for our therapists. The Context We structure this service to provide plenty of support to our therapists, in what can be an isolating profession. At … Continue reading
Posted in communication, core conditions, cultural taboos, empowerment, equality, ethics, growth, internal locus of evaluation, non-directive counselling, Palace Gate Counselling Service, person centred, relationship
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Therapist feedback on working for Palace Gate Counselling Service
In June, we published a new page on this blog giving examples of client feedback we have received recently:- https://palacegatecounsellingservice.wordpress.com/client-feedback/ In the next couple of days, we will publish a companion page of feedback from our therapists, past and present, … Continue reading
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Ron Unger – Radical uncertainty: a healing stance for all
http://beyondmeds.com/2015/07/19/radical-uncertainty/ Gratitude to Ron and to http://www.beyondmeds.com for this interesting post. The psychiatric paradigm defines (and invites us to define) our distress or disturbance as ‘illness’ in need of ‘treatment’. Ron argues this thereby precludes the most effective healing agent … Continue reading
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Brian Thorne on the person-centered therapist’s ‘family within’
‘Compassion for the body will be a cornerstone of the person centred therapist’s spiritual discipline but so, too, will be an acceptant and empathic response to his or her inner world where conflicting voices and a confusing array of configurations … Continue reading
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Ethics versus Compliance. The Institution, Ethical Psychotherapy Practice, (And Me) – Farhad Dalal
This is the third of our series looking at some of the issues around BACP’s proposed changes to its Ethical Framework – and why we and other practitioners so strongly object to its movement from an ethics-based code to a … Continue reading
Posted in BACP, cultural questions, ethics, external locus, internal locus of evaluation, medical model, non-conforming, political, power and powerlessness, psychiatry, reality, regulation, risk, values & principles, working with clients
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Two letters to Tim Bond on BACP’s proposed changes to the ethical framework – Els van Ooijen
http://www.nepenthe.org.uk/ethics/ The second in our series of posts on BACP’s proposed changes to its Ethical Framework. We share the concern of many therapists about the nature and direction of these changes (and BACP’s political ambitions). We do not think this … Continue reading
Posted in BACP, cultural questions, ethics, external locus, healing, internal locus of evaluation, paradigm shift, person centred, political, power, regulation, research evidence, supervision, therapeutic relationship, values & principles, working with clients
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