1st Edition

Balancing Acts Studies in Counselling Training

Edited By Hazel Johns Copyright 1998
240 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the philosophy and constructs of counselling training and the means by which students and trainers manage the complex demands placed upon them during the training process. The three main sections of the book explore key aspects of * being trainers : the pressures and stresses involved, issues of gender and power; the complexities of co-training * elements of training : academic... Read more
List of contributors, INTRODUCTION, 1 On the tightrope, 2 The stresses of being a counselling trainer, 3 Issues of power for women counselling trainers, 4 The co-training relationship, 5 Reflective learning, 6 Negotiated learning and assessment, 7 Groups in counselling training, 8 Volunteers, professionalisation and training, 9 Training volunteers in a non-counselling setting, 10 Training by telephone, 11 An academic invalid in a world of academic excellence, 12 A trainee’s experience of trauma, 13 Healing the ‘wounded healer’, 14 Rainbows and shadows, Index

Biography

Hazel Johns