Clinical Counselling and Group Work

Description

These are my personal notes covering all of the content from this unit. Topics include: Counselling (definitions and key concepts) Groups (ethics, planning, ending) Individual Counselling Counselling Skills (empathy, probing, summarising, challenging, advanced empathy, immediacy) Facilitating Change Reluctance and resistance Transference and Counter transference Therapeutic use of self Cognitive Behavioural therapy (framework, cognitive distortions, core beliefs) Major Theoretical Perspectives (including person centred, existential, behavioural, psycho-dynamic, solution focused, systems approach, narrative therapy) Grief and Loss (including assessment and intervention) Children and Adolescents Couples Counselling Family Therapy Crisis Counselling (including the double ABC-X model, and the seven stages of crisis counselling) Managing Risk (including suicide risk assessment)