Authentic Counselling Training
Certificate in Counselling: Assignments
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Assignment 5
Personal Growth – Self Understanding
Purpose of the assignment
The purpose of this assignment is for you to assess:
1 your counselling competence and conceptual development over the period of the course; and
2 your self-knowledge / self-understanding in a wider social context.
Procedure for the assignment
Read some of the books listed in the Certificate course book list, in particular Person-Centred Counselling in Action, to help you to understand the process of person-centred counselling; and also texts (possibly including material drawn from the world wide web) that help you to understand the processes both of personal development and of journaling.
Utilising the headings (and subheadings) enumerated below, write a structured report of 3,000 (± 300) words that addresses clearly and in detail your development throughout the period of the course. Try to draw widely from your learning record, and from your personal journal, giving specific examples wherever possible. In each section of the report, try to illustrate, explain, or challenge personal experience with explicit use of theoretical material (ideas) drawn from books (and other texts) that you have read in preparation for the assignment.
1. Introduction: brief outline of the scope of the report (what the report will consider).
2. Details and assessment of the development of your counselling competence over the period of the course.
3. Details and assessment of your conceptual development (regarding counselling) over the period of the course.
4. Details and assessment of your self-understanding and personal development as an individual over the period of the course.
5. An exploration of your identification with, and differences from
· other people in your domestic environment
· other people in your work environment
· other people in society in general.
6. Conclusions, including
· insights about your counselling competence (strengths and shortcomings) you have gained as a result of writing this report
· insights about the nature of person-centred counselling you have gained as a result of writing this report
· insights about yourself you have gained as a result of writing this report
· with what about the report you have written you feel satisfied, and with what about the report you have written you feel less satisfied.
7. List of references, giving full bibliographical details, including author, year of publication, (title of article if in a journal), title of publication, name of publisher, place of publication.
Assignments for Certificate in Counselling: Essay preparation, Introduction, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
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