Authentic Counselling Training
Diploma in Counselling
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Assignment H: Combining Counselling Approaches
Chronology
The text of this assignment is final only at the start of the term in which it is intended that the report be written. It is intended that this report be written during the fourth term of the course. The target submission date is the final teaching session of the fourth term of the course.
Purpose of the assignment
The purpose of this assignment is to consider in detail issues related to combining the person-centred counselling model with another counselling model.
Procedure for the assignment
Utilising the headings (and subheadings) pinpointed below, write a structured report, of at least 2,000 words and no more than 3,000 words, that addresses clearly and in detail issues concerning combining the person-centred approach with another counselling model. Read, draw on, and use quotations from material (including from the booklist given below) written by Carl Rogers and by other relevant person-centred authors such as Bozarth, Barrett-Lennard, Gaylin, Patterson, Tolan, Merry, Mearns and Thorne.
1. Introduction: brief outline of the scope of the report (what the report will consider)
2. Definitions: in the context of combining counselling models, and supporting what you write with material drawn from appropriate theoretical (not general dictionary) sources, consider what you understand by each of the terms:
o Random eclecticism (a term used by Gerard Egan)
o Eclectic counselling (a term used of themselves by many counsellors)
o Integrative counselling model (a term used of her own counselling approach by Sue Culley (Integrative Counselling Skills), and could also be applied to the counselling models of Gerard Egan (Problem Management Approach) and Arnold Lazarus (Multimodal Behavior Therapy))
o Integration (a term used of a particular way of combining two or more counselling approaches).
3. Combining counselling models: theory: supporting what you write with material drawn from appropriate theoretical sources, and from your learning record, detail the factors to be considered when attempting to combine (aspects of) two counselling approaches; suggest reasons for wishing to combine (aspects of) two counselling approaches; detail and explain the difficulties / shortcomings of combining (aspects of) two counselling approaches.
4. Combining counselling models: practice: supporting what you write with brief examples drawn from your experience in the counselling (training) room, and also making use of appropriate theoretical sources, detail several occasions when your counselling practice has departed from a purely person centred approach, explaining:
o what you did
o your rationale for doing what you did
o the extent to which what you did fits (or does not fit) more broadly into your counselling practice
o the model from which what you did was drawn (even if you were not thinking about the model at the time)
o the ways in which what you did conflicts with a purely person centred approach
5. Conclusion, including
o what insights about the issues of the processes of integration and eclecticism you have gained as a result of writing this report
o what insights about the nature of person-centred counselling you have gained as a result of writing this report
o what insights about yourself you have gained as a result of writing this report
o what you feel satisfied with about the report, and what you feel least satisfied with about the report.
6. List of reference sources: 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.
Suggestions for Reading
Lecture notes: Combining counselling approaches
Barrett-Lennard, G.T. (1998) Carl Rogers’ Helping System
Bozarth, J. (1998) Person-Centered Therapy: A Revolutionary Paradigm Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books
Culley, S. (1991) Integrative
Counselling in Action,
Egan, G. (1994) The Skilled Helper,5th edn., Belmont, Ca.: Brookes Cole.
Kirschenbaum, H. and Henderson, V.L. (eds.) (1997) The Carl Rogers Reader
Lazarus, A. (1976), Multimodal
Behavior Therapy,
Mearns, D. and Thorne, B. (1999) Person
Centred Counselling in Action 2nd edn.,
Merry, T. (1999) Learning and Being in Person-Centred Counselling Ross-on Wye: PCCS Books
Perls, F.S.
(1969) Gestalt Therapy Verbatim.
Rogers, C.R. (1993) Client Centred Therapy (1951-current edns.)
Rogers, C.R. (1989) On Becoming a Person: A therapist’s
view of psychotherapy (1961-current edns.)
Rogers, C.R.
Rowan, J. (1990) Subpersonalities: The People Inside Us
Tolan, J. (2003) Skills in
Person-Centred Counselling & Psychotherapy
Assignments for Diploma in Counselling: Essay preparation, Introduction, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L
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However, should you wish to use it for teaching, training, commercial or other
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