This is a two day workshop which introduces to the basics of counselling and the counselling process. Professor Windy Dryden has written widely on the subject of counselling through his titles "Counselling in Action" series and this is an opportunity to hear the author speak about the concepts, core issues and process that support effective change. This workshop is useful for students of counselling and psychotherapy and healthcare professionals who use counselling skills in their workplace. This seminar is also great for the working therapist to refresh and inject new energy into their practice.

Syllabus

• Components of counselling
• What counselling is and is not
• Unhelpful therapeutic bonds
• Therapeutic styles - become an authentic chameleon
• Transference and counter-transference
• Informed consent
• How explicit can you be about your views to clients?
• Goals - Cognitive and Behavioural
• Goals -Psychodynamic
• Goals - Person-Centred
• Dryden's stage based model - cognitive and experiential understanding

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