New Zealand Journal of Counselling
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Fruits of the Fig Tree.
Get PDFMultipotentiality in gifted and talented adolescents refers to the fact that these individuals have numerous and diverse abilities and interests that can affect their career choices and decisionmaking. To help these younf people achieve their potential, a broad understanding of the nature and effects of multipotentiality is crucial, as is emotional support and advocacy from counsellors--with school guidance counsellors and careers counsellors ideally placed to assist. This article provides information and ideas from relevant academic literature and research to facilitate understanding of the associated concepts, and to introduce suggested interventions for use with multipotentialed gifted and talented young people. The principal findings from the review of literature suggest the usefulness of specifically targeted counselling that is underpinned by an understanding of the implications of multipotentiality; an holistic, values-based and lifespan approach to career planning; mentoring; experiential learning; and early intervention, coupled with long-term planning and broad academic study. It has also become clear that much more research is required, particularly from New Zealand viewpoints. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of New Zealand Journal of Counselling is the property of New Zealand Association of Counsellors and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.
Recognition, Regulation, Registration.
Get PDFMore than a decade after the passage of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 it is undecided whether counselling will become a stateregulated profession. This article focuses on three directions potentially available to NZAC and its members: state regulation; the current status quo as a selfmanaging organisation; or self-regulation with a measure of state approval. It argues that counsellors need to be pragmatic in deciding which to support, since government policy considerations will influence the success of any direction we choose to take. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of New Zealand Journal of Counselling is the property of New Zealand Association of Counsellors and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.
"I cannot see my way clear. I cannot see the blackboard".
Get PDFIn this article, a failure identity story of a student counsellor is deconstructed. Self-data on the experiences of her six-year-old self in a school were generated through an outsider witness ceremony, as suggested by White (2007) in Maps of Narrative Practice. The data take the form of a rescued speech poem, as proposed by Speedy (2005). The article reflects on the process of data generation and of using a failure conversation map, as discussed by White (2002) in his paper "Addressing personal failure," to analyse and deconstruct the failure identity/ies available to the student counsellor. The process of the research, the writing, and the analyses of the failure story contributed to the development of an ethical counselling practice by the student counsellor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of New Zealand Journal of Counselling is the property of New Zealand Association of Counsellors and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.
Strengthening student counsellors' resolve.
Get PDFThe purpose of this article is to provide some background, history, and rationale for a process framework that provides robust, effective, and integrated scaffolding in which to situate counselling practice for student counsellors. Reflecting on experience as a counsellor, supervisor, and counsellor educator in two tertiary institutions in Aotearoa New Zealand, and on feedback from student counsellors and supervisees, the author reviews examples of process frameworks for counselling that have their origins in Aotearoa. Two possibilities are identified, and it is suggested that the structure of the hui is mirrored in these two frameworks. One example is highlighted as a way of synthesising the benefits of all three approaches for both counselling practice and counsellor education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of New Zealand Journal of Counselling is the property of New Zealand Association of Counsellors and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.
Saying hello to Mum.
Get PDFWriting was used as a method of inquiry in an autoethnographic study of the way Alzheimer's shapes my relationship with my mother. Poems and day-book reflective writing document aspects of the effects of the condition and of my response to it. In particular, I was interested in evoking an experience of ways in which the dynamics of the relationship are changed and renegotiated. A common view of Alzheimer's focuses on what has been lost. Following practices of Narrative Therapy for maintaining relationship with those who are no longer here, my intention has been to keep saying hello to Mum, as what is possible for our relationship is changed by her condition. In this article, poems are presented, accompanied by commentary, to speak into public conversations about Alzheimer's, standing alongside and disturbing the notion that Alzheimer's is a long goodbye. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of New Zealand Journal of Counselling is the property of New Zealand Association of Counsellors and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.
Key competencies or key incompetencies?
Get PDFHughes, Burke, Graham, Crocket, and Kotzé (2013) have claimed that school guidance counsellors' work "relates directly to the core mission of schools as expressed in the key competencies and values" (p. 14), namely for young people to experience psychological wellbeing as implied by the descriptors "confident and connected" envisioned for them by The New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007, p. 8). However, youth mental health research statistics reflect a psychopathological vocabulary that is used both by young people themselves to describe their own subjective/embodied experience and by others to describe young people. This disparity is explored in this article via a more problematised and politicised view of the key competencies as a conduit between our neoliberal sociopolitical context and that of compulsory education. While this view rethinks one of Hughes et al.'s claims, it augments another: the importance of school guidance counsellors' contribution lies not in how it complements the key competencies but in counselling work that makes visible, and thus revisable, the effects of key competencies' transfusion of neoliberalism's humanist ontology into young people's lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of New Zealand Journal of Counselling is the property of New Zealand Association of Counsellors and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.
Acceptance with Joy.
Get PDFThis article reports on research using writing workshops conducted with three women who distanced themselves from problematic relationships with their bodies that were induced by eating disorders. The article focuses on the use of writing tasks based on appreciative inquiry and outsider witnessing processes, practised with a group of women in a manner that provided space for the participants to story compassion for their bodies. The article explores the writing tasks that the participants were invited to undertake, and discusses the subsequent interviewing and outsider witnessing process as forms of narrative therapy practice. The article also documents the process of capturing a participant's voice in a rescued speech poem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of New Zealand Journal of Counselling is the property of New Zealand Association of Counsellors and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.
Textual activity at Youthline (NZ).
Get PDFAt Youthline (NZ), the phones hardly ring anymore. Young people still have problems and are still helped, but the help mostly happens silently. This article addresses what happens when interactions with a crisis helpline service shift into the medium of text messaging. In asking what happens following the move to such spaces, it is hoped that a more fundamental question might then be addressed: Is this change for the good? In undertaking a qualitative study involving data analysis of some 6000 texted interactions received and sent by Youthline, and augmenting this data with interviews of those who had engaged with Youthline through text, this article argues that emotional support provided by text is neither good nor bad, but simply different. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of New Zealand Journal of Counselling is the property of New Zealand Association of Counsellors and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.
Evocative Engagement with Research.
Get PDFTeaching research methods to counselling students is an important aspect of developing competent, reflective practitioners who can demonstrate professionalism as well as contribute to the strengthening of the counselling profession. However, counselling practitioners still seem to be reluctant to engage in research. Low motivation, lack of confidence, and high anxiety, as well as confusion about the relevance of research skills when trying to learn counselling skills, have been identified as reasons for this reluctance. It is proposed that these impediments need to be addressed within counsellor education programmes in order to develop a long-term solution to this problem. This article discusses how a course in research methods is intentionally taught in a meaningful and evocative way in order to captivate the imaginations and motivations of counselling students in a Christian college. The results of a survey exploring the questions that counselling students bring to their engagement in research are presented, and recommendations are offered for how research methods can be taught more effectively to counsellors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of New Zealand Journal of Counselling is the property of New Zealand Association of Counsellors and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.
Editorial.
Get PDFAn introduction to the journal is presented wherein the editors discuss various articles published within the issue on topics including counselling process frameworks that have originated in Aotearoa, New Zealand, the use of texting and its potential as a tool in counselling practice, and counsellors' work with young people