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Working with Students Who Have Asperger's Syndrome.
Get PDFMisunderstandings on the part of teachers about the reasons for socially inappropriate behaviour have the potential to cause major problems for some young men with Asperger's Syndrome. This was evident in the cases of two students with whom I have worked as a guidance counsellor in a New Zealand high school. Narrative Therapy concepts of "thin" and "thick" descriptions are used to provide more sympathetic and supportive understandings of their behaviour. Those more helpful "thick" descriptions make use of current diagnostic criteria and research about Asperger's Syndrome. Methods of working therapeutically with adolescents and their families are presented from Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, and contemporary, evidence-based perspectives. School guidance counsellors can have an influential role in challenging unhelpful "thin descriptions" about the problematic behaviours, in developing those more supportive "thick descriptions," and in promoting more socially appropriate behaviour in these young people through therapeutic interventions. Potential challenges in this work are also addressed. [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.
Possibilities and Limits of Cross-disciplinary Supervision.
Get PDFThis small, qualitative New Zealand study explored some of the limitations and possibilities of cross-disciplinary supervision. It was based on semi-structured interviews with six supervisors from the fields of counselling, social work, and psychology, who supervised a wide range of other professionals in private practice and in health settings. Identified benefits of cross-disciplinary supervision include the sharing of knowledge between disciplines, and the potential decentring of supervisor knowledge. Cross-disciplinary supervision was represented as a diverse range of practices, depending upon the careful and skilled negotiation of agreements, including the acknowledgement of professional and organisational mandates and accountabilities. Two areas of potential further study are identified: the extent to which counsellors and counselling supervisors participate in cross-disciplinary supervision, and the effects that counsellor registration may entail for cross-disciplinary supervision. [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.
The Therapeutic Process of Interactive Drawing Therapy.
Get PDFAs clients move step-by-step through their psychological processes of addressing and adapting to significant conflicts or opportunities, their words, the images they use, and their behaviours can be seen to change in quite distinct and characteristic ways. These processes have a predictability that forms the basis for the Interactive Drawing Therapy (IDT) therapeutic schema. On the basis of therapist observations of client processes, seven primary stages of change have been mapped, each reflecting a shift in a client's condition and capabilities, each bringing a different set of therapeutic tasks for client and counsellor to attend to, and each requiring a different type of therapeutic alliance and way of working. This schema provides a new framework for recognising clients' conditions and for shaping stage-appropriate interventions. In addition, because it identifies stage-specific client attributes, it also has value as a research framework for investigating clients' experiences, processes, and mechanisms of therapeutic change. [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.
Childhood Exposure to Domestic Violence.
Get PDFIn this qualitative investigation, four young adults of Indian ethnicity reflected on their childhood experiences of exposure to domestic violence within their immigrant families, including the nature of their exposure, the effects it had on them, and their responses to their situations. Among the themes that emerged were their powerlessness as children, their lack of mothering, and the loneliness of their role as "the responsible one" in the family. An unexpected finding was the significant part played by school counsellors in enabling these resilient young people to develop their strengths and move forward in their lives with hope. [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.
Counselling Adolescents when "Spiritual Emergence" Becomes "Spiritual Emergency.".
Get PDFThis article provides a rationale for a closer examination and recognition of unusual consciousness events in adolescence that have a specifically spiritual content of the kind described by Stan and Christina Grof as "spiritual emergency". A case vignette is discussed in the light of new understandings about how non-ordinary spiritual experiences in adolescence, triggered by loss and grief, can lead to self-actualising outcomes. This article will broadly discuss these experiences and suggest attitudes and strategic positions that counsellors can adopt to help them recognise spiritual emergence and spiritual emergency in their adolescent clients, and to encourage their disclosure and support [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.
White Privilege and Cultural Racism.
Get PDFWhite privilege is an insidious and elusive concept that, when discussed, often generates strong reactions of denial, guilt, shame, discomfort, and defensiveness (Arminio, 2001). This article attempts to provide a précis of what is meant by white privilege and how it manifests in New Zealand society. White privilege and cultural racism are then examined in relation to the counselling process. The necessity is discussed for white counsellors to develop an awareness of their own racial identity in order to better understand and address the impact of race issues on both their sense of self and their work. [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.
A Response to Philip Culbertson's Presentation.
Get PDFThe author responds to the paper written by Philip Culbertson which focuses on the topics of sex, gender and sexuality presented at a seminar held in the University of Auckland in New Zealand on July 18, 2008. She agrees with Culbertson about the lack of a dialogue between psychoanalysts and narrative therapists in the nation. She notes that narratives are one way that counselors can engage in play and meaning-making with their clients
Editorial.
Get PDFThe article discusses various reports published within the issue including one about a concept of spiritual emergence and spiritual emergency and another on the experiences of people coming in for counselling following the trauma of major physical injuries
Counsellors and Research.
Get PDFResearch findings have suggested that practising counsellors do not take an active part in conducting research for a variety of practical, economic, and personal reasons, nor do they regularly use research done by others to enhance their practice. In 2004, Robert Manthei discussed these shortcomings in an article in the New Zealand Journal of Counselling and called for change. In response, this paper outlines the benefits to one practitioner of using and conducting research, and to others of involvement as participants. [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.
Eros and Liberation.
Get PDFThe article presents the text of a keynote address by counselor Philip Culberston, delivered at a seminar held in the University of Auckland in New Zealand on July 18, 2008, in which he discussed new ways of thinking about sex, gender and sexuality