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A Practitioner Survey of Interactive Drawing Therapy as Used in New Zealand.
Get PDFThis study comprises an anonymous survey of 235 practitioners of Interactive Drawing Therapy (IDT) in New Zealand. Most respondents had only completed the Foundation Course, and reported practising IDT with reasonable confidence and success in a limited proportion of their work. IDT was considered useful across a range of clients (especially children and adolescents) and presenting problems, in getting to core issues and empowering clients to establish goals for change -- particularly when used by practitioners skilled in its use and able to manage client resistance. IDT was seen as compatible with a wide range of other modalities. [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.
What Can Clients Tell Us about Seeking Counselling and Their Experience of It?
Get PDFResearch on counselling is often unknown to or ignored by counsellors. Research that explores counselling from the client's perspective is even less familiar to most counsellors, perhaps because there is far less of it compared to the quantity of research investigating the process from the counsellor's point of view. Nevertheless, research presenting the client's perspective can be a useful guide to both counsellors and their clients. With this aim in mind, this article summarises some of the research that has been conducted from the client's point of view and suggests implications for counselling practice. [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.
Interactive Drawing Therapy: Working with Therapeutic Imagery.
Get PDFThis paper introduces the nature and practice of Interactive Drawing Therapy (IDT), and describes key psychological elements that are encountered when clients use pages as a therapeutic device. IDT has consonance with aspects of psychodynamic (especially Jungian) personality theory, with certain aspects of art therapy, and with psychological research on brain functioning. While strongly developed in Australasia over the last 15 years, with over 4000 enrolments in training courses, IDT's status as a formal professional modality requires further attention to the articulation of its theoretical structure, and research into the effectiveness of its practices. This article, together with its two companions, represents a modest but important step in this process. [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 Use of Metaphor in Interactive Drawing Therapy.
Get PDFThis article is based on a dissertation carried out by Christine as part of her MEd in Counselling at the University of Auckland in 2004. It comprises the results of an investigation into the therapeutic use of client-generated metaphor in Interactive Drawing Therapy (IDT), where it is expressed in visual form and claims to make a contribution to the change-making process. The use of metaphor in IDT is discussed in relation to findings in the literature. A small field study presents the results of a qualitative inquiry into how five trained and experienced IDT therapists used metaphor with selected clients to facilitate therapeutic change. The results suggest that metaphor expressed in visual form and used in the IDT process is a powerful means of accessing aspects of the psyche and facilitating 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.
Life Coaching and Counselling Making Connections.
Get PDFOur aim was to ascertain whether there were any unique aspects of life coaching which could inform counselling and how our counselling skills might inform any extension of our practice into coaching. We interviewed eight Christchurch life coach practitioners and researched available literature and material on the Internet. We discovered life coaching has close affinities with the forward-looking, goal-centred emphases of brief solution-focused counselling, with added emphasis on explicit psychoeducation and the client's motivation and practice of skills to bring about change. We note these emphases are already a strong aspect of many counsellors taking clients through specialist programmes. We highlight coaching's emphasis on giving advice and challenges, and how coaching practitioners counteract risks for highly distressed clients by emphasising negotiated boundaries of responsibility, transparency of process and ascertaining limits and appropriateness of approaches. We conclude that counselling and life coaching have much in common. [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 Comments.
Get PDFThe article introduces a series of articles published in the 2006 issue of the "New Zealand Journal of Counselling.
A Discursive Approach to the Registration Debate Working with Texts; Thinking Ethics.
Get PDFCounsellors are currently considering impending registration. This important decision is being made in the context of wider changes that also affect the profession: poststructural versions of subjectivity; potential environmental collapse and increasing regimes of accountability. This article takes a closer look at the registration debate with these concerns in mind. It applies a critical, Foucauldian, discursive approach to two relevant documents: the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (HPCAA) and the New Zealand Association of Counsellors (NZAC) Code of Ethics 2002 (the Code). Although these documents have different functions, both impinge upon counselling practice. A comparison foregrounds some ethical discrepancies and raises the question of whether registration under the Act is even possible without a significant rewrite of the NZAC Code. The article lays out some areas of divergence in the hope that they may be useful points of reference in future negotiations. [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 and Deafness.
Get PDFDeaf people who identify with the Deaf community perceive the world differently to hearing people. This article is about the complex developmental, communication and cultural differences that are part of the Deaf world. Reference is made to the role of school counsellor at Kelston Deaf Education Centre (KDEC) and one counsellor's work with Deaf students and their families and caregivers. It outlines the many Deaf cultural, identity and community issues encountered and the skills and strategies found to be effective when working with Deaf people. [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.
Deaf Counsellors and Counselling: A Personal View.
Get PDFPresents insights on deaf counselors and counseling service, based on personal experience. Work experience as a deaf counselor in New Zealand; Challenges as a counselor; Limitations on counseling service for the deaf in provincial cities
The Dunedin Safer Schools Safer Communities Initiative: A Narrative Approach to Community Collaboration.
Get PDFBased In 1997, a number of community agencies in Dunedin came together to express their concern at the disproportionate number of young people coming to their attention suffering from the profound effects of bullying and harassment on their lives. These concerns developed further, and as a result the Dunedin Safer Schools Safer Communities (SSSC) initiative was born. Central to the working of the initiative were the ideas and practices of narrative therapy. Some interesting issues arose as we tried to maintain those ideas and practices in a collaborative context in the area of bullying/harassment in schools. The negotiation of the power relation proved to be the most difficult aspect of the work of the initiative. [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.