New Zealand Journal of Counselling
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Revealing counselling.
Get PDFAn updated evaluation of the counselling provided by a Christchurch counselling agency was carried out during the years 2010-2014. The information gained was then combined with two other sources of similar data, one from an earlier review of the same agency and the second from an additional agency. Data from the three sources provided a sample of over 5,500 clients who had completed their counselling. The counselling spanned nine years and involved some 65 counsellors. Results showed that counselling was overwhelmingly brief (90% of clients had fewer than 10 sessions) and pointed to ways in which the agencies could cut their costs and improve their services by looking further into the reasons for cancellations and possible ways of reducing them, planning for and implementing brief counselling, and instituting clinical reviews for lengthy counselling. The need for further research of this sort was emphasised. [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.
Experimenting with videoing in counselling and supervision.
Get PDFThis article describes the development and testing, in a counselling relationship, of video recording as a tool that was originally used by a counsellor in a supervision relationship. The aim of this practice-based research was to improve the quality of the client's experience of counselling through developing greater transparency by using the video recording as a tool in the supervisor-- counsellor--client relationship. The research process, including analysis of the data, employed a structured method known as a "one pager." Risks and benefits of using video recording as a tool in counselling and supervisory relationships are identified. The implications of undertaking research in a private practice setting are also considered. The article concludes that video recording can be an effective tool for improving the quality of the counselling experience for all parties. [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.
Young people's perspectives on school counselling.
Get PDFWhile school counselling is well established in secondary schools in Aotearoa New Zealand, there have been few resources available to establish a complementary research base. This article reports on a small survey study that investigated the perspectives of young people who had used school counselling services during the two weeks of the online survey. The survey replicated one strategy employed within a much larger evaluation study of the counselling services in three schools in Glasgow, Scotland. In focusing on only one research strategy--student self-report via survey--the study makes a small contribution to discussion of evaluation practices for school guidance counselling in New Zealand. As in the larger Glasgow study, young people in the small sample in this study evaluated school counselling as helpful across a number of dimensions of their 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.
Let's not mention the "R" word.
Get PDFThis qualitative study explored the experiences of professional women in transition to retirement in New Zealand. Six women aged between 58 and 68 years took part in two one-hour, one-on-one interviews during which they described a succession of transitions they had undertaken, where they success - fully integrated professional, personal, and domestic domains, and carried skills and experience over into new stages of their lives. This experience of successfully managing significant transitions gave the women confidence that they might anticipate periods of exploration in retirement, where resumption of a career might be contemplated, where greater family engagement might prove reward - ing, where further academic and creative endeavours might be possible, and where community and networks might present opportunities for new directions. As they looked ahead, they were anticipating continuity and change: continuity in the way they would exercise control and have choices, and change in the ways in which they would meet new challenges. [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.
Evaluating Counselling Outcome.
Get PDFIn the current competitive funding climate, there is a pressing need for counselling outcome research that demonstrates the effectiveness of current practices. However, a dearth of such research in New Zealand remains in spite of this need. Several reasons are offered for counsellors' and agencies' resistance to conducting outcome research. Various ways of gathering such data are discussed in terms of their simplicity of use, effectiveness, and manageability. Two scales in particular are recommended for use: PCOMS and PSYCHLOPS. [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.
Uncovering precariosity using a circle conversation with counselling practitioners.
Get PDFEthics approval was obtained to audio-record an adapted form of circle conversation involving a group of counselling practitioners who attended a professional development workshop in 2015. The goal of the study was to examine what emerges when participants open themselves, through structured conversations, to affecting and being affected by others. The participants chose to focus on their working conditions, and what emerged in these discussions became the focus of this paper. The participants' stories provide rich insight into how a group of practitioners have become caught up in precarious circumstances in their professional lives. This article includes four narrative accounts that derive from this guided conversation. Through the process, new lines of thought for consideration and new ways of analysing what action might make a difference to their current situations emerged. These are briefly summarised in two further narratives. The article ends with a call to all professionals to provide a critique of the implications of precariosity in their own work, and to begin to explore possibilities for developing new ways of being and doing within the constraints of an uncertain labour market. [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.
Surviving shame.
Get PDFAdolescents involved with sex work are largely hidden from formal systems, and typically view counselling, social work, and health services with distrust. This article reports the findings of a study involving semi-structured interviews with a sample of eight young people who started sex work between the ages of 12 and 16. The study found that participants' experiences with formal services were overwhelmingly negative and emotionally harmful. The combination of the participants' outcome expectations, interactions with individual practitioners, and feelings of shame was found to preclude sustained engagement, irrespective of the participants' level of need. Helpful elements of the client-practitioner alliance are identified, and components of service design that promote emotional safety and the positive development of self are discussed. [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.
Secondary traumatic stress, burnout and the role of resilience in New Zealand counsellors.
Get PDFOne hundred and twenty-nine New Zealand counsellors were surveyed in relation to secondary traumatic stress, burnout, compassion satisfaction, resilience, social support, degree of exposure to trauma, and personal history of trauma. Statistical analyses established the prevalence of secondary traumatic stress, burnout, and compassion satisfaction. The relationships between risk of secondary traumatic stress and exposure to others' trauma, personal trauma history, burnout, compassion satisfaction, resilience, and social support levels were explored. Results established a prevalence of 21.7% for high risk of secondary traumatic stress, 24.8% for high risk of burnout, and 21.7% for high potential for compassion satisfaction in this sample. Statistically significant relationships were found between exposure and secondary traumatic stress, between burnout and secondary traumatic stress, and between resilience and secondary traumatic stress. These results are discussed in relation to counsellors' secondary exposure to trauma when working with clients who have been traumatised. [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 is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including secondary traumatic stress, burnout, and compassion
Genograms or "housework".
Get PDFHousework is a narrative and visual strategy that is similar to genograms in the co-construction of meaning and understanding between counsellor and client. This article seeks to describe what housework is and to compare it with genograms. It outlines the advantages and potential value of housework as a tool for engaging and supporting secondary students in counselling. It also illustrates how housework can be used by guidance counsellors and as well as within the wider counselling field. [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.