Counselling Academy

Ethics and Disclosure
Disclosure is a controversial issue when examining therapeutic boundaries. There are two issues to consider regarding disclosure. The first is counsellor disclosure and confidentiality. The second is counsellor disclosure (ie. how much does a client ...

Teaching Clients to Become Assertive
Assertiveness is the ability to express one’s feelings, opinions, beliefs and needs directly, openly and honestly, assert one’s rights whilst respecting the feelings and rights of another (Lloyd, 1998). Non-assertive individuals may be passive, a...

A Case of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Marna attended counselling to try to do �something� with her memories of child abuse that currently seem to be affecting her life. She attended twelve appointments over a six-month period...

Domestic Violence: Understanding the Situation
Around the world at least one woman in every three has been beaten, abused or coerced into sex during her lifetime. Most often the abuser is a member of her own family. The prevalence of domestic violence is difficult to determine for several reasons...

Ego States: Concepts
Eric Berne, the pioneer of transactional analysis, made complex interpersonal transactions understandable when he recognised that the human personality is made up of three "ego states". Each ego state is an entire system of thoughts, feelin...

Narrative Therapy: Principles and Objectives
Your life is a narrative, counted and recounted from many different perspectives, and by diverse people. There are settings, themes, characters and plots � just like in any movie, book, historical account or legendary fable. In this article we review...