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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813119403321

Titolo

Balancing acts : studies in counselling training / / edited by Hazel Johns

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 1998

ISBN

1-56973-033-4

1-134-70864-5

1-134-70865-3

0-203-13102-9

1-280-32959-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JohnsHazel

Disciplina

361.06071

Soggetti

Counselors - Training of

Counseling - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; INTRODUCTION; On the tightrope; Being a counselling trainer: keeping the plates spinning?; The stresses of being a counselling trainer; Issues of power for women counselling trainers; The co-training relationship; Aspects of counselling training: juggling or fire-eating?; Reflective learning; Negotiated learning and assessment; Groups in counselling training; Volunteers, professionalisation and training; Training volunteers in a non-counselling setting; Training by telephone; Counselling trainees: holding the balancing-pole?

An academic invalid in a world of academic excellenceA trainee's experience of trauma; Healing the 'wounded healer'; Rainbows and shadows; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the theory and practice of counselling training. Experienced trainers share their experiences of the 'balancing acts' by which students and trainers manage the complex demands made of them during the training process.