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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johns, Hazel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Counselors--Training of.

Counselors.

Counseling--Study and teaching.

Counseling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-56973-033-4

1-134-70864-5

1-134-70865-3

0-203-13102-9

1-280-32959-9

9780203131022

OCLC:

60495148