Psychology counselling Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

This assignment covers the assessment process for competency in an administrative career. It includes the context of testing, the person-environment fit approach to career counselling, compiling an appropriate test battery, as well as an interpretation of results and feedback. I received a mark of 89% with this assignment.

Don’t judge a book by its cover, or should we? When we look at people from a distance and observe certain behaviours, we can spot characteristics and mechanics on the inner workings of said person. Is that person conveying a message of anxiety, sadness or pain, perhaps this person seems enthusiastic, overjoyed or happy. The famous detective from the novel Sherlock Holmes can be seen oversimplifying this power of observation, the act of reading another person’s body language.

Complete summary for 2019 exam for PYC4805 Adult. Used several resources and indicated where you must use own examples.

This summary is based on Theme 2: Types of Psychological Assessment Measures. It includes Chapter 10 (Assessment of Cognitive Functioning); 12 (Personality Assessment); 13 (Career-Counselling Assessment - only Section 13.2) and 15 (The Use of Assessment Measures in Various Applied Contexts - only Section 15.2 and 15.3)

Summary notes of behaviour therapy include: Introduction - Historical Background, 4 Areas of Development; Key Concepts - Current Trends in Behaviour Therapy, Basic Characteristics & Assumptions; The Therapeutic Process -Therapeutic Goals, Therapist's Function & Role, Client's Experience in Therapy, Relationship between Therapist & Client; Therapeutic Techniques & Procedures - Applied Behavioural Analysis: Operant Conditioning Techniques, Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Systematic Desensitizatio...

Summary notes on Postmodern Approaches includes: 4 Basic Assumptions; Social Constructionism; Therapeutic Goals; Key Concepts; Solution-Focuses Brief Therapy (SFBT); Basic Assumptions; Questions Used; Therapeutic Process; Types of Relationships; Techniques Used; Narrative Therapy - therapeutic process, role of the therapist, questions used, externalization, deconstruction and creating alternative stories, Strengths of Post-modernism; Limitations of Post-modernisation

This summary of cognitive behaviour therapy includes: an introduction; Albert Ellis's Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy; Key Concepts - View of Emotional Disturbance, A-B-C Framework; The Therapeutic Process - Therapeutic Goals, Therapist's Function & Role, Client's Experience in Therapy, Relationship Between Therapist and Client; Therapeutic Techniques and Procedures - The Practice of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Methods, Emotive Techniques, Behavioural Techniques, Applicat...

This summary of The Counsellor: Person and Professional includes: the counsellor as a therapeutic person; personal characteristics of effective counsellors; personal therapy for the counsellor; the counsellor's values and the therapeutic process; the role of values in counselling; the role of values in developing therapeutic goals; becoming an effective multicultural counsellor; acquiring competencies in multicultural counselling; incorporating culture in counselling practice; Issues faced by b...

Study notes on ethical issues in counselling practice includes: an introduction; putting client's needs before your own; ethical decision making; the role of ethics codes; steps in making ethical decisions; the right of informed consent; dimensions of confidentiality; technology and ethics; the major exceptions to confidentiality; ethical issues from a multicultural perspective; are current theories adequate in working with culturally diverse populations; is counselling culture-bound; focusing ...

This summary of Existential Therapy includes: important figures within Existential Therapy; Some Existential Philosophical Beliefs; View of Human Nature; The different positions (Capacity of self-awareness, freedom & responsibility, identity & establishing meaningful relationships, the search for meaning/purpose & values in life, anxiety as a condition of living and awareness of death & non-being); The therapeutic goals; therapist's function and role; client's experience in therapy; relations...