Introduction to Counselling

[blank_start]New Zealand Association of Counsellors[blank_end] or NZAC is the professional body for counsellors in New Zealand.

NZAC provides a code of ethics that registered counsellors must follow

In New Zealand, anyone can call themselves a counsellor

The counselling process can be described as (select all that apply)

Conceptual frameworks (or paradigms) of counselling include the following

The Romanticist paradigm of counselling can be described as the reality of the deep interior

The modernist approach to counselling can be described as the reality of the scientific self.

The metaphor of the machine is a romanticist view of counselling

The romanticist view of counselling includes the following

A modernist view of counselling includes

Romantic counselling approaches include

Modernist counselling approaches include

Romanticist is an object-oriented approach to counselling

Modernist is a subjective approach to counselling

A good definition of counselling is "a collaborative process of sharing your thoughts and feelings and experiences with someone who is trained to be understanding, insightful, analytic, reflective and skilled at ‘drawing you out’"

Counselling outcomes may include the following