introduction to counselling for teachers

COUNSELLING AND ISSUES OF IMMORALITYChallenging your preconceived ideas on counselling.By Chris Booth 25th February 2017

CONTENTS OF PRESENTATION

Discovering Preconceived Ideas Of Counselling

What is Counselling?

Personal and Professional Ethics

What is Immorality Within Counselling?

The Influence of Society

The Dislocated Teenager

TRAINING COLLEGE SURVEYDo you know what counselling is? 85% YesWhat do you think the primary aim of counselling is? 45% ListeningWhen do you feel counselling may be needed? 68% AnytimeHave you had any formal education on the act of counselling? 95% NoHave you had any formal education in ethics or ethical policy? 76% NoHave you read your universities ethical policy? 76% NoWould you feel confident counselling a teenage pupil in crisis? 90% NoWhat would you do if you were approached by a teenage pupil in crisis? 45% Talk to pupil and liaise with supervisor about the situation

Counselling is not:

Advice Giving

Medical Diagnosing

Giving instructions

So What is Counselling?

Counselling occurs when a counsellor sees a client in a private and confidential

setting to explore a difficulty the client is having, the distress they may be

experiencing or perhaps their dissatisfaction with life or loss of a sense of

direction and purpose. It is always at the request of the client and no one can

properly be 'sent' for counselling. By listening attentively and patiently the

counsellor can begin to perceive the difficulties from the clients point of view and

can help them to see things more clearly, possibly from a slightly different angle.

SELF AND SELF

CONCEPT

Self = The Real self (so the kitten)

Self Concept = What they see themselves as (so the lion)

Self Actualisation = When the lion and the kitten become one.

If we can provide a certain type of relationship, the other will discover within themselves the capacity to use that relationship for growth and change. And as a result personal development will occur.

Counselling is:

Listening Empathetically

Exploring Issues congruently

Unconditional Positive Regards

COUNSELLING AND COUNSELLING SKILLSCOUNSELLING SKILLSNon-verbal communicationParaphrasingFocussingReflectingSummarisingOpen QuestionsSilence

COUNSELLINGProfessionally Trained IndividualBound by a code of ethics and practicesAble to use a different range of counselling approaches

PERSONAL IMMORALITY: ETHICAL PROBLEMS IN TEACHERS COUNSELLING OVER COUNSELLORS

DILEMMA

‘COUNSELLING’

MORAL CODE

REPORTS TO HEAD

EMPATHY

CONGRUENCE

U.P.R

CONFIDENTIALITY BREACH

DILEMMA

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

Group Work: What are your ethics?

Jack and the Beanstalk:

Work in groups to analyse the ethics in the given text and feedback to the group after 5 minutes.

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PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS: FEEDBACK

Feedback from different groups

You each had three different scenarios: normal story, one where a fairy tells Jack the giant stole the goods from his

father one from the giants point of view.

One Question; Many answersWas it okay for Jack to take the items from the Giant?

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

The word ‘ethics’ comes from the Greek word ‘ethos’ meaning character / or concerning right and wrong. Counselling ethics is fundamentally a social process that draws upon many different sources of ethical insight

Often these sources agree on what is the right or best way to act but this is not always the case. Slight influences can make a big difference (as found in the Jack and the Beanstalk exercise)

PERSONAL VS PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

Personal

• Self created values• Instilled by family

and friends• Revealed in

professional situation through behaviour

Professional

• Values introduced to you in a professional

organisation.• Maintains a sense of discipline and decorum• Make the employee

responsible.

abortionPregnancyAlcohol

DrugsPressuregood and right

Just and fairValue of Life

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS: GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Counselling is also:

Learning

Preparing

Being aware of the relationship between society, the client and

the counsellor.

KEEPING ETHICS MUSCLES IN SHAPEThe following are 3 ideas to stay in good ethical shape:

• Professional ethical accountability – do you have a network or group of professionals that you meet with to process ethical concerns as well as be accountable to / challenged by?

• Professional Ethics Code – When was the last time you had a read of the professional ethics code of you Professional Association?

• Professional literature – what was the last piece of professional literature you read that challenged your current thinking on an ethical issue?

PERSONAL IMMORALITY: THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIETY

PERSONAL IMMORALITY: THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIETY

Multi-racial / ethic familiesGay / Lesbian parents or family members

Students living in foster homes

Non-English speaking parents

Military families

Families living with other family members e.g. grandparents

Families with non-traditional or very strong religious practices (e.g. Jehovah Witnesses who don’t celebrate Christmases or Birthdays)

THE NUCLEAR STUDENT

HISTORICALDISLOCATION

FRAGMENTEDIDEOLOGY

SEARCHFORIMMORTALITY

Lacks sense of community

Lacks sense of identification with the past and future

Can cause apathy, boredom and a sense of emptiness

Believes nothing is set in stone, values, opinion, fact fiction are all fluidic.

This lead on to being open to try anything that will ‘broaden’ experience.

They are always searching for something else – historic dislocation and fragmented ideology – means no hope.

They are looking for something to believe in.

A CRISIS OF IDENTIFY

SOCIAL DISLOCATION:

A sense that they have no roots in the place they are at: socially, financially, educationally etc)

SELF-DOUBT

LONELINESS

ALIENATED

PLURALISM:

Coping with ‘the melting pot ’ of cultures, value systems, religions – and a sense that the world is no longer big, as we are living in a global village.

ANXIETY FROMCONFLICTING AND CONTRADICTING VALUE SYSTEMS

o Students go through a lot of stressful and challenging times

whilst in education – and a lot of them don’t get any support.

o But by learning and recognising all these Counselling Skills –

you can be that one teacher they remember, who was able to

offer them support when they really needed it.

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