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Double bind: An essay on counselling training
Author(s) -
Fetherston Betts
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
counselling and psychotherapy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1746-1405
pISSN - 1473-3145
DOI - 10.1080/14733140212331384887
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , power (physics) , training (meteorology) , accreditation , social constructionism , process (computing) , work (physics) , social work , psychology , sociology , engineering ethics , medical education , pedagogy , epistemology , medicine , computer science , political science , social science , engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , meteorology , law , operating system , philosophy
Gerard Egan's problem management and opportunity development model is currently in use training prospective counsellors, social workers, nurses, managers, etc. the skills of helping. This essay attempts, experimentally, to depict in three different ways Egan's work and its relationship to operations of power: (1) from a relatively uncritical stance, (2) from a personal experience stance, and (3) from a social constructionist perspective. The whole piece, taken together, attempts to tackle the issue of theory as practice — to ground/unmask/make present the ways in which we are socialised into a profession and the problems inherent in that process. Two themes run through the work: the double bind created for a student on a counselling course which makes some claim to train around Rogers' core conditions, and which is also assessed/accredited; the connections between theory, training and practices.