Posted by bil on April 8, 2007, at 18:08:41
In reply to tomorrow's the day but i am ticked off **trigger**, posted by gazo on April 8, 2007, at 17:10:03
Gazo-
I do understand totally what you are saying.
Several years ago I thought that one route to try to heal myself was to do a counselling course myself; I completed the first year of a certified course, and was well into the second year when I decided to drop out.
One of the primary things that really annoyed me was the blind adherence to different 'schools' of teaching... (one of my professors said that Carl Rogers was 'god'... oh, puh-leese!!) while another thought Freud could do no wrong. Ever.What did it for me was that during the final part of the second year, all we focused on was the 'code of practice', which is basically the legal jargon that a therapist uses to cover their back.
I was supposedly studying to learn basic counselling skills.... but all they were going to teach us was how to compare counselling ethics to other 'professional sector' ethics, (and yes, if I'd stuck the course, I would now be a qualified counselor).
All they really taught us was how to use a few basic listening skills- echo, echo, echo, paraphrase, and re-phrase. That's it, basically!I am not impressed with the therapy profession as a whole.... I'm looking into alternative ways of healing now.
bil
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