Explore own recent Use your core theoretical approach to inform your and formative understanding of your own past and recent personal personal history history. Develop your understanding through personal therapeutic counselling and personal development workshops. With reference to your core theoretical approach Explore own patterns explore your own explicit and implicit patterns of of relating relating. Show your increased understanding of personal patterns of relating e.g. by reflecting on your – personal counselling, personal development sessions and your relationships within the training group. LEARNING 5.2 Work on personal issues that resonate OUTCOME: with client work Assessment criteria Candidate guidance to criteria Portfolio references 5.2.1 Work on own Identify e.g. by supervision or therapeutic – emotional difficulties counselling personal emotional difficulties and – and internal conflicts internal conflicts that could have an impact on your that could impact on client work either negatively or positively. client work Reflect on insights and changes which emerge from personal therapeutic counselling and personal development workshops and show awareness of the – relevance of these issues to own client work. Work on own recent Identify formative personal life events that could have and past life events an impact on your client work either negatively or that could impact on positively. client work Use supervision/personal therapeutic counselling to reflect on and understand how events resonate with client work. Show how increased understanding of own recent and past life events is relevant to own client work. Work on own Use personal therapeutic counselling and supervision relationship to help identify personal relationship difficulties that difficulties that resonate with client work. impact on client work Identify explicit and implicit relationship difficulties and document how they could impact on your client work. Show how increased understanding of your own relationship difficulties is relevant to own client work. LEARNING 5.3 Use self awareness to enhance counselling OUTCOME: work Assessment criteria Candidate guidance to criteria Portfolio references 5.3.1 Reflect on the Reflect on role of factors’ and therapist’s ‘therapist importance of self self awareness in client work. awareness in Evaluate own capacity to challenge and deepen counselling work understanding of own self. Reflect on and give examples of how clients evoke aspects of self. ‘shadow’
Explore own recent and formative personal history Use your core theoretical approach to inform your understanding of your own past and recent personal history. Develop your understanding through personal therapeutic counselling and personal development workshops. Explore own patterns of relating With reference to your core theoretical approach explore your own explicit and implicit patterns of relating. Show your increased understanding of personal patterns of relating – e.g. by reflecting on your personal counselling, personal development sessions and your relationships within the training group. LEARNING OUTCOME: 5.2 Work on personal issues that resonate with client work Assessment criteria Candidate guidance to criteria Portfolio references 5.2.1 Work on own emotional difficulties and internal conflicts that could impact on client work Identify – e.g. by supervision or therapeutic counselling – personal emotional difficulties and internal conflicts that could have an impact on your client work either negatively or positively. Reflect on insights and changes which emerge from personal therapeutic counselling and personal development workshops – and show awareness of the relevance of these issues to own client work. Work on own recent and past life events that could impact on client work Identify formative personal life events that could have an impact on your client work either negatively or positively. Use supervision/personal therapeutic counselling to reflect on and understand how events resonate with client work. Show how increased understanding of own recent and past life events is relevant to own client work. Work on own relationship difficulties that impact on client work Use personal therapeutic counselling and supervision to help identify personal relationship difficulties that resonate with client work. Identify explicit and implicit relationship difficulties and document how they could impact on your client work. Show how increased understanding of your own relationship difficulties is relevant to own client work. LEARNING OUTCOME: 5.3 Use self awareness to enhance counselling work Assessment criteria Candidate guidance to criteria Portfolio references 5.3.1 Reflect on the importance of self awareness in counselling work Reflect on role of ‘therapist factors’ and therapist’s self awareness in client work. Evaluate own capacity to challenge and deepen understanding of own self. Reflect on and give examples of how clients evoke ‘shadow’ aspects of self.