Practice Framework

Question 1

Define inductive learning

Answer 1

a change in behaviour as a result of experience or input that centres the participant

Question 2

What has inductive research found?

Answer 2

people learn best by doing

Question 3

What is ‘experiencing’?

Answer 3

the activity phrase

Question 4

What is ‘publishing’?

Answer 4

Sharing reactions and observations

Question 5

What is ‘processing’?

Answer 5

Discussing patterns and dynamics

Question 6

What is ‘generalising’?

Answer 6

Developing real-world principles

Question 7

What is ‘applying’?

Answer 7

Planning effective use of learning

Question 8

What is reflective practice?

Answer 8

helps us to become aware of our underlying beliefs and assumptions so we understand why we do what we do

Question 9

How is counselling defined by Geldard?

Answer 9

counselling is a special way of helping people which involves the use of particular verbal, non-verbal and relationship skills in order to facilitate change so that the person being helped can feel better and discover new ways of thinking and behaving

Question 10

Why do we need a framework?

Answer 10

Professional identity

Question 11

What is professional identity?

Answer 11

the possession of core values, beliefs and assumptions about the unique characteristics of one’s selected profession that differentiates it from other professions

Question 12

What is the Head, Hands and Heart Framework?

Answer 12

Head = knowledge
Hands = practical and bringing theory to practice 
Heart = compassion

Question 13

What is a framework?

Answer 13

• a coherent statement of ideas, principles and beliefs that guide our action in practice
• is used as a tool to assist reflection, coherence of ethical integrity and make sure what we do matches our stated theoretical and philosophical positions

Question 14

What is the order of the pyramid from bottom to top?

Answer 14

• Values (professional and personal)
• Epistemology
• Approach/Theory
• Skills

Question 15

Define Epistemology

Answer 15

• Theory of knowledge “knowing what we know”

- Philosophical

Question 16

Explain the modernist approach

Answer 16

counsellors can act as objective observers of the unconscious, mental structures or environmental contingencies that represent the client’s personal deficits

Question 17

How are therapists positioned in modernist approaches?

Answer 17

positioned as an expert and privileges therapists knowledge’s both regarding the problem and the resolution

Question 18

What are the modernist assumptions?

Answer 18

1. Clients are able to accurately acknowledge what they are experiencing
2. These experiences can be communicated to the counsellor through language
3. through language, counsellors can gain an accurate understanding of the experience their client is conveying
4. counsellor can then draw on universal law of human functioning (counselling theory) to impact a corrective or healing intervention
5. Clients, like all people, have a relatively stable psychological core or personality, changes to personal psychology will generalise to situations outside of counselling

Question 19

Explain the post-modern approach

Answer 19

• Problems that people face are understood as patterns of attention and meaning that are individually and socially constructed
• belief that language cannot accurately represent original experiences

Question 20

How does the post modern approach position clients?

Answer 20

Clients as experts and privileges client’s local knowledge regarding the problem and its resolution

Question 21

What is a theory?

Answer 21

a system of inferences, assumptions, and interactions drawn from observations and experiences