Marriage guidance counsellor.

Marriage guidance counselling in a group practice.

This paper describes the work of a marriage guidance cousellor in a group-practice centre. The considerable advantages to patient, doctor, and counsellor of her close association with the primary medical care team are discussed.

The work of marriage guidance counsellors.

Introduction The first Marriage Guidance Council was established in the late 1930s. In response to growing concern about the increasing divorce rate, which was then rising to 7000 divorces per annum, a small group of clergy, magistrates, doctors and social workers conceived the notion of establishing an agency which would specifically offer help to people in marital difficulties. Faute de mieux...

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Age, Gender, and Ethnicity of Counsellor Trainees and Corresponding Counselling Self-Efficacy: Research Findings and Implications for Counsellor Educators

This study explored the counselling self-efficacy of students in a counsellor education programme, in regard to age, gender, and ethnicity characteristics. To assess counselling self-efficacy, the Counselling Self-Estimate Inventory (COSE) of Larson et al. (Counsellor Education & Supervision 41: 120-130, 1992) was administered at the end of a semester to counselling students engaged in differen...

The Importance of PRI Therapy for the Pastoral Counsellor

It is not always easy for pastoral counsellors to help people change. Often people have become stuck in their ways. Recent developments in the field of brain research help explain why change is difficult. This article discusses Past Reality Integration Therapy (PRI), a psychotherapeutic method that integrates recent findings of brain research and offers an important addition to the work of (pas...