• Psychology Conference Auckland 2006

• Curtin University-Perth postgrad in CP

• La Trobe University -Melbourne postgrad in CP

• Macquarie University - Melbourne postgrad in CP

• Monash University - Melbourne postgrad in CP

Dear Exec Members of CC

You can add a piece to each of the news pages - the first thing you might want to add is how you can be contacted by people who want to have news items posted to the regional page.  When you log out (see bottom of page) the changes you have made will be automatically saved to the site.

Let's have a play with this until next Friday28th April, then put a link on the APS website and announce the beast to all our members (and potential members).

Geoff

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Mission Statement Draft   

   Counselling Psychology emerged as a profession committed to assisting clients adjust to various changes and developments in their social, vocational, educational, relational and personal worlds. As a profession it now recognises social change as the term missing from the earlier discourse on adjustment, and considers  it important to address issues of  human diversity (race, ethnicity, culture, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability) in its practice, theorising, and research. Counselling psychology lays emphasis on therapeutic partnership (working alliance or therapeutic alliance) through a participation with clients in the therapeutic tasks of setting goals, agreeing on mutually acceptable roles, and developing a relationship of trust, while its commitment to scientific research in support of counselling and psychotherapy is steadfast.

     Rather than seeing research and practice as distinct activities, counselling psychologists are committed to bringing the two together – practitioner/researcher is an apt summary.

   Counselling psychologists acknowledge the integral nature of the relationship to all forms of psychotherapy. They further acknowledge the importance of both medical biopsychosocial, and cultural perspectives in understanding and explaining  both the formation of mental illness and problem behaviour, and in understanding, explaining and implementing the treatment and caring regimes established to address such issues.

    Training in Counselling Psychology gives students a thorough grounding in research based therapeutic interventions; knowledge of both the psychiatric nosological system and their limitations; sensitive culturally-appropriate assessment (particularly noting work contexts with indigenous Australian and migrant groups); and knowledge of appropriate ways of addressing a range of human suffering as it is presented in a typical practice setting that emphasise self-management, and that are ecologically sensitive to the client’s family and social environment.