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2002Author
Fetherston, A. BettsKeyword
Counselling trainingGerard Egan
Opportunity development
Power
Problem management
Social constructionism
The Skilled Helper
Peer-Reviewed
Yes
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Gerard Egan's problem management and opportunity development model is currently in use training prospective counsellors, social workers, nurses, managers, etc. the skills of helping. This essay attempts, experimentally, to depict in three different ways Egan's work and its relationship to operations of power: (1) from a relatively uncritical stance, (2) from a personal experience stance, and (3) from a social constructionist perspective. The whole piece, taken together, attempts to tackle the issue of theory as practice ¿ to ground/unmask/make present the ways in which we are socialised into a profession and the problems inherent in that process. Two themes run through the work: the double bind created for a student on a counselling course which makes some claim to train around Rogers' core conditions, and which is also assessed/accredited; the connections between theory, training and practices.Version
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Fetherston, A.B. (2002). Double Bind: An Essay on Counselling Training. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 108-125.Link to Version of Record
https://doi.org/10.1080/14733140212331384887Type
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https://doi.org/10.1080/14733140212331384887