It’s all about them
Group counselling is a challenging and dynamic form of counselling that requires all-round professional skills from counsellors. It implies that any challenges a counsellor may find in helping an individual can potentially duplicate, triplicate, or vastly multiply - however, the more intricate the challenge is, the higher the rewards.
In this article, we define the basic elements of group counselling and provide several guidelines - after all, the core prerequisite of understanding group dynamics is not only part of the counsellor’s professional framework, but part of a much larger perspective: the framework of life.
See the full article HERE. It’s insightful professional development material for therapists – including two stories from professional counsellors who have dealt with groups.
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