Counselling Connection

“Almost a million Australians turned up to work drunk or under the influence of drugs last year, a survey says. The first results of the 2007 National Drug Strategy Household survey found 4 per cent of the population aged over 14 - about 690,000 Australians - admitted to going to

  Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a directive client-centred counselling style for eliciting behaviour change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence (Rollnick, William and Miller, 1995). Motivational Interviewing is a relatively new cognitive-behavioural therapy, which uses simple, transparent and supportive discussion with the aim of helping the client to: understand his or ... Read More

From a practical perspective, the Internet and other communication technologies have affected nearly all areas of human life; and the helping professions are not an exception to this rule. In December 2007, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) published an article (“Therapy Today”, Vol 18 No 10) discussing the ... Read More

  This is our 300th post and to celebrate it, we’re giving away a free copy of our member-exclusive Journal The Professional Counsellor. In this edition of the Journal, we focus on working with the elderly. Some of the featured articles include: A Case for Solutions When Working with the Elderly ... Read More