Counselling Connection

Carol Moore (Manager - AIPC Adelaide) is hosting a FUND RAISING QUIZ/AUCTION NIGHT on FRIDAY 20th April 2012. If you are based in Adelaide and surrounding areas, we would love you to attend. Bring your friends/family - have your own table of 10 or make up several tables and have your ... Read More

Unlike PTSD, which focuses on impairment, the concept of posttraumatic growth aligns with counselors’ focus on clients’ strengths, wellness and capacity for change. By Jonathan Rollins Since 9/11 and the United States’ subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, many Americans have grown all too familiar with the term posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), ... Read More

Mental Health Social Support (MHSS) skills are possibly the most crucial life skill you can have. Would you know: If a friend, family member or colleague had suicidal thoughts? How to assist someone having a panic attack? How to help someone with an addiction? How to help someone with depression? MHSS skills will teach you to ... Read More

Rothschild, B. (2006). Help for the helper. The psychophysiology of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. New York. W. W. Norton & Company.

Burnout, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma are risks that, as therapist we are aware of however whilst many of us have a toolbox full of techniques to assist our ... Read More

Did your New Year resolution include expanding your education? If so, we still have a handful of places left in our Semester 1, 2012 intake for the Bachelor of Counselling and Bachelor of Psychological Science. But they won’t last long, so you must act now. If you want a secure future doing something ... Read More