Counselling Connection

Below is a list of recommended textbooks in counselling and psychology. For your convenience we have included links to purchase these books via Amazon.com. If you are an AIPC student, contact your local Student Support Centre to find out how you can purchase these textbooks at discounted rates. Theory & Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy Author: Corey, G Corey’s current conscientious and student-friendly book shows you how to put eleven key counselling theories into practice and helps you develop the counselling method that’s right for you. Buy this book on Amazon Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions Authors: Corey, Corey and ... Read More

Four years ago I sat in a holiday unit staring at a selection of tablets that I, with a solid background in healthcare, was certain would take away all pain, permanently. I remember staring at the telephone in the room for an hour. Even now I do not know why I called 13 11 14 and spoke to Lifeline. The conversation was a turning point for me. In February 2008 I was offered a role managing Lifeline Top End; a questionable honour as, at the time, it had lost its staff and funding and all that remained was a Board that ... Read More

The Australian Institute of Psychology and Bond University’s School of Psychology are conducting a major national study that aims to gain further insight in to the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic practice within Australia. It is a broad sweeping national study that AIPC has agreed to collaborate on. To clarify the relevance of this project, there has never been a more important time to establish a large scale investigation into the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic practice. This is because the field of mental health within Australia is currently under a lot of scrutiny and there are a lot of questions in need of clear answers. For ... Read More

Looking for maladaptive communication patterns is a common form of assessment that therapists use (Long & Young, 2007). Based on John Gottman’s theory popularly known as the “Four Horseman of the Apocalypse”, the following subheadings are common communication problems that most couples experience or participate in. They include; criticism and complaint, defensiveness, contempt, and stone walling (Long & Young, 2007). When more than one of these communication problems are present in the relationship, then there is a very good chance the relationship will not survive (Halyard, 2008). Criticism and Complaint Criticism refers to one partner attacking or judging the other partner’s personality ... Read More

From elementary school through college, today’s students face an ever-expanding list of pressures, both inside and outside the classroom. By Lynne Shallcross It’s a good thing Jodi Mullen didn’t become a counselor exclusively for the compliments. Mullen, an associate professor and coordinator of the mental health counseling program at the State University of New York at Oswego, recalls working with a 12-year-old European American girl from a middle-class family whose presenting problem, according to the girl’s intake form, was “promiscuity.” “Promiscuity is one of those words that means different things to different people,” says Mullen, who coauthored the book Counseling Children: A Core ... Read More