HE COUNSELLING SUPERVISION

I believe that university counselling has become a highly specialised field requiring knowledge and skills over and above those of a generic counsellor. For this reason there needs to be a good fit between counsellor and supervisor and supervisors really need to understand the academic context of the work and the impact of late adolescent development on they way students present. Crucially, they also need to advocate for the effectiveness of short term counselling. with this client group. Without this fit, counsellors can feel confused and undermined by the subtle contradictions between what supervisors say about clinical need, and what is required within the university context... Description of Terry Patterson's professional credentials

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