A Little Zen (Revised 2015)

A Little Zen (Revised 2015)

Anyone studying counselling or psychotherapy might find it useful to study a little Zen along the way; but in doing so one needs to be mindful that too much Zen can leave you with the reputation of having ‘the stink of zen’. This is because it is a bit like a joke,...
Clients as Heroes

Clients as Heroes

It’s 50 years since Carl Rogers published his Client Centered Therapy with it’s claim that no person is essentially bad or ill, but at worse merely working out their natural potential to find the healthy goodness that all people are. Roger’s philosophical base was...
Early Intervention Ethics

Early Intervention Ethics

With an estimate of a little over 1% of the population attracting a diagnosis of schizophrenia, it is reckoned that 1 new case for every 10,000 people will be identified each year by mental health workers as deserving this diagnosis.  As a result of the effectiveness...