Counselling with Difference

One of the foremost challenges facing counselling professionals is to understand the complex role that client diversity plays in their work. In counselling, each client's needs and objectives...

Personal Traits Towards Effective Counselling

What are the personal qualities associated with being an effective Counsellor? Counselling theorists and researchers have given this question much attention and research has identified a framework of personal skills which are shared among highly effective counsellors...

The Therapeutic Approach in Counselling

In the context of mental health, therapy has vastly changed over time. Long before the scientific approach to the treatment of mental health prevailed, attempts to discover the underpinnings of the human mind produced a wide range of therapies and theories. For many centuries...

Heuristics and What are They

Heuristics and its nature, as well as the role that they play in the understanding and clarification of human behavior can not be ignored in the study of cognitive psychology. Heuristics, put in simple terms, can be recognized and defined as shortcuts employed by humans to draw up potential solutions to a task or problem at the beginning of the problem and are widely recognized as highly effective, remarkably good methods for making spontaneous and rapid decisions or judgments even under heavy time constraints. As for how they can be considered as either helpful or as a hindrance in the decision making process and in problem solving, there are obvious implications from the very nature of the concept of heuristics, such as the time saving and convenience of such shortcuts and the possible drawback of making rash decisions and eliminating potentially viable means to come to a solution because of a lack of information or inexperience in that area. Based on the definition of what heuristics are, there are a variety of different conclusions that you could come to in regards to what they tell us about how our mind works. In this essay we shall attempt to identify what conclusions can be made about how our mind works when considering the effects that heuristics have.

Creating the Counsellor Mindset: Part One

Counselling, Psychology and other professions which are involved with mental health-related therapies require a particular career blueprint which includes a variety of traits and skills. What is this blueprint? In a 4-article series, we depict the major areas which are responsible for building the effective counsellor's mindset. This is Part One.

Creating the Counsellor Mindset: Part Four

Counselling, Psychology and other professions which are involved with mental health-related therapies require a particular career blueprint which includes a variety of traits and skills. What is this blueprint? In a 4-article series, we depict the major areas which are responsible for building the effective counsellor's mindset. This is Part Four.

Mistakes

The most difficult problems in criminal theory are generated by dissonance between reality and belief, between the objective facts and the actor's subjective impression of the facts.

The Keys to Successful Dating for Men

Dating has proven to be a good way to meet new friends, romances or even one's soul mate.

Critical Issues in Forensic Psychology: False Confessions

The topic of false confessions is another very important issue within a legal context where psychological knowledge and expertise can be brought be bear. Psychological vulnerabilities and interrogative circumstances are two of the key areas that have been examined by psychologists in relation to false confessions.

Abuse Victims Widely Misdiagnosed

Victims of rape and child sexual abuse are often given a wrong diagnosis. Most suffer posttraumatic stress disorder, but they may be labelled the insulting diagnosis of borderline personality disorder.

Medical Missions: Are We Really Making A Difference?

Medical missions: reaching-out to the needy.

Latent Homosexuality: Paranoid Delusions Rage and Anxiety

Male homosexuality is more of a threat to men than female homosexuality is to women. It is widely agreed among psychotherapists that men who have an underlying fear of their homosexual tendencies often are vehemently abusive in their attacks against homosexuality. While those who do not feel threatened by any homosexual leanings within themselves have a greater understanding and more relaxed in their relationships with people of homosexual proclivities. It is further believed that transsexualists, those who change sex by surgical means, are so afraid of homosexuality that they rather give up their maleness forever than face their homosexual tendencies. Also, men often become sexually aroused by the display of female homosexuality even though they may find viewing any sexual activity between two men offensive. Women, on the other hand, usually exhibit little interest in witnessing an manifestations of either male or female homosexuality.

Depression, Holiday Blues, Seasonal Affective Disorder: The Other Side of Merry Christmas

Are you a victim of the holiday blues? The glare and dazzle of Christmas lights and the rush of activity between Thanksgiving and New Year can mask the other side of the holiday - depression and loneliness. While depression is a common illnesses for many adults, Christmas blues can be experienced by many who have heightened and unrealistic expectations about holiday events.

Adolescent Psychology

Adolescence is the intermediary stage of growth between childhood and adulthood. It represents the period of time during which a person is subjected to an array of biological transformations and runs into a number of emotional tribulations. The ages, which are termed to be part of adolescence, vary by ethnicity and extend from the preteens to nineteen years. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), adolescence encompasses the epoch of life between 10 and 20 years of age. Adolescence is an especially unstable as well as a vibrant period of any person?s life.

Mind Is Found Throughout Life

Mind exists throughout life. Even each cell in the body, for example, has a mind of its own - it knows what its function is, and it proceeds to fulfill it.