Counselling and Therapy Battle
My personal viewpoint on this question. “Does the person-centred counsellor need to adapt his/her approach or use specific techniques for different client groups or agency settings?” I feel that my personal view point has been dominant right through this whole assignment and I have found it difficult to focus on the situation it refers to, counselling in a one to one environment and find I keep repeating what I am trying to say and keep coming back to another question “What the hell is going on here” and it appears to me that there is a lot of in fighting with in the PC model over who owns the PC label, not that we use labels in the PC approach, and this in fighting expands out in the counselling and therapy world in general to in compass all the different approaches. It appears to me like a medieval battle field, with each approach fortified with in its own encampments and their past successes, statistics and victories like elaborately decorated standards, flying high above each of their encampments. It’s followers gathered around blazing camp fires muttering the words of long gone founding fathers, and refining the finer points of theory until it’s edge is as sharp as a battle axe, that can be wheeled on the battle field of funding.
