“A narrative or story is anything told or recounted; more narrowly, something told or recounted in the form of a causally-linked set of events; account; tale, the telling of a happening or connected series of happenings, whether true or fictitious” (Denning, 2006).

Your life is a narrative, counted and recounted from many different perspectives, and by diverse people. There are settings, themes, characters and plots – just like in any movie, book, historical...

A prominent aspect of counsellor training involves the analysis of ethical situations. Counsellors need to be malleable to the variety of situations in which the client’s personality traits and environmental circumstances are prominent barriers to the relationship’s progress.

Codes of practice, ethical guidelines and counselling micro-skills play a role in supporting the counsellor’s decision-making process towards the relationship; however, client and...

Are you a very important person? Sure you are. The reason for this answer is the same to almost everyone in this planet: we like talking about ourselves, we enjoy being listened, we praise our achievements, and we are very much into introspection. Although we are ultimately social beings, most humans are both consciously and subconsciously determined to improve themselves, and to derive meaning to their existence. In this context, we are faced with the everyday challenge of balancing...

Become a Behavioral Profiler

Learn to Tell the Truth from Lies

By Carol Forsloff

With everybody trying to sell you something, or making promises, how do you tell what’s true and what’s false anymore? Do you just trust your instincts and hope for the best? Or are there some clues you can use to decide what to do. Do you believe the salesmen’s pitch about that sewing machine or walk out shaking your head and moving on to look for what you want...

Feinberg states that psychological egoism contains a tautology touching upon the idea that every person's motives of doing something are only for his best benefit, and therefore they are purely selfish. He believes that the only question which needs to be proved is that every action is accompanied by a quite particular motive - the selfish one. His reasoning is that we must look not at the origin of the motive, but at its aim. This is where a controversy is hidden, however. A motive...

Not all academic underachievers are alike. The problem of underachievement is a symptom - like a stomach ache - that can have many different causes, each of which requires a different solution.

Consider a random sample of, say, 100 students (from about 3rd grade through graduate school) whom we would identify as "underachievers." If we carefully assess each one, we will find that there are many different underlying causes. These can include ADD (Attention Deficit...

Why do people lie?  Why do some people seem to NOT be able to tell the truth even when the truth is clearly obvious or evident?  What makes a person tell lies instead of the truth?
Liars eventually get caught in their tangled web of lies and deceitfulness.  Lying hurts the liar and those who are subjected to the lies of the liar.  Lying hurts relationships and it makes the liar untrustworthy.  A liar violates the trust others may have had in...

Self-care is an intrinsic, continuous and highly important activity performed by any professional, particularly those involved in health care. Also called the 'inner therapy', this practice aims to ensure that both mental and physical health of the professional is in good shape. So why is self-care for Counsellors important? Essentially, Counsellors have a clear responsibility: their clients. If a Counsellor is not mentally and physically healthy, his/her ability to provide support to...

GRIEF THERAPHY AND THE BIOLOGICAL & PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS IN BEREAVEMENT COUNSELLING


Grief therapy, statistically, there appears to be a growing demand for, and bereavement counselling. Officially admittedly training is poor in bereavement counselling. So is counselling education on the psychological & biological effects on the clients feelings and emotions, making empathy less effective in grief therapy.

Grief, mourning, bereavement; words synonymous...

Many of us do not understand what happiness is all about. We do not have any idea of the thing that we are in fact looking for. It is not easy to answer the query with a suitable reply. It is an eternal question dwelling in the minds of human race, which has been explained to some extent by the great and the learned. The concept of happiness is truly varying in nature where different opinions prevail.

Majority of us believe that the condition is encouraging for achievement...