The following notes are an aid to up-skilling and cross-skilling your counseling micro-skills, to complement your university studies or supervision training. They are not a replacement for your class/internship materials and instruction. Reference Beck, K., & Kulzer, J. (2018). Teaching counseling microskills to audiology students: Recommendations from professional counseling educators. Seminars in Hearing, 39(1), 91-106. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0037-1613709 Summ

Counseling micro-skills are required for you to deliver high quality counseling assignments, demonstrations, and future intervention. Often, the micro-skills for counseling are underestimated in value by the student reading and learning about them. But they are essential to develop trust and rapport with the client, and to maintain that therapeutic relationship. TL;DR ~ click on the pic below... Simulated clients are usually part of your university/supervised counseling tr

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Razdan , A. (2003). What’s love got to do with it? Are arranged marriages healthier than romantic attraction? http://www.utne.com/2003-05-01/whats-love-got-to-do-with-it.aspx The focus of Razdan’s article is to discuss the way in which socio-cultural backgrounds can affect how a person feels about love and marriage. Her purpose was to analyse whether arranged marriages are better than non-arranged marriages. The thesis for the article was: Love cannot be analysed. This paper

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The pressure on educators to be accountable for the learning outcomes of students is a key issue in current literature on authentic assessment. The following paper will critique the rubric for an authentic assessment developed by Hanlonen and colleagues (2003) for use with first year psychology students taking the subject, The History of Psychology. A convenience sample of post-graduate and undergraduate students (n= 5) who are or have taken at least one semester of psycholog