Welcome to the Counseling Tutor Podcast, the must listen to podcast for students of counseling and

psychotherapy. Here are your hosts, Rory Lee's Oaks and Ken Kelly. Hello and welcome to the

counseling tutor podcast with me, Rory Lee's Oaks. And with me is my fellow traveller on the Information Super Highway. Mr. Ken Kelly, how are you, Ken? Oh, I am so good today, Rory. Thank you very much for asking a little bit of sun here in Warrington, which brightens everything up. I've even had to close one of the curtains so it doesn't shine on the screen and I can see you. It's interesting you mentioned information superhighway

because that kind of keys in to what we're going to be covering today

in an action-packed episode, this episode 28.

We're going to be kicking off speaking about the information highway itself,

speaking about where counselling is going.

They say the future of counselling, but I guess it's the now of counselling when we look at e-counselling or online counselling is going. They say the future of counselling, but I guess

it's the now of counselling when we look at e-counselling or online counselling. And then something

really interesting for me is theory with Rory today. It's an area of which I know little about,

I will say for you, Rory, and that is cognitive dissonance. Are you going to be giving us a

flavour of that? I am. and this is an academic podcast.

If you're listening to this for the first time, just kind of bear with us because this is a theory

born of an interesting book called When Prophecy Fails.

And it's a story and you'll find it in any psychology book of aliens and end of the world.

And the psychologists who studied End of the World cults and came up with this really interesting theory called cognizant. And I was equally interesting about the work of Leon

Festinger is that he was part of this organisation, he infiltrated it, and saw firsthand how

people's thinking could be altered. And it links in very strongly to clients who are sometimes

a little hard to help because they may be in an abusive relationship

and they may be convincing themselves that some level not to change and not to move away from it.

So cognitive dissidence, but it does feature aliens and it does feature any end of the world.

So it is an interesting archetype

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