088 – Reflective Journal Writing – Working with Clients Going through Court
Counselling Tutor podcast
Kenneth Kelly
4.8 • 657 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In episode 88 of the Counselling Tutor Podcast, Ken Kelly and Rory Lees-Oakes offer tips on writing a reflective journal (a common requirement of counselling training courses). In 'Practice Matters', Rory talks about what you need to know when working with clients who are going through a court case. The episode closes with a discussion on disclosing personal problems to the group as a counselling student.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Counseling Tutor podcast, the must listen to podcast for students of counselling and psychotherapy. |
| 0:10.6 | Here are your hosts, Rory Lee's Oaks and Ken Kelly. |
| 0:15.7 | Hello and welcome to the counselling tutor podcast with me, Rory Lee's Oaks, And with me, as always, my fellow traveller in everything therapeutic, Mr. Ken Kelly. |
| 0:25.0 | How you doing, Ken? |
| 0:25.6 | Oh, exceptionally well today. |
| 0:27.4 | Excited for today's episode, episode 88. |
| 0:30.4 | We're really going to be bringing you some valuable information, starting off with reflective journal writing. That's always an interesting topic. |
| 0:40.1 | We see that so often in the Facebook page and more and more courses requiring a reflective journal |
| 0:46.9 | to be written while you are training. In practice matters today. We're going to be looking |
| 0:51.5 | at a very important subject is working with clients who may be going through a court case. |
| 0:57.0 | And Rory, I know that you have in your own private practice experience this. |
| 1:01.0 | Can you kind of share a little bit of what we might expect from that? |
| 1:05.1 | Yes, I'm going to kind of demystify what happens if you have a client who comes in and says, you know, as part of what's |
| 1:13.3 | happening, I'm also going through a court case. I'm going to be talking a little bit about |
| 1:17.3 | professional thinking around that and what you might have to put in place. |
| 1:22.5 | Like it, looking forward to that one. And then we are ending episode 88 today with speaking about disclosure of |
| 1:29.5 | personal problems, personal issues that we may be facing as we are doing our training. How might |
| 1:35.5 | we do that? Should we do that? How might we deal with them? But starting us off today, |
| 1:40.6 | reflective journal writing, Rory. Yes. and before we start, in my loft, in the loft at counselling towers, |
| 1:50.3 | I've got all my assignments, everything from my diploma when I did it 15 years ago, |
| 1:56.1 | and in it is my personal development statements and my personal journals, |
| 2:00.6 | and occasionally, usually at Christmas, when I go up to get the Christmas tree out, |
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