Assignment 1 Therapeutic Counselling

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Psyc3705 Assignment 1: Experiencing a counselling organisation and writing a narrative about the organisation and the experience within the context of the course content, namely Transformative Counselling Psychology. I have chosen to look at the Johannesburg Parent and Child Counselling Center because of my encounters with them earlier this year and my hope of future encounters with them when I continue to partake in their training programmes. I will use my knowledge from my studies of Transformative Counselling Encounters to explore my encounters with this organisation. (1) The Johannesburg Parent and Child Counselling Center or JPCCC, began in 1944 as “The Johannesburg Child Guidance Clinic” (JPCCC, 2012) before progressing to the establishment that it is known as today with offices in “Berea, Rosebank, Soweto and Hartebeesport” (JPCCC, 2012). The JPCCC is a “counselling, training and development Agency” (JPCCC, 2012), which aims to help families be it parents or children by facilitating “psychosocial support and development projects” (JPCCC, 2012), either for the “short – term or long – term” (JPCCC, 2012) periods. The aim is to guide the families, parent and or child, through challenging times in their lives by empowering them to function at the best of their abilities (JPCCC, 2012). The JPCCC focuses on the community and strives in the upliftment of people within the community by providing several services from “counselling, to psychological assessment and training and workshops” (JPCCC, 2012). I was fortunate enough to partake in their “Basic Counselling Skills Course” (JPCCC, 2012) earlier this year (February 2012 – June 2012) after having them recommended to me by friends (Appendix 1). The JPCCC’s main area of focus is in reinforcing and stabilizing “family life” (JPCCC, 2012) in an effort to maintain the status quo within the household and
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