Violent Crime, Domestic Abuse and Alcohol

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Barnsley Safer Communities Partnership Domestic
Sexual Abuse Conference
Can Counselling Really Help?
Presented By Derrick Thompson
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Objectives of the Workshop

• Define the emotional and psychological impact of
  domestic abuse on victims
• Illustrate prevalence of this within abusive
  relations
• Provide an overview of the variety of different
  counselling approaches
• Focus on one approach
• Examine how this works with regard to abuse and
  its effectiveness
• Discuss the practical applications of counselling

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Feel useless
ugly
Feel hopeless
False self image
constant fear
Constant panic
too thin
Feel worthless
Feel a failure
Too fat
Stress
Depression
guilt
Anxiety
Totally detached
Believe they are mad
PTSD
suicidal
No self esteem
No self worth
No self determination
Totally isolated
dependant
They are to blame
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Person-centred approach

• Carl Rogers is the person credited with
  developing and promoting this form of counselling

• This approach to counselling puts the client at
  the centre of the activity

• The belief is that it is the client that knows
  best how to solve their own problems

• This is the method of counselling most commonly
  taught in the South Yorkshire area

• Subsequently is the core method employed by 99
  of the counsellors at Pathways

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Carl Rogers Theory
1. The core of human personality is constructive
and good
2. People want to achieve their full potential
3. Being enabled to do this is self healing
4. Therefore it is the counsellors role to
provide the right conditions in order for this to
happen
5. This is achieved when there is a complete
absence of threat
6. Each individual has their own view on reality
7. Therefore the only way to understand some one
is to see their own view of reality
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The application theory into practice

• what is required by the counsellor is to develop
  a relationship in which the client is fully
  accepted
• and valued

• the characteristics of a relationship which
  would have this effect were summarised by
• Carl Rogers in his formulation of the necessary
  and sufficient conditions of therapeutic
• personality change these being

• no other conditions are necessary and if these
  continue over a period of time, this
• is all That is required and a process of
  constructive personality change will follow.

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Congruence (Genuineness)
This involves the counsellor being open to their
feelings , being their real self without front or
façade Not acting like an expert. Rogers
described this as the core condition of
genuineness is the challenge to be ourselves
fallible, imperfect, not knowing all the answers.
Unconditional positive regard
The counsellor has to accept the client as a
worthwhile human being. They must be able to
believe that they are worthy, and deep down they
are a human being of equal value.
Empathic understanding
Seeing and understanding the clients world from
their point of view, with all its meanings. The
emphasis is not only being able to do this but
doing this gently and in a way that communicates
An empathic understanding to The client.