Kate continues with her regular column for the quarterly Journal of the BACP Workplace Division – this issue focuses on attending conferences. The bringing together of professional minds at conferences is one of the joys of our work. Conferences offer us learning opportunities, a networking event, and usually an element of socialising. Counselling can sometimes be… [Read More]
Cyberwork: The Reality of Virtual Trauma
Kate continues with her regular column for the quarterly Journal of the BACP Workplace Division (http://www.bacpworkplace.org.uk/journal.php) This issue focuses on Trauma. One of the most interesting potential applications of technology to our work as counsellors, and also the most unpredictable, is using virtual environments where the self is presented as an avatar – to deliver… [Read More]
Blogging Made Easy
Blogging is an important step in growing your professional online presence. Without a doubt, blogging, writing, pushing content into cyberspace is a social media and marketing strategy that is here to stay. So let’s go through a few important points to get you started or re-committed to the concept of blogging. Why? First, because you… [Read More]
The Workplace and Social Networking- Got Boundaries?
Kate continues with her regular column for the quarterly Journal of the BACP Workplace Division (http://www.bacpworkplace.org.uk/journal.php) This issue focuses on Social Networking Negotiating the boundaries between our professional and personal lives is increasingly a part of our work as therapists. If you use social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn you are probably… [Read More]
Cyberculture in the workplace: a beginner’s guide
Kate continues with her regular column for the quarterly Journal of the BACP Workplace Division. This issue focuses on online disinhibition. I’d like to introduce you to one of the core themes that apply to distance communication in whatever technology you are using. It’s called the “disinhibition effect” (Suler, 2004). It is very likely that… [Read More]
Online Therapy: Is the Client “Electronically Present” in Your Office?
The news yesterday brought a ruling in a New Jersey State Appeals Court that dismissed Linda and David Kubert’s civil liability claims against a Rockaway woman who sent a friend a text message moments before he crashed his pickup truck into their motorcycle in September 2009. Attorney Stephen Weinstein praised an appeals court decision that holds… [Read More]
BACP Coaching Division Networking Division welcomes Online Coaching!
I was delighted to be invited to Oxford UK – the City of Dreaming Spires – to present to the BACPC Oxford Networking group, to talk about Online Coaching. It was a pleasure to meet the well-attended group with new and experienced networking members. Thanks to Anne Cajella for a stunning buffet as well! I’m… [Read More]
Cyberculture in the Workplace
I was delighted to be invited recently to write a regular column for the quarterly Journal of the BACP Workplace Division. The Division “is for everyone interested in the provision [of] counselling in the workplace, the emotional health of organisations and the individuals within them. We are concerned with counselling that is provided directly or… [Read More]
