I invite you on an intellectual, practical and personal journey through six of the most interesting and important approaches to contemporary counselling: Introducing Counselling and Therapy Approaches Assignment, IC, Ireland

I invite you on an intellectual, practical and personal journey through six of the most interesting and important approaches to contemporary counselling and therapy. Though you may not have thought of it this way, you already started your journey as a personality theorist long ago as you developed ideas about what makes people tick and ‘what makes the world go around.

Already, many of you will have had differing degrees of exposure to the ideas covered here and may have incorporated some of them into your personal view of how people think, feel and behave. In this hook, I aim to assist you to move further along the path towards developing your theory of human development and gaining practical knowledge about how to conduct counselling and therapy.

A useful distinction exists between schools of counselling and therapy and theoretical approaches to counselling and therapy. A theoretical approach presents a single position regarding the theory and practice of counselling and therapy. A school of counselling and therapy is a grouping of different theoretical approaches which are similar to one another in terms of certain important characteristics that distinguish them from theoretical approaches in other counselling and therapy schools.