Effective Counselling and the Objectivity Challenge

Most people tend to be compassionate. Perhaps it is a human evolutionary trait, or simply the manner in which we have been trained to understand and act upon our emotions. Or it could stem from the need to help others in order to achieve a sense of belonging. In modern society...

Groups and Group Counselling

Group counselling is a challenging and dynamic form of counselling that requires all-round professional skills from counsellors. It implies that any challenges a counsellor may find in helping an individual can potentially duplicate, triplicate, or vastly multiply - however...

Counselling with Difference

One of the foremost challenges facing counselling professionals is to understand the complex role that client diversity plays in their work. In counselling, each client's needs and objectives...

Confidentiality and Professional Ethics in Counselling

Have you ever found yourself involved in an ethical dilemma? Even if you are not a counsellor or mental health professional, it is most likely that at some stage of your life...

Automatic Activation

The authors conducted the experiment in which one group of women was exposed to rape-related words and the other group was exposed to neutral words. Then the participants had to read the scenario about rape. The ambiguous scenario described the aggressiveness of man and the behaviour of woman who could possibly provoke the aggressive actions of man.

Save Our Children: When Is a Mother Dangerous to her Child or Others?

What could make a woman so desperate that she would kill her friend, her children, or another woman. We do not want to think of our mothers, sisters and daughters in this way. Prevention programs are available and need to be used.

Humans and their Inability to Cope

Many people get so stressed out that they cannot handle any sort of change in schedule and find themselves unable to cope with things. It is too bad that people get stressed over change and it is too bad so many humans have the inability to cope with things when they do change.

Learning Theory

Nowadays, probably as never before, scientists are extremely interested in the process of learning. Naturally, a number of different theories aiming at the explanation of this process were developed. It is quite difficult to decide what theory is better and more successful. On the other hand, we can say that all of them have to be analyzed in order to help us realize the main trends in learning theories.

Mistakes

The most difficult problems in criminal theory are generated by dissonance between reality and belief, between the objective facts and the actor's subjective impression of the facts.

The Keys to Successful Dating for Men

Dating has proven to be a good way to meet new friends, romances or even one's soul mate.

The Truth About Suicides

The sophisticated, modern world shuns at the idea of talking about suicide. However, man’s aversion to the idea of suicide does not diminish the fact that more and more people are contemplating about taking their lives everyday, every minute, every second.

Tips for Successful Conversations with Humans on Planet Earth

This article provides concise points for people looking to improve their communication skills during their conversations. It gives an overview of basic behavioral concepts and gives practical tips to produce amazing results.

Humanistic Psychology

Humanistic psychology is a school of psychology that came to be established somewhere in the 1950s. This was found in reaction to both behaviorism and psychoanalysis. Humanistic psychology is concerned with the human dimension of psychology and the human context for the growth of psychological theory.

Development Of Psychology

Psychology as a science is developing with close connection with other sciences, but the greatest influence it suffers from is in sociological science.