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HOW DOES THE MEDICAL MODEL INFLUENCE COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY?

A one-day workshop to be led by

Dr Rachel Freeth, Psychiatrist and Counsellor

Sunday 10 June 2012    9:30 am - 5:00 pm    Fee: £65.00 

About this workshop:

From birth to death we are all influenced, directly and indirectly, by medical model thinking.  It has crept into our cultural consciousness and shapes our assumptions, attitudes and expectations about illness and wellness, about discovering what causes someone's dis-ease, and about how to 'make them better'.  And that's the business we're in - certainly as viewed by many clients, particularly when seen in healthcare organisations.  And, maybe inevitably, it affects our self- perceptions too...

The aim of this workshop is to lift the lid and look inside - to see what this model represents, how it has been constructed, to poke around and understand what it really does.... and then to question and explore....

How might my clients be affected by medical model thinking and practice?

How might this influence the therapy process? 

What are my own attitudes and responses to the medical model and in what ways do they influence my practice?

How have its values influenced many counselling and psychotherapy approaches, particularly within healthcare settings?

This workshop will appeal to therapists who are interested in exploring the impact of the medical model on their work with clients, and to those who wish to develop a more informed critique of it.

About Rachel Freeth:

Rachel is a psychiatrist working in a Community Mental Health Team in Herefordshire.  In 1998 she completed a Diploma in Counselling in the Person-Centred Approach and has since sought to bring the values, philosophy and attitudes of the approach into mental health settings.  She has written about the challenges of this in her book 'Humanising Psychiatry and Mental Health Care. The challenge of the person-centred approach' (2007, Radcliffe Publishing). 

Rachel writes: "I have always been interested in bridging the worlds of psychiatry and counselling and the contrasting worlds of psychiatry and the person-centred approach.  Much of this has been through writing and delivering workshops.  I would describe myself as a philosophically and socially orientated psychiatrist, keen to bring humanistic and spiritual values into mental health settings.  I have a professional interest in ethics, particularly as they apply to psychiatry and other mental health professions.  One of my aims is to help counsellors and psychotherapists develop greater understanding and confidence regarding psychiatric issues" 

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