Glossary
THERAPY TERMS
Career Coaching
Career coaches work with people who wish to improve their work satisfaction, change jobs, or make a career change. The coach acts as both a catalyst and facilitator of individual and, in turn, organisational development and transformation. Career coaches can do everything from help people clarify their career direction or get through a crossroads or transition, to designing CV's, preparing the client for interview, helping them overcome obstacles to their new job.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
CBT aims to help people in the ways they think (the cognitive) and in the ways they act (the behaviour). It is generally a short-term form of psychotherapy based on the idea that the way we think about things affects how we feel emotionally. CBT focuses on present thinking, behaviours, problem solving and communication rather than on past experiences. CBT can be applied to a broad range of problems including depression, anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, eating disorders, addictions and personality problems. Often CBT excercises in the form of written or actual tasks are set as part of programme of changing thinking and behaviour patterns.
Counselling
Counselling takes place when a counsellor sees a client in a private and confidential setting to explore a difficulty the client is having, distress they may be experiencing or dissatisfaction with their life, or loss of a sense of direction and purpose. By listening attentively and patiently the counsellor can begin to perceive the difficulties from the client’s point of view and can help them to see things more clearly, possibly from a different perspective. Counselling is a way of enabling choice or change or of reducing confusion. It does not involve giving advice or directing a client to take a particular course of action. Counsellors do not judge or exploit their clients. In the counselling sessions the client can explore various aspects of their life and feelings, talking about them freely and openly in a way that is rarely possible with friends or family. The counsellor will encourage the expression of feelings and as a result of their training will be able to accept and reflect the client’s problems without becoming burdened by them.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP )
NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a name that encompasses three influential components involved in producing human experience: neurology, language and programming. The neurological system regulates how the body functions, language determines how individuals interface and communicate with other people and a person’s programming determines the kinds of models of the world they create. Neuro-Linguistic Programming describes the fundamental dynamics between mind (neuro) and language (linguistic) and how their interplay effects the body and behavior (programming). The basic premise of NLP is that; the words we use reflect an inner, subconscious perception of our problems. If these words and perceptions are inaccurate, as long as we continue to use them and to think of them, the underlying problem will persist. In other words, our attitudes are, in a sense, a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Eating Disorders
‘Eating disorder’ refers to when a person eats, or refuses to eat, in order to satisfy an emotional need rather than a physical need. The person doesn’t listen to bodily signals or perhaps is not even aware of them. A normal person eats when hungry and stops eating when the body doesn’t need more, when he feels the signal of satisfaction. Eating disorders are usually classified as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, orthorexia or binge eating disorder in accordance with the symptoms.
Four most common types of eating disorders:
Bulimia Nervosa: Eating quickly and excessively, often in secret. This is followed by vomiting, fasting, exercise, laxatives or medicine in order to avoid an increase in weight.
Anorexia Nervosa: You don’t eat enough to maintain your normal weight. You are very afraid of becoming fat and have false ideas about your weight and figure.
Orthorexia: Being obsessed with calorie counting, one type of food, healthy food
Binge Eating: Eating too much in periods as a consequence of a craving for food which exceeds your real nutritional needs.
Human Resources (HR)
HR is the department within a business organisation that monitors the availability of qualified workers; recruits and screens applicants for jobs; helps select qualified employees; plans and presents appropriate orientation, training, and development for each employee; and administers employee benefit programs.
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is the application of hypnotic techniques in such a way as to bring about therapeutic changes. An external influence, the therapist, assists in activating the inner resources of a person in order to achieve realistic goals. It can be used to help with phobias, thoughts and feelings and habits. It involves two main elements. Relaxation – an altered state of consciousness, where the conscious mind is less active and the subconscious mind is more dominant. This state of mind is distinguishably different from alertness or ordinary sleep and is brought on by repetitive verbal rituals, known as the induction procedure. Suggestion - the implanting of selective thinking to change beliefs, practices and conditions in the mind at the unconscious level.
Life Coaching
Life coaching is a professional service providing clients with feedback, insights and guidance from an outside vantage point. Coaching is similar to the practice of counselling, but the major difference is that coaching is an on-going collaborative partnership built on taking action. People hire a coach when they are making a career transition, starting a new business, ending a relationship, feeling dissatisfied, re-evaluating life choices or simply looking for personal and professional breakthroughs.
Smoking Cessation
Through a form of gentle, safe, pleasurable hypnosis and detailed questionnaire, you can become a non smoker. In just over one hour the cravings are gone, replaced with new positive responses. Each session is tailor-made and personalised to the client for optimum impact.
Solihull Approach
The Solihull Approach is an integrated model of working, open learning resource packs and training programme for care professionals working with families, babies, children and young people who are affected by emotional and behavioural difficulties. It is an early intervention model and is also used for prevention and group work. The model incorporates three concepts of containment, reciprocity and behaviour management.
T.U.P.E.
T.U.P.E. stands for Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations. These protect people when their employer changes such as when a company is taken over or a public service is contracted out.
Workplace Mediation
Workplace Mediation is a structured process whereby an impartial mediator facilitates communication between those in dispute in order for them to come up with mutually agreed solutions on how to improve their working relationship in the future. It is beneficial to both employees and employer in avoiding litigation costs and grievance procedures.
