18/04/2008
SCAPE Conference 2008

SAVE THESE DATES for 2008

SCAPE Conference Friday 18 and Saturday 19 April, 2008.

e-SCAPE to Canberra for the annual educators
and trainers’ conference.

The themes of the conference are:

• ethics in counselling and psychotherapy training

• training counsellors and psychotherapists in e-counselling

• restoration and recreation for educators: morning bushwalks, evening tour, and SCAPE dinner and dance

Call for papers is open.

For further information please contact Ione Lewis   ione.lewis@canberra.edu.au 

SCAPE Committee Meeting October 2005

The 12 members of the SCAPE Committee met for a two day meeting in Sydney (22 and 23 October 2005) under the leadership of SCAPE President, Ione Lewis.  The committee discussed a range of issues:

• Professional articles on counselling and psychotherapy edcuation
• SCAPE Research Grant
• 2006 SCAPE Conference in Adelaide
• Good Governance
• SCAPE Vision
• PACFA Training Standards and Course Accreditation
• Membership
• Finances
• Website
• Committee roles and membership

This is a copy of the presentation I did at the PACFA Council meeting in March 2005 on the current issues being grappled with in moving forward with PACFA Course Accreditation. The file can be found here.

Andrew Little

News for members from Christine Chinchen, a SCAPE Committee member, re accessing resources relevant to counselling and psychotherapy educators.

Several websites exist that may be of interest to members.

For an excellent source of information about experiential learning and a critique of David Kolb and his associates go to http://reviewing.co.uk/research/experiential.learning.htm.

The ERIC website carries a huge amount of information on adult learning principles, issues such as gender and other social issues, and a topic by topic index that allows you to investigate specific areas of interest. Just go to http://www.eduref.org/. In your search field indicate you only want full text articles. Otherwise you get abstracts and articles that are only available for payment.

For counselling information from Scott Miller and his co-researchers go to http://www.talkingcure.com. It has some great articles and they challenge some of the sacred cows of counselling and psychotherapy theory and practice.

And for another set of wide ranging article, go to http://www.findarticles.com. Again, this website has a huge number of very interesting articles. A little tip: If you want to search for words together add a + between the words eg counselling + violence.