Teaching Approaches for Cultivating Hope for Novice Counsellors’ in Training: Using Hope Collages and E-Visual Postcards to Process Difficult Moments

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  • Priya S. Mani

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https://doi.org/10.29173/cjfy30101

Abstract

An underused component of counselling is the cultivation of hope by novice counsellors with diverse marginalized clients (Warner & Baggs, 2023). Maintaining a hopeful attitude is an important catalyst for strengthening the working alliance between client and counsellor (Rogers, 1957). In this paper, reflection of incorporating hope collages (Jevne, 2005; Weiser, 1988) alongside E-Visual Postcards (Fels, 2015) of difficult moments with a client is used to support novice counsellors in nurturing hope. The intent of the teaching exercises is to help students become more attuned to their own feelings of hope and impact on the working alliance when encountering obstacles with diverse marginalized clients.

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2025-01-01

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