COUN106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sex Education, Gender Role, Sex Assignment
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Part of your job as a counsellor is to: You will always have more similarities then differences. Now!!: be honest with your own beliefs and limitations. Important due to ageing population and longer life expectancies. In 2007 people aged 65 years and over made up 13% of australia"s population. This proportion is projected to increase to 25% in 2056 and 28% in 2101: helpless, disabled vs. Valuable experience and skills: aim to help client accept incapacities and find alternative ways to accomplish the same goals and needs. Week 11 lecture 11: anxiety prevalent. Focus on understanding the individual and gender diversity. Counselling women: often seek help on behalf of others, most psychological theories invented by white men, reinforce conventional stereotypes. Feminist counselling theory explores the impact of patriarchal social structures on mental health. Taught that counselling is feminine and is to be avoided. This condition occurs approximately once in every 4,500 births.
