Welcome to the AIPC Online Article Library. The library includes over 200 articles focusing on counselling, life coping skills and mental health. We invite you to explore our range of articles by clicking the category links above, or using the drop-down menu on your right. To learn more about AIPC, visit www.aipc.edu.au.

Latest Articles

Aetiology of Borderline Personality Disorder

AIPC May 1, 2013 Mental Health Issues, Personality Disorders

The causes of Borderline Personality Disorder are complex and remain uncertain. No current model has been able to integrate all of the available evidence. However, the following have been named as contributing factors to the cause of borderline personality disorder. These include: Genetics; Neurophysiological and neurobiological dysfunctions of emotional regulation and stress; Psychosocial histories of childhood maltreatment and abuse; and Disorganisation of aspects of the affiliative behavioural system, most particularly the attachment system. »

Helping Families Enhance Resilience: Creating supportive contexts

AIPC April 25, 2013 Children & Families, Counselling Theory & Practice, Social Support

This is the third article of a 3-part series titled Helping Families Enhance Resilience. The series explores how you (as a person providing social support) can help families deal with transition by developing effective resilience skills. In the previous two articles we reviewed how supporting a positive self-concept and encouraging effective parenting can help families become more resilient. In this article we explore the focus area of creating supportive contexts. Creating supportive contexts While we have been advocating strategies which consolidate struggling families’ security and shore up members’ sense of belonging and self-esteem, there is another level. Remember Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1968)? Maslow noted that, once people met relatively basic needs, they involved themselves i... »

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Helping Families Enhance Resilience: Encouraging effective parenting

AIPC April 23, 2013 Children & Families, Counselling Theory & Practice, Social Support

This is the second article of a 3-part series titled Helping Families Enhance Resilience. The series explores how you (as a person providing social support) can help families deal with transition by developing effective resilience skills. The series we will address three principal areas of focus, which reinforce one another: Supporting a positive self-concept; Encouraging effective parenting and; Creating supportive contexts. In this article we review how encouraging effective parenting and can assist families in enhancing resilience. »

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Helping Families Enhance Resilience: Supporting a positive self-concept

AIPC April 23, 2013 Children & Families, Counselling Theory & Practice, Social Support

This is the first article of a 3-part series titled Helping Families Enhance Resilience. The series explores how you (as a person providing social support) can help families deal with transition by developing effective resilience skills. The series we will address three principal areas of focus, which reinforce one another: Supporting a positive self-concept; Encouraging effective parenting and; Creating supportive contexts. In this article we review how supporting a positive self-concept can assist families in enhancing resilience. »

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Case Studies

A Case Using Equine-Assisted Therapy

AIPC November 16, 2012

By Leanne Chapman Melody is a 45 year old professional woman who is divorced with no children. Over the last 2 years since her divorce she had been experiencing low levels of confidence along with feelings of dissatisfaction and lack of direction in ...

Positive Psychology and Resilience

AIPC May 28, 2012

By Mrs Toula Gordillo What makes one person ‘bounce back’ following adversity and another person seem to ‘crum...

A Case Using Art Therapy Techniques

AIPC May 14, 2012

By Leanne Chapman Jodie is a 40 year old woman who is married with three children and works full-time in a pro...

Communication

The Opening Micro-skills

AIPC April 23, 2012

“First impressions stick.” “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.” If there is any truth in these two popular notions, then anyone working with a helpee (e.g. a therapy client, a friend, a family member, etc.) within the context o...

The Micro-skills of Non-verbal Language

AIPC March 22, 2012

The American National Science Foundation discovered that we form an impression of someone in just three second...

Skills and Role of the Group Therapist

AIPC April 27, 2011

Group therapy provides a unique and important way for clients to learn about themselves and their relationship...

Counselling Theory & Practice

Treating NPD in the Therapy Room

AIPC May 20, 2013

Benjamin (1996) asserted that therapy interventions for narcissism could be evaluated in terms of five categories of correct response: whether or not the intervention enhanced collaboration, facilitated learning about patterns, blocked maladaptive pa...

The 16PF Personality Questionnaire

AIPC May 15, 2013

The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) is a multiple-choice, comprehensive measure of normal rang...

Social Support Development Skills

AIPC May 3, 2013

The saying that “no man is an island” seems not truer anywhere than in the realm of resilience. Happiness auth...

Life Coping Skills

Social Support Development Skills

AIPC May 3, 2013

The saying that “no man is an island” seems not truer anywhere than in the realm of resilience. Happiness author and business coach Alvah Parker lists ten traits of resilient, happy people. In the very first one she notes that resilient people “are s...

Optimism Skills and Resilience

AIPC February 21, 2013

Do you tend to look on the bright side of things? More importantly for your clinical work (if you are a counse...

Counselling Strategies for Dealing with the Lonely Client

AIPC July 20, 2012

In part 1 of this 2-part series, we explored the symptoms, causes and effects of loneliness. In this continued...