Supporting your Learning Experience
Once you have put in place the structures to manage your studying, you can focus upon the day-to-day practicalities of mastering the learning process. These are similar for all students, and include learning to read effectively, make notes on a variety of sources and make connections between aspects of your course. Underpinning all this work will be the support systems that you put in place as your course progresses. These aspects of working as a distance and open learner will be essential to your success.
Abstract Current research paradigms are outlined and appraised to enable counsellors to see more clearly the practical relevance of counselling research. The standpoint taken is that although it is possible to criticise current research paradigms on a number of grounds, practitioners who know their own biases and the limitations of these paradigms can successfully experiment with interventions suggested by research in their own practice. An example is presented from the research on paralinguistic variables in client-centred therapy.