A Sociodynamic Perspective for Counselling

Abstract

In this article the author outlines the main concepts of SocioDynamic Counselling, a constructivist approach to counselling. The development of the approach is briefly outlined, together with reasons for the need to invent a new counselling method. SocioDynamic Counselling is both a philosophy of helping and a set of counselling procedures designed to meet the needs of contemporary help-seekers. The counselling procedures — dialogical communication, life space description, mapping and cultural tools — are presented as important features of this counselling approach. Mention is also made of counselling contexts in which SocioDynamic Counselling is being introduced.