... behaviour to possible the situations in their private lives. This stresses the importance for tutors to implement 'active listening' and 'rewarding listening' within the classroom and tutorials. Understanding Counselling Models Person-Centred Counselling The origin of person-centred counselling was in the 1930s and 1940s by Dr Carl Rogers who was an American psychologist and therapist. Mearns and Thorne describe Rogers's theories and ideas. "It is the client who knows what is hurting and in the final analysis it is the client who knows how to move forwards.....the counsellor's task is to enable the client to make contact with his own inner resources rather than to guide, advise or in some other way influence the direction the client should take......thus emphasising the central importance of the client's phenomenological world." (Mearns & Thorne, 1988, Pg1) It is important in this type of counselling that the counsellor establishes a safe growth environment for the client. By building a trusting relationship ...

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