ACAP Educator Profile Educator - Mr Gerard De Silva

Name: Mr Gerard De Silva

Qualifications

  • BA ( Griffith ), Dip Ed ( UQ ), M.Soc.Sc ( Counselling ).

Memberships/Professional Affiliations

  • SCAPE ( Clinical ), QAFT ( Clinical ), PACFA Reg.

Research Interests

  • Counselling Skills and the structure of the interview; CBT and Integrative theory; Group Work; Clinical Supervision, Adolescence, Sociology – Postmodernism and Late Capitalism.
  • Anxiety and Depression : change management.

Teaching Areas

Undergraduate and Masters programs

Academic Profile

For twenty - five years, I have taught at various levels. Have written and managed specialist learning programs for adolescents. During the last ten years have increasingly focused on HR and counselling adults, often clients who present from difficult workplace environments; I am engaged in the supervision of businesspeople and health professionals. I maintain a strong academic interest not simply in identifying stress and mental health issues as demanding concerns, but seeing them as evidence of societal and institutional tension. ( See gdescounselling.com.au )   

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