Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure

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Based on the characters and setting of Kenneth Grahame’s “The Wind in the Willows” we find Toad has fallen into a deep depression. We then follow Toad on his journey through counselling with Heron as his Counsellor. Studies have recently found that toad venom may be an effective alternative from the mentioned medication.

He made great use of transactional analysis which is the use of the Child, Parent, and Adult model in us to know how other people work in our lives. This kind of observation is very prolonged that might need long dedication from medical personnel who are studying this medication. These people will be taking their time to take this drug while a facilitator watches them if there are side effects that may occur while taking the medication. This is an ideal book for those thinking about trying counselling as it will give you some idea of what to expect and what it might be like for you. I can not recommend it enough, thoroughly informative and engaging. This is a fantastic book. Well written and easy to understand and follow. The counselling process is very eloquently explained from beginning to end and as Toad learns to understand himself and the world around him I could feel his progress and felt genuine empathy with him when the work got hard.

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Ideal Xmas or Birthday present for counsellors—aspiring or fully trained. Light work with a serious message. Over the course of ten sessions, which correspond to chapters of the book, a very depressed Toad learns how to analyse his own feelings and develop his emotional intelligence using the language and ideas of transactional analysis. He meets his 'rebellious child' and his 'adult' along the way and by the end of the book, Toad is setting out on a completely new adventure - as debonair as he ever was. After taking this medication, they will state how they are feeling after the medication to let the researcher know about its effects.

Through this anthropomorphic parable, de Board takes readers into a realistic, humorous, and humane account of being in psychotherapy. I suspect that Toad would find great pleasure to know that this story of his life, struggles, and recovering is still being read 25 years since its original publication. Counselling for Toads offers an overview of the basics of transactional analysis in practice. In the 25 years since the book was written, transactional analysis has continued to evolve and is now a model of human relations work applied in psychotherapy, counselling, education, and organizational development." - William F. Cornell, MA, TSTA, editor of the Routledge book series, Innovations in Transactional Analysis , and editor of Into TA: A Comprehensive Textbook on Transactional Analysis. Toad has regular sessions with Heron, the counsellor, who uses the therapeutic methods of a type of therapy called transactional analysis to help Toad to analyse his own feelings and develop his emotional intelligence and find his new path in life. Toad meets his inner “rebellious child” and his “adult self” during the ten sessions that make up the chapters of this book. I always wanted to please them [his parents]. I'm not sure if I ever succeeded, but I remember clearly wanting them to be pleased and proud of me. . . . Perhaps that is why I developed a tendency to show off. They never seemed pleased or impressed with what I did, so I indulged in extravagant and stupid behavior to try and gain their attention. Davis stated that it might from the psychedelic experiences that people have in their mental states after taking this medication. Heron has also used other counselling methods such as person-centred, psychodynamic, and existential and how each are used in counselling with Toad.

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At some point in our lives, we all face challenges that can feel overwhelming and difficult to overcome. Toad', the famous character in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows is in a very depressed state and his good friends Rat, Mole and Badger, are 'worried that he might do something silly'... Heron, the counsellor, uses the language and ideas of transactional analysis as his counselling method. Through the dialogues which make up the ten sessions, or chapters of the book, Toad learns how to analyse his own feelings and develop his emotional intelligence. He meets his 'rebellious child' and his 'adult' along the way, and by the end of the book, as debonair as ever he was, is setting out on a completely new adventure. As readers learn about Toad, so they can learn about themselves and be encouraged to take the path of psychological growth and development.

This kind of book can give you access to knowledge about counselling and how this kind of process can help you be the best version of yourself. The Counselling For Toads book is for people who are considering counselling but are hesitant in going through this kind of plan which this kind of book can help encourage you with. The psychoactive effects of this medication can take hours which the personnel will be observing in those hours.This is a very inspiring book. Any kind of reader can understand the contents of this book where the simple language is used throughout the book.

Davis is a personnel in the John Hopkins Medicine that is still working on this medication but no one knowing how long the study will take. Counselling for Toads is not only a book that can help you find a solution for your depression but there have been studies that are indicating that some part of toads is great in treating depression. Best-selling author, Robert de Board says: 'Toad's experiences are based on my own experiences of counselling people over a period of twenty years. Counselling for Toads is really an amalgamation of the many counselling sessions I have held and contains a distillation of the truths I have learnt from practice.'Not only an instructive handbook for those in any way contemplating counselling... it is warmly funny and respectful of the spirit of Grahame's novel. If he had written his own sequel he might have ended it like this one." - Jan Mark, Times Educational Supplement Participants of the study where guided in taking this medication and they were monitored by a facilitator. This led to Davis to research on this medication with people from the Western provinces in the United States. I would recommend this book to any counsellor or counselling student. Or indeed anyone going through counselling themselves.