Zoe Alford
Zoe Alford
B.A., PGCert.Couns (Supervision), MCouns. (1st Cl)
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Introduction
Zoe Alford was a confirmed PhD candidate at the University of Waikato in 2013/14. She has now turned her attention to other projects while continuing in private practice as a counsellor and supervisor.
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January 2003 - January 2015
Publications
Publications (4)
The term cultural supervision has been coined as part of a strategy that implicates supervision in
the support and development of culturally appropriate therapeutic practice. In Aotearoa New
Zealand particular focus has been given to supervision where the client is Māori and the
practitioner is a member of the dominant Pākehā culture particularly,...
In response to the challenges of academic work when studying for Masters of Counselling degrees at a distance from the university while living in a geographically isolated community in Aotearoa New Zealand, Kandyce Bevan, Nicola Carroll and I came together to work in a peer professional learning group. This thesis tells the stories of how we worked...
Counsellors are required to engage in supervision in order to reflect on, reflexively review, and extend their practice. Supervision, then, might be understood as a partnership in which the focus of practitioners and supervisors is on ethical and effective practice with all clients. In Aotearoa/New Zealand, there has recently been interest in the i...
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Question (1)
Are there any Foucault scholars out there? I'm hoping someone can explain what the word "discible" means. Foucault uses this word in the following sentence: "The Visible was neither Dicible nor Discible"(Birth of the Clinic, p. 60). The original French reads: "Le Visible n'etait pas Dicible, ni Discible". Dicible seems to mean "speakable" or perhaps "able to be put into words". There is a nuance here I suspect, but can anyone help with the translation of "discible"?
