Facilitating psychological skills: technique is not enough

Discusses the difficulties of ensuring quality teaching of human or psychological skills. To teach manual skills effectively educators must possess those skills themselves. However, psychological skills are different – they are slippery concepts and very difficult to measure. With the proliferation of various techniques and games involved in their teaching there is a great danger of ineffective and, therefore,low quality training. Concludes that to ensure effectiveness teachers must be honest and well integrated; they must be seen to be genuine with congruent personalities and accept the ongoing challenge of self‐awareness.