Training Pastoral Counsellors for HIV/AIDS Care and Support in South Africa: Perspectives from Post Foundationalism, Contextual and Narrative Therapy

This article describes part of a doctoral study that developed a training programme for pastoral counselors for assisting persons infected with and affected by HIV and AIDS. The Intervention and Research Intervention Research Model (IRM) as developed by Rothman and Thomas (in De Vos et al. 2001) was used as the research paradigm and followed the steps of review of pertinent literature that served to inform the development of and implementation of the product (the training programme). This article is thus based on these two steps: firstly the literature that was considered relevant in guiding the development of the training programme, in this instance, post foundationlism, contextual and narrative therapy and secondly, the pilot programme itself which used Muller’s (2003) post foundational framework, to accommodate its refinement and ongoing development as a product