In the COUNSELLING IN ACTION series, this 2nd revised edition outlines the values and ethical principles inherent in counselling. The author covers the major responsibilities which counsellors must be aware of before taking on clients, including: confidentiality, suicidal patients, false or recovered memory, complaints procedure and more.
The Gift of Therapy is the new book from the bestselling author of Love's Executioner. The culmination of master psychiatrist Dr Irvin Yalom's forty-five years' work as a therapist, this book illustrates through real case studies how patients and therapists alike can get the most out of therapy. Presented as eighty-five 'tips' for 'beginner therapists', Yalom shares his own fresh approach and the insights he has gained while treating his patients. Personal, and sometimes provocative, Yalom includes some unorthodox suggestions: - Let the patient matter to you - Acknowledge your errors - Create a new therapy for each patient - Three kinds of therapist self-disclosure - Revealing the therapist's personal life: use caution - Full interpretation of a dream? Forget it! - Freud was not always wrong This is an entertaining, informative and insightful read for both beginner (and experienced) therapists, patients and everyone with an interest in the subject.
Integrative Counselling Skills in Action (Counselling in Action Series)
Sue Culley, Tim Bond
Sue Culley, Tim Bond
Integrative Counselling Skills in Action is a bestselling text, which has been used to train many thousands of people in counselling skills. Now in its Second Edition, this highly practical book provides a step-by-step introduction to the core skills and their use in a wide variety of helping situations. Following the process through its three main stages - beginning, middle and ending - the authors describe the aims of each stage and the particular strategies, which are used to achieve these goals. Frequent extracts of dialogue are given to demonstrate the interactions, which take place between practitioner and client at different stages in the process. This fully up-dated edition also includes many practical features - such as guidelines for good practice, checklists and summaries - as well as new material on: coping with demanding situations, being successful in using counselling skills, and; a new extended case study. Integrative Counselling Skills in Action, Second Edition is an ideal text for use on courses and recommended reading for anyone who uses counselling skills in their work.
Beyond Empathy: A Therapy of Contact-in Relationships
Richard G. Erskine, Jane Moursand, Rebecca Trautmann
The authors of this book focus on the importance of relationship in psychotherapy. Relationships between people form the basis of our daily lives. We require this contact with others, the sense of respect and value it produces amd the relational needs it fulfills. As we face the inevitable traumas of life, large and small, our ability to make full contact with others is often disrupted. As this reduction in contact increases, relational needs go unfulfilled, producing psychological dysfunction. The book offers therapists a methodology for assisting people in rediscovering their ability to maintain genuine, contactful relationships and thus, better psychological health. The authors describe an integrative psychotherapy approach that draws from Rogers' client-centered therapy, Berne's transactional analysis, Perls' Gestalt therapy, Kohut's self psychology, and the work of British object-relations theorists.
Integrative Psychotherapy: The Art and Science of Relationship
Janet Moursund, Richard G. Erskine
Janet Moursund, Richard G. Erskine
This text on relationship-focused integrative psychotherapy an approach that asserts that no human activity can be relationship-free provides an overview for counselors, psychotherapists and other students and practitioners in psychotherapeutic fields. Moursund (University of Oregon) and Erskine (Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy) define the
Person-centred Counselling in Action (Counselling in Action Series)
Dave Mearns, Brian Thorne
An exposition of the theory and practice of the person-centred approach to counselling. Dave Mearns and Brian Thorne draw on a case study to explore the core conditions of empathy, acceptance and congruence, and provide step-by-step accounts of both the counsellor's and the client's experience of the therapeutic relationship. The result is a detailed map for all those who want to develop an understanding of this approach to therapeutic care.
On Becoming a Person
Carl R. Rogers
Carl R. Rogers
Client Centred Therapy
Carl R. Rogers
Carl R. Rogers
Presenting the non-directive and related points of view in counselling and therapy, this book defines the progress recently made in the development of the techniques and basic philosophy of counselling.
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An Introduction to Counselling
John McLeod
John McLeod
This revised and expanded edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of counselling and therapy. It covers the core approaches to counselling, and takes a critical approach to issues of professional practice. New chapters in this edition cover: systematic, feminist, narrative and multicultural approaches to counselling; and a new chapter examines ways of making sense of the actual process of counselling. There are also short, illustrative vignettes or case studies included in this text.
Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Consumer's Guide
Windy Dryden, Colin Feltham
Windy Dryden, Colin Feltham
When people decide they need help for personal or emotional problems, they are faced with a range of psychotherapy and counselling. This book guides readers through the maze of considerations in the choice of therapists and therapies. Based on research into consumers' views, experiences as well as case histories, this book presents helpful definitions and negotiating strategies which should prevent readers being financially exploited, abused or misled. Together the authors have written "Psychotherapy and its Discontents", "Brief Counselling", "Dictionary of Counselling" and "Developing Counsellor Supervision".
This text sets out the major aspects of the psychodynamic technique and shows how these can be applied, creatively and effectively, within counselling. The author follows two clients - a man and a woman - through the psychodynamic counselling process, putting into context ideas such as defence mechanisms, resistance, transference and the psychodynamic understanding of personality development. This second edition takes account of developments in therapeutic practices since the first edition was published. The references and bibliography have also been enlarged.
A comprehensive introduction to the basic psychodynamic themes of trust and dependency, authority and autonomy, and co-operation, this text makes a break from developmental stages, preferring to show the real issues that concern people are present at every point in life. It includes a number of illustrative case studies and this revised edition of the text includes a new chapter on the way the major themes appear at different points in the process of counselling and therapy.
This addition to the "Basic Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy" series provides an authoritative and accessible introduction to psychodynamic counselling and its basic principles. Laurence Spurling examines the basic assumptions underlying the psychodynamic approach, its main theoretical ideas and principles of practice, the techniques associated with it and ways of thinking about the conduct of counselling. Making a distinctive contribution to the literature in this area, he also looks at two major themes, namely the involvement of counsellors working with clients with severe emotional and psychological problems and the influence of organizational settings on counselling work. This book should prove a useful guide for both students and practitioners of counselling or psychotherapy, along with those from other professions, such as teachers and nurses, who are called upon to use counselling skills in their work.
The Freud Reader
Sigmund Freud, Peter Gay (Editor)
Sigmund Freud, Peter Gay (Editor)
Freudian thought permeates many aspects of 20th-century life, and to understand Freud is to explore not only his scientific papers but also his writings on art, literature, politics, religion and culture. Containing 51 texts which span Freud's entire career, from early case histories, through his work on dreams and essays on sexuality, and on to his late writings (including "Civilisation and Its Discontents"), this book brings together his ideas as a scientist, humanist, doctor and philosopher. Introductions to the texts are provided by Peter Gay, who has also written a general introduction which places the man and his work in the context of his time and culture.
On Learning from the Patient
Patrick Casement
Patrick Casement
An Introduction to Object Relations
Lavinia Gomez
Lavinia Gomez
This introduction to object relations presents the work of the main theorists chronologically, enabling the reader to gain a sense of how the subject developed. The different concepts are explained and examined through the eyes of each theorist. A brief biography of each theorist is included.
Bollas integrates the contribution of the British School of Object Relations with the fine texture of problems that have arisen in the author's own clinical practice.
Cognitive-behavioural Counselling in Action (Counselling in Action)
Peter Trower, Andrew Casey, Windy Dryden
Gestalt Counselling in Action provides a clear introduction to the philosophical and theoretical bases of Gestalt therapy and their implications for practice.
This dictionary offers a key to concepts used by transactional analysts which is accessible to those new to the field as well as the more experienced.
Transactional Analysis is growing in popularity as an approach, and this book provides an in-depth, comprehensive model of theory and practice. Aimed at postgraduates and professionals in the field of psychotherapy, Transactional Analysis presents the model, which reflects the theoretical and methodological changes that have been evolving over recent years. It looks at the whole therapeutic relationship, from the establishment of the working alliance, to the termination of therapy and beyond.
Notable for its clarity of concept and simplicity of language, transactional analysis offers an approach that promotes understanding. This text relates the theoretical principles to practice and emphasises the client's progress throughout.
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