This unique text provides students and practitioners of counselling and psychotherapy with a much-needed guide to working integratively in time-sensitive and healthcare settings. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience, infant studies and human development, this innovative text offers an original framework for identifying key therapeutic metaphors to focus and guide the therapeutic process. It will be invaluable to any practitioner-psychotherapist, counsellor, psychologist, psychiatrist, GP, health or social care professional- who has opportunities to make a professional, therapeutic relationship with clients suffering emotional problems.

Introduction
Psychotherapy in Healthcare: Setting the Scene
Psychotherapy Integration
What Might Help a Person in Distress
Therapeutic Relationship - Core Concept
Who Has Come for Help?
Therapeutic Skills
Therapeutic Process
Ethical Practice

TRICIA SCOTT is a UKCP registered psychotherapist working with individuals, groups, couples and families for more than twenty years in the public and private sectors. She is programe director for the Graduate Diploma/MSc in Psychotherapy and Counselling in Health and Social Care at the University of Surrey, Roehampton, and tutors senior trainees at Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling.