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The new edition of this popular text continues to offer a comprehensive introduction to the diverse field of people skills. Thoroughly updated, it boasts six new chapters with relevance to a wide range of occupations and environments. This book is an essential companion to all students, practitioners and managers across the helping professions.
Effective interviewing skills are crucial for those working within the human service industries. This book outlines essential advice and strategies, and offers helpful leaning aids, thus providing developing professionals throughout counselling, social work and psychotherapy with a valuable resource for conducting a successful interview.
Comprehensive, easy-to-read introduction to personal counselling. Each skills chapter includes demonstration examples of suitable client statements and counsellor responses, followed by practice examples and student assignment examples.
This book, written clearly in user friendly language, takes the reader step by step through a range of skills to help them become a better listener, communicator and helper in their everyday lives, progressing from inviting the person to talk to ending a helping conversation. Using plenty of examples, tips, exercises and sample conversations, the authors show how the skills described can be easily learned and can fit comfortably into everyday life. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in improving their communication and helping skills as well as those students taking introductory courses in counselling and counselling skills.
Theory and Approaches in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Featuring contributions from leading international figures in the person-centred world, this landmark volume provides a comprehensive, in-depth and cutting-edge overview of the field. The Handbook describes the underlying principles, theory and concepts of the approach in a coherent and clearly structured way, and closely relates these ideas to therapeutic practice and research. With its numerous case vignettes and extensive references, it is set to become the key text on person-centred therapy for students and practitioners the world over.
The first edition of this book explored the key assumptions, main theoretical ideas and principles of practice behind psychodynamic counselling. With an updated look at evidence-based practice, supervision and the different stages of counselling, this continues to be a key introductory text for counsellors or psychotherapists from all disciplines.
Existential Perspectives on Human Issues offers students, teachers and practitioners alike a definitive handbook for the practice of existential psychotherapy. For the first time leading figures from the existential field have been brought together to discuss a wide range of issues fundamental to human existence and consequently therapeutic work with clients.
Since its beginnings in the 1950s, the person-centred approach to therapy has developed in many ways. In this important text, Campbell Purton introduces the 'focusing' approach of Eugene Gendlin. The book discussed Gendlin's theoretical innovations and their implications for clinical practice. It throws light on the relationship between the various schools of therapy, and on the relationship between therapy and such areas as ethics and spirituality. It will be essential reading for students and practioners of person-centred therapy.
In this essential text, the highly regarded Temenos team present an introduction to the person-centred approach for the Twenty-first-century. Giving a broad and unbiased account, they illustrate how the approach has developed since the death of Carl Rogers and explore how the person-centred philosophy can be an effective working model for both counselling and psychotherapy and for understanding, living and working in a complex contemporary world.
Client Groups, Issues and Settings
This solution-focused guide shows how to provide effective counselling with clients who are physically ill. Combining theory, real life examples and evidence-based approaches, the authors draw on their own experience to offer invaluable advice on highly complex and sensitive issues. This book gives tried-and-tested advice for all busy counsellors.
Therapy via the internet is a developing field for counsellors. This accessible guide focuses on technological and therapeutic aspects of online work, relevant across all counselling approaches. With practical step-by-step exercises and jargon-free advice, this is an indispensable tool for all practitioners and trainees planning to work online.
The role of stress in the development of certain illnesses is increasingly being recognized. As a result there is a growing need to find effective psychological treatments to address this factor. This timely book looks at psychosomatics and psychosomatic medicine. It gives clinical descriptions of the main psychosomatic disorders and reviews psychotherapeutic approaches to treatment. Clearly set out and accessibly written, it will be essential reading for qualified and trainee counsellors, psychotherapists, clinical psychologists and psychiatrists as well as physicians.
The first edition of this popular book won praise for successfully exploring the inner world of contemporary adolescence. The new edition now also examines issues including self-harm, depression and body image disturbance. Drawing on a flexible psychodynamic approach, it gives evidence-based guidance for both experienced practitioners and students.
This book presents students and experienced practitioners alike with an accessible guide on the complex dynamics of the couple relationship. Combining the theoretical grounding of various psychodynamic fields of thought with vivid case studies, it advises on how to address issues such as domestic violence, affairs and the step-family system.
Building on the success of Working with the Elderly and their Carers, this new edition pursues an in depth understanding of therapy with older people. A wide range of clinical material and 3 new chapters draw on developments in psychodynamic theory and the author’s experience to offer valuable insights for trainees and experienced practitioners
Informative and insightful, this book explores the nature of self-injury and the experience of those who injure themselves. Covering psychological and physical aspects, the text draws on research, theory and the authors’ clinical experience to present a unifying model for practice. This is an essential resource for all health care professionals.
Difference and Diversity in Counselling
Should the therapeutic process adapt to suit race and ethnic diversity? This book examines issues that are specific to counselling people of African and Caribbean heritage. Exploring the hurt of racism and inherited effects of slavery, it provides ‘therapeutic tasks’ to offer practical advice for all students, trainees and practitioners.
Psychodynamic counselling is rooted in the psychoanalytic tradition with its rich understanding of the functioning of the human psyche and the stages of human development. As contemporary society changes economically, politically and culturally, however, counselling faces multiple new challenges in addressing diversity and difference. The contributors to this important and innovative text address this need, illustrating their theoretical points with vivid case study material to show how the resources of the psychoanalytic tradition can be deployed to meet the particular needs of diverse client groups.
Research Methods for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Speedy provides a necessary introduction to the purposes, possibilities and processes of narrative research methods in therapy practices. Merging social science and arts-based research methods, makes this book ideal for therapy students and practitioners, as well as those providing counselling in other related professional areas.
Assessment in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Whilst assessment has long been central to the counselling process, with the recent moves towards evidence-based practice and increased regulation it is taking an increasingly pivotal role in service provision. This important new text helps clarify the nature and purpose of assessment in counselling. It explores the theoretical underpinnings of assessment across the core therapeutic schools and addresses critical differences in the meanings and importance deferred to it. It will be invaluable reading for all trainees as well as for practitioners wishing to gain a broad insight into therapeutic practice across the boundaries of the many therapeutic models.
