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A practical book for supervisors and supervisees that offers the 3 Step Method as a guide to effective supervision. This second edition has been extensively revised and updated.
A positive bridge-building book, aiming to bring together two helping cultures, those of the person-centred therapist and the psychiatrist, that might otherwise see each other as hostile. With diploma and masters students in sight it should both widen placement possibilities, and encourage therapists to work in multi-disciplinary teams with
Collected together for the first time, articles and chapters from the archive of Nick Totton. Discussing the politics of psychotherapy, his themes include democracy, equality, professionalization and regulation, pluralism, boundaries and ecopsychology. A collection that will make you think.
Why do people hurt each other so much? What use is Psychotherapy? How can mindfulness help? This book suggests that, given our tendencies to treat ourselves and others mindlessly, it may be wise for us to take a step back-even just for a moment - to reflect on how we lead our lives and, in particular, what we do to each other.
An experienced selection of contributors bring a variety of strong views to the reader interested in spirituality and its connection with psychotherapeutic theory and practice.
When people think about Person-Centred Therapy, they have in their mind's eye a particular way of practicing, whereas in reality there is a great deal of variation between therapists. This book presents a snapshot of current practice in all its diversity and singularity.
In an attempt to develop a more effective, respectful and humane mental health system, 23 contributors present a critical, strident, scholarly, personal, moving and ultimately hopeful critique of current psychiatric systems.
Examines the lives of the perpetrators of violence and offers us ways of making sense of acts that seem beyond our comprehension. Explores the roots of violence and distress in personal experience and offers a challenging exploration of the way in which society tries to make sense of madness and badness.
The 'Our Encounters with' series collect together unnmediated, unsanitised narratives by service-users, past service-users and carers. These stories of direct experience will be of benefit to those interested in narrative enquiry, or studying and practising in the field of mental health.
Argues that to take ourselves seriously as social beings, embodied in a real world over which as individuals we have very little influence, is by no means grounds for despair; rather, it encourages modesty, appreciation of good fortune, compassion and recognition of our common humanity.
Examines the seemingly oppositional stances of ecopsychology and counselling and their view of the human predicament. Draws on the work of five great theorists who have puzzled over our relation to the planet, to argue for the relevance of both fields in addressing human distress.
Older people rarely feature in counselling literature, and the very old barely at all. Helen Kewell describes her encounters with some of the old and very old clients with whom she has worked as a counsellor. The common thread is the recognition of the human potential for growth, change and acceptance, regardless of age and ill health.
Listening to children is a skill which parents, teachers, caretakers and school counsellors need to employ every day. This book is about listening in many ways, both to your deepest self and to others. It shows how change in children's behaviour arises when they learn to listen inwardly, sensing what is bodily felt inside them.
Features examples of their work with particular children and young people, aged from two to eighteen. This book describes how much the contributors have learnt from working with children and young people. It highlights the inherent political and systemic aspects of this work.
A lot of what is done in the name of psychotherapy and psychology is driven by neo-liberal forces and motives which are base, shallow and commercial. Using their insider perspective, the authors call for a return to a new Politics of Experience; psychology as the honest and transparent study of situations, not of victims.
A book of wrtings by eight exponents of the Person-Centred Approach to Counselling offered in tribute to the work of Brian Thorne
The aim here is not to attempt any generalisations from individual, personal experience but rather to contribute the author's story to the meagre body of first-person data currently found in suicidology. A second purpose is to use the author's story to draw attention to some serious shortcomings in suicidology.
Extensively updated and retitled in a second edition, this book makes a powerful case for the effectiveness of person-centred approaches to working with people diagnosed with severe 'mental illnesses'. This new edition captures the recent changes in how mental health is conceptualised and understood, and in how mental health care is delivered.
Internationally, there are increasing pressures on person-centered and experiential therapists to justify their practice on empirical grounds.This volume brings together research specialists in the field to review the evidence-base for person-centered and experiential practice, and identify key areas in which the evidence base needs to be developed
A new analysis of the hearing voices experience outside the illness model, resulted in accepting and making sense of voices. This study of 50 stories forms the evidence for this successful new approach to working with voice hearers.
It is widely acknowledged that research is an essential component of the counselling and psychotherapy core curriculum. This title builds confidence by outlining contemporary methodologies in everyday language and also by explaining how to approach, understand and evaluate a range of published research.
Best-selling practical guide, covering the use of counselling skills on the telephone and telephone counselling. This how-to-do-it book looks at research into counselling on the telephone. It presents the story of a real-life agency and considers the impact of technology such as caller identification and freephone numbers on helping agencies.
Suitable for both beginners and higher level students who want a succinct boost to their knowledge of a particular area, this title provides an overview of a particular counselling approach.
A guide to psychodynamic theory and practice. It presents comprehensive descriptions of key counselling approaches in the twenty-first century. It is suitable for students requiring a theory bridge between introductory, intermediate and diploma courses or focused input for comparative essays and integrative theory assignments.
Seeking to promote 'mental health', psychotherapists and counsellors end up abusing their clients and themselves. This work argues that areas of the client-therapist relationship have been neglected, and explores ways in which therapists should engage with and listen to their clients in order to be of help.
Spinelli is one of the leading exponents existential therapy and one of its most brilliant practitioners. With Oliver Sacks-like skill he gives an account of some of the most unforgettable therapeutic encounters that he has experienced, explaining the core of his work and why the existential approach is key to examining the psychological condition.
Although the effects of learning difficulties and the effects of society's treatment of people with learning difficulties are lifelong, counselling and healing are possible. The author argues that even those people who have the most severe learning disabilities can benefit from counselling, and not simply from behaviour management or medication.
For students and practitioners of the person-centred approach to counselling. Investigates and explores issues of race and culture in the person-centred approach.
This 2nd edition once again throws into question taken-for-granted assumptions on which the professionalisation of psychotherapy and counselling are based. With a completely new editorial Introduction and Conclusion, this text is for those engaging with the politics of professionalisation for the first time, or wishing to refresh their thinking.
An addition to the resources available to superviors of various theoretical orientations, examining person-centred approaches to supervision.
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