This accessible introduction fills a gap for a textbook that can be used across all applications of Transactional Analysis - from counselling & psychotherapy to coaching. The expert authors make difficult TA concepts understandable for undergraduates and postgraduates alike.
Presents demonstrations of Evidence-Based Practice in Psychology (EBPP) with diverse clientele, focusing on multiple dimensions and intersections of identity and diversity. This title integrates research and clinical expertise that helps readers to examine, conceptualize and treat the multiple ways individuals identify themselves.
The issue of 'recovery' has been increasingly prioritized by policymakers. This title examines what recovery, addiction and dependence really mean, to the professional involved in rehabilitation and to each individual client, and how 'coerced treatment' fails to take account of recovery as a long-term and ongoing process.
Offers a practical introduction to the application of the Gestalt approach at each stage of the therapeutic process. Taking the reader through these stages, this book focuses on skills which arise out of Gestalt theory as well as those invoked by the therapeutic relationship.
Offers an exploration of the connections between mental illness and trauma. This title illustrates how different psychotherapy approaches can lead to reduced symptomatology, decreased psychological distress, and improved functioning in individuals living with SMIs.
Presents an introduction for those using counselling skills in the course of their work. This book covers topics such as: starting and structuring the helping process; active listening; offering challenges and feedback; facilitating problem-solving; coaching, demonstrating and rehearsing; and strategies for changing thinking.
Describes a specifically psychodynamic approach to sexual dysfunction. This book reviews the range and nature of sexual difficulties, and evaluates the relevance of psychodynamic theory and interventions to the understanding, assessment and treatment of sexual problems. It is illustrated with case study material.
Introducing key psychodynamic theory, concepts and techniques, this text examines the challenges and opportunities of counselling adolescents and children. The book explores a wide variety of settings and contexts, from schools to community projects and mental health services. It is an invaluable guide for counsellors and therapists at all levels.
Offers a practical introduction to the application of the Gestalt approach at each stage of the therapeutic process. Taking the reader through these stages, this book focuses on skills which arise out of Gestalt theory as well as those invoked by the therapeutic relationship.
Collaborative Divorce is an interdisciplinary, team approach to dispute resolution in which the parties, their lawyers, and the collaborative team commit to work cooperatively to reach a divorce settlement. This book presents an overview of the models of collaborative divorce practice.
Includes perspectives on the impact of race, culture, and language in therapy. This book discusses topics such as: issues concerning race and power; the impact culture has on communication; how dominant theories influence counseling; and, the concept of mixed-identity therapeutic relationships.
Counselling psychology as a psychological speciality facilitates personal and interpersonal functioning across the life span with a focus on emotional, social, vocational, educational, health-related, developmental, and organisational concerns. This book focuses on research in this field from around the world.
Taking the reader through the counselling process, this book provides advice on how to structure and manage therapeutic work. It describes various aspects of the therapeutic relationship, and demonstrates how the skills and attitudes of the person-centred practitioner are used effectively in a range of counsellor-client interactions.
This book is a primer of essential helping skills for students and professionals in the helping professions. It contains a brief chapter on theory and then covers the core skills, standard interventions, nature of relationships, developing rapport, as well as important issues regarding assessment and formulating a diagnosis.
This approachable text provides a brilliantly clear account of the major psychodynamic theories and their development. Vivid pen portraits and rich case examples show how key concepts first originated and apply in practice today. A fascinating overview for trainees and practitioners.
It is often hard to know what to talk about with a bereaved person after you've offered your condolences, and many avoid talking about the deceased for fear of upsetting the bereaved relative. This book offers a practical framework for conversing with bereaved people, either with individuals or in a group setting.
Argues that philosophically, counselling can be regarded as prayer, particularly when working at relational depth. This book says that prayer plays an important part in maintaining many mainstream counsellors' well-being and, with caution and considered ethical awareness, prayer can be integrated into counselling when working with people of faith.
Trauma can result from a range of experiences from bullying to witnessing violence to living through war. This book explores variables affecting the impact of trauma such as different developmental stages, gender, the reactions of friends and parents, the child's personality, and their caring environment.
Developing Person-Centred Counselling, Second Edition is designed to help counsellors improve their skills within the person-centred approach. With chapters on growth and transference, the book covers the subjects which are central to person-centred training. The book is supported by case material and examples from practice.
This practical text supports the learning and application of communication and basic counselling and enhances the value of even the shortest exchange by showing how essential skills of attention, reflective listening and positive use of communication skills, support a helping and respectful approach to clients.
Serves as a guide to using imagery in one-to-one therapeutic work with clients. Using examples, this book shows how the techniques involved can be integrated into everyday practice. It describes the different processes of using guided imagery and working from a script and shows how drawing can be used to augment imagery work.
Explores the experience of becoming and being a counsellor, and engaging in the therapeutic process. This book enters the internal, subjective world of counselling through its characters: students, counsellors, clients, supervisors and the author himself. It also provides personal development exercises.
Helps professionals to apply practical counselling principles to healthcare situations in a South African context. This book outlines principles of communication useful in interactions between the health professional and the client. It also describes basic generic principles of counselling.
Includes case examples from a range of mental health care settings. This title is embedded with pedagogy, including worksheets, sample questions and diagrams. It highlights the challenges, strengths and weaknesses of each approach. It focuses on the practical application of therapeutic models.
Using real cases, narratives, and biographical material, this title contains the firsthand telling of cultural stories (that encompass race, ethnicity, class, gender, and life cycle) of African American, Asian, Hispanic/Latino, and Native American Indian people's experiences of mental health services.
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.
Examining the historical roots, evaluations, and lasting effects of Existential, Gestalt, Behavior, Cognitive, Reality, Feminist, Family, Narrative, and Solution-Focused Therapy and much more, Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Case Approach, 3e equips students with the history and application necessary to bring theory to life.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is an effective goal-focused therapeutic approach that involves working in partnership with the client, and empowers them by focusing on their strengths and achievements, the present and future, rather than examining their inner world and past events. This title explains the basic steps involved in the SFBT.
The fourth book in the authoritative BACP Legal Resources for Counsellors and Psychotherapists series is an essential reference for practitioners working across a range of practice settings. It provides practical examples and applications of the law as it varies across counselling contexts.
Offers a practical skills-based introduction to relationship counselling. This title covers couple counselling for parents, whole-family counselling and counselling for children and young people with regard to their relationships with siblings, peers and parents.
This handbook brings together the experiences and perspectives of people working with trauma in a wide range of fields, and explores the innovative ways in which they each seek to overcome the problems they face, while relating this to new thinking that is altering our understanding of a complex medical and social issue.
This product is an enhanced version of the bestselling Encyclopedia of Counseling, Third Edition test prep book and includes access to an interactive quiz generator that can be used for additional review. It is only available for purchase by qualified adopters and their students.
Addresses crisis mental health by examining three major crises/disasters: Hurricane Katrina, Virginia Tech, and September 11. This book highlights an overview of the disaster response field by focusing on theoretical perspectives which have provided a framework for culturally and ecologically appropriate interventions.
A presentation of the widely used Integrated Developmental Model of Supervision (IDM). It integrates theory and research from numerous perspectives including learning, cognition, and emotion as well as a treatment of research directly addressing the supervision process.
Supervision is a valuable protected space for personal and professional development that has the potential to contribute greatly to positive transformative change. This book explores what is meant by transformative supervision and how it can be undertaken. It examines the key factors that contribute to the transformative function.
This pioneering book seeks to change this. Counselling skills help prevent making mistakes, they tell therapists what they can and cannot do. In turn, they then guide the patient towards taking more responsibility for their life and to discover their own 'healer within' to speed recovery.
This long-awaited third edition updates the key textbook on the SAGE Counselling and Psychotherapy list: the most comprehensive, fully inclusive, state of the art overview of contemporary counselling and psychotherapy that we publish for trainee and practising counsellors, counselling psychologists and psychotherapists.
A guide to methods used in studying the outcomes and processes of therapy. Introducing a range of methodologies which are used internationally, it describes different research designs and illustrates them through examples of actual studies. It demonstrates the usefulness of the research in therapeutic practice.
Comprising succinct contributions, this Handbook describes not only the traditional skills and theoretical models, but also the most common client concerns brought to therapy, and the particular skills required for different practice settings and client groups.
Shows how to develop an individual approach to integrating theories and methods from various psychotherapies. Offering the strategies for integration rather than a therapeutic model, this book focuses on the integrative framework, and procedural strategies, extending discussion of the individual practitioner as integrator.
Offers an introduction to the theory and practice of counselling and therapy. This book includes information on topics such as: Transactional analysis; The use of natural environment in counselling; The contribution of arts-based approaches; and, Integrating theory into practice.
Examines ethnic minority cultural and traditional healing in relation to counselling and psychotherapy. This book highlights the challenges and transformations within the field of multicultural counselling and psychotherapy by integrating debates and issues of traditional healing with contemporary practice.
Outlines the abilities needed for counselling others - listening carefully, self-awareness, instillation of hope, being reliable and trustworthy, and a capacity to engage with emotion - and suggests how these everyday skills may be used to help others to help themselves.
Covers caring for the terminally ill and "actual" bereavement. Case studies used in the text include examples from cancer, AIDS, suicide, murder, fatal accidents and discuss the appropriate counselling approaches. General problems counsellors may face are also discussed.
This pioneering book seeks to change this. Counselling skills help prevent making mistakes, they tell therapists what they can and cannot do. In turn, they then guide the patient towards taking more responsibility for their life and to discover their own 'healer within' to speed recovery.
Provides an introduction to the practical basics of counselling. Starting with a guide to the qualities, knowledge and skills required to become a 'listening helper', this book provides a framework for a counselling session, helping you to manage the process. It illustrates how you can create a positive relationship between listener and speaker.
Provides an integrative model of counselling skills that can be used in the pastoral context found in church or faith communities. This work also covers three key areas of specific concern in church and faith community contexts: conflicts with beliefs and values; conflicts of power and sexuality; and conflicts with guilt, shame and forgiveness.
The latest edition of this popular text has been updated to reflect research, changes and developments in counselling. Written by one of the country's most experienced counselling authors, this text combines theory and practice to give students a full understanding of the complexities of counselling.
Deals with the doctor-patient relationship. This book is about certain intrinsic counselling skills, those deployed in the essential task of harmonizing professional and interpersonal aspects of the clinical transaction. It is meant for doctors and medical students, post-registration vocational trainees, and medical educators in medical schools.
Suitable for counselor educators, counselor supervisor practitioners, and supervisors-in-training in a variety of educational and mental health settings. This book examines primary supervision theories and their application to the issues that counselor supervisors will encounter.
A comprehensive and practical manual which combines a hands-on approach with the application of recent research. Themes discussed include: the reactions of helping agencies; the effect of violence upon children; the role of alcohol; and helping programmes for violent men.
Counselling is a diverse activity and there are an increasing number of people who find themselves using counselling skills, not least those in the caring professions. There is a great deal of scope in using counselling skills to promote health in the everyday encounters that nurses have with their patients.
Encourages various palliative care professionals to work holistically, viewing themselves and their relationships with patients as significant therapeutic resources in their own right. This book discusses the place of counselling skills using an integrative biopsychosocial model of family systems medicine.
It is sobering to think that this book, ground-breaking in 1996, still stands practically alone in looking at class, politics and counselling. This book has received unequivocally enthusiastic reviews in a wide range of journals. Many counsellor-educators have put it on their 'essential reading' list. Put it on yours now.
Addresses the important professional considerations when working with clients who are suicidal. This book explores the 'bigger picture', including legal and ethical considerations and organisational policy and procedures. It is suitable for counsellors, psychotherapists, and professionals who use counselling skills when supporting suicidal people.
Shows how the skills which underpin counselling practice are directly transferable to effective social work practice. This book discusses skills with reference to social work knowledge and values illustrating how, when used competently, contextually and sensitively they can appropriately underpin good social work practice.
This revised and expanded edition of the text provides a guide for counsellors and those using counselling skills in other professions. The contributors, all experienced practitioners, explore the major arenas and setting in which counselling is practised.
How do I set up a coaching business? How do I find clients? How do I market myself successfully? This book gives practical help based on many years of successful experience. It explains step by step how to build a successful new coaching business using an innovative method of selling with integrity.
An exploration of the people and practices involved in the provision of counselling in the workplace. This book addresses questions such as: Why do employees need to be counselled in the workplace? Why is counselling in this context so different from counselling in other environments? and, Why are some workplace counsellors hard to manage?
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.
An introduction to the philosophy, theory and practice of the person-centred approach. Focusing on the psychological underpinnings of the approach, this book describes the theory of personality on which it is based and the nature of the therapeutic which is characterised by: unconditional positive regard, empathy, and congruence.
Focusing on fictional child and adolescent characters experiencing grief, this book uses tales and the Harry Potter books to help grieving children and adolescents. It includes number of activities, discussion questions, and games that could be used with grieving children and adolescents, based on the fictional characters in these books.
Completely updated, the most widely used and critically acclaimed text on multicultural counseling, Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice, Fifth Edition offers students and professionals essential and thought-provoking material on the theory, research, and practice of multicultural counseling.
This reader draws together key material which has been published in "Counselling", the journal of the British Association for Counselling, over the last few years. It discusses such topics as: therapeutic approaches; contexts and practice; and research and future trends.
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.
Why are reflection and supervision important for coaches? How might increased self awareness improve competence? This practical book helps coaches to improve their practice through reflection and professional support in their work. It explains how these developments can be made utilising a range of tried and tested frameworks.
With extensive case studies that translate person-centred theory into effective practice, this title enables therapists to work successfully with clients presenting a variety of different problems including: Post Traumatic Stress; Depression; Panic and Anxiety; Drug and Alcohol Issues; Eating difficulties; Self harm; and, Childhood Sexual Abuse.
Offers students an overview of the counseling profession. Structured around the CACREP core curriculum areas, this title helps students gain an understanding of the professional identity of the counselor; examine the history and current trends of the profession.
Recognizes that even those treatment providers who understand the importance of the familial context of addiction are often stymied by the variety of family treatment theories and their often imperfect fit for cases of addiction. This book provides an integrated model for assessment and treatment.
Living with serious illness has profound effects not only on patients themselves but also on their families. This fully updated edition by a recognized expert focuses on the individual in context, showing how relationships can alleviate suffering and maximise the chances of healing. A practical guide to those working with illness.
Shows how social networks, whether they be friends, colleagues or family, can provide an important source of support following sudden bereavement. This book covers issues such as common reactions to grief, problems that can arise within families as a result, when to involve professional assistance, and how to help bereaved children.
Herbert Goldenberg (California State U., Los Angeles) and Irene Goldenberg (U. of California, Los Angeles) offer instruction in working with families with varying backgrounds, circumstances, needs, and problems. Case studies, summaries, and specific guidelines are featured. The book focuses on syste
Helps counsellors and professional helpers give sensitive and appropriate support to clients from cultures other than their own. This title illustrates the process of transcultural counselling using the contrasting case studies of 4 different clients, and highlights the impact of cultural issues at individual, community and global levels.
Based on solution focused practice principles, this book illustrates communication skills and playful techniques for working with children and young people, regardless of any health, learning or development need. It is of interest to practitioners working with children and young people, including social workers, youth workers, teachers and nurses.
This second volume is a unique collection of articles which convey the breadth and variety of counselling theory and practice, and brings together many of the key papers to have been published in Counselling, the journal the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy over the past decade. Hardcover 0761964193.
Offers a practical introduction to the principles and practices required for successful counselling, to show that working with young people can be both challenging and effective. The book covers: how to understand the young client as a person; the pro-active approach of working with young people; and, the counselling skills and strategies needed.
Developing the ideas of the textbook "Counselling: The Skills of Problem-Solving", this new edition is completely revised and introduces: a solution-focused model; material on cross-cultural counselling, ethics, self-evaluation, professionalism, advocacy and mediation and stress supervision; examples; and exercises.
This new edition reflects the growing use of short term therapy across a variety of settings. Packed with new material on key issues, the book explores the therapeutic relation, the length of therapy and the evidence base for various forms of therapy. This is key reading for anyone wishing to incorporate a psychodynamic element in their work.
This successful title has been updated with new entries to reflect the changes within the counselling profession over the last few years. Maintaining the popular alphabetical style of the previous editions, the authors have also kept the accessible writing style, making this handbook a must-have for every practising counsellor!
In the light of the current professionalization of counselling, this book examines the hypothesis that counselling theory and practice is altered by the specific organisational context in which it takes place. It also argues that counselling can be a sophisticated activity which is not just the poor neighbour of psychotherapy.
John McLeod's book is the only comprehensive guide to the range of qualitative methods used in counselling and psychotherapy. This timely new edition incorporates the last decade of developments in qualitative research methods with eight new chapters, new case studies and enchanced pedagogy throughout.
Offers a model which makes connections between theory and practice. This book offers a theoretical 'compass' for recognising the wide variability in reaction to loss and the 'Adult Attitude to Grief' scale, a tool for 'mapping' individual grief and its change over time, providing an individual grief profile.
This text examines the theoretical basis of role play and the range of approaches involved. It enables the reader to develop: a strategy for conducting valid role plays; an idea of the questions to be asked when planning a role play; and an understanding of the issues that must be addressed.
A guide for counselors and therapists working with people who are lesbian, gay or bisexual. It provides an overview of lesbian, gay and bisexual psychology, and examines some of the differences between lesbians, gays and bisexuals, and heterosexuals. It proposes a model of gay affirmative therapy.
Recognizing that we all experience bereavement differently, this book introduces theory and skills which can be used in various contexts to address a wide range of needs. It explains the theoretical background to attachment and loss and the core skills needed to support people who have been bereaved.
This book will become a treasured purchase for anyone looking for a complete introduction to the theory and practice of counselling and psychotherapy. Richard Nelson-Jones is a bestselling author and his accessible writing style has become hugely popular with students and practitioners.
Gives students an overview of eleven group theories - illustrating throughout how to put these theories into practice. Students learn about group process, applications to the stages of a group, and how to apply group counseling to multicultural, ethical, school, and time-limited contexts.
A guide to common challenges which arise in daily counselling practice. It describes a range of strategies with an aim of helping practitioners and trainees through the 'sticky' moments and offer reassurance that 'you are not alone' in facing these dilemmas. It explores what to do when you feel stuck and fail to help the client move forward.
Although designed for counsellors of heroin and other drug users, this title should prove accessible to doctors, nurses, social workers and clinical psychologists as well. It assesses and informs some of the challenges common to establishing and running any support group.
Designed for mental health professionals, educators, and the parent/caregiver, this book provides specific ideas and techniques to work with children in various areas of complicated grief. It presents words and methods to help initiate discussions of these delicate topics.
Contains the training materials necessary for the student/peer educator who will be facilitating the men's program. This title includes all of the program scripts and handouts, as well as advice for running the program. It covers methods for helping survivors and ways to prevent rape, including bystander interventions.
Helps professional counsellors to identify and develop the specific competencies necessary to work effectively with an increasingly diverse population, covering important topics such as immigration, size, social class, language, disability, and sexual orientation.
Offers fun, creative and innovative ideas for street games and activities to help young people explore personal, social and emotional issues. This book can be used time and again by detached and outreach youth workers, youth offending teams, and those working with young people who need ideas for fun and exciting games and activities.
This book is for students on basic introduction to counselling courses from around 20 to 100 hours duration. In his highly acclaimed approachable style, Sanders covers all relevant areas of training at this level - theory, personal development and building helping skills.
Offers an overview of the counseling profession that exposes you to real challenges faced by experienced practitioners. This title covers what counseling is, as well as its history, theoretical orientations, applications, and professional issues. It examines the day-to-day realities of being a counselor.
Offers an integrative relational model of supervision drawing on developmental theory that is applicable to fields such as psychotherapy and counselling. This book contains theoretical material and examples of in vivo supervision. It presents material on ethical decision making and on anti-oppressive practice in training organisations.