Counselling and Therapy Techniques
Theory & Practice
- Augustine Meier - Ph.D., certified clinical psychologist, professor Emeritus, Faculty of Human Sciences, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Ontario and Founder and President of the Ottawa Institute for Obj
- Micheline Boivin - M.A., certified clinical psychologist, Psychological Services of the Family, Youth and Children's Program at the Centre for Health and Social Services, Gatineau, Quibec
Integrative and pluralistic in approach, the text covers the key techniques from all the major therapeutic models, placing them in their historical and theoretical contexts. Techniques covered include empathic responding, experiential focusing, Gestalt, metaphors, task-directed imagery, ego state therapy, solution focused therapy, cognitive behvioral therapy, narrative therapy and self-in-relationship therapy. The book:
- presents each technique from the perspective of its underlying theory;
- gives practical instruction on how to deliver each intervention;
- provides extracts from counselling sessions to demonstrate the technique in action.
This book is crucial reading for all trainees on counselling and psychotherapy courses or preparing to use counselling techniques in a range of other professional settings. It is also helpful for professionals who wish to acquire additional skills.
Augustine Meier, certified clinical psychologist, professor Emeritus, Faculty of Human Sciences, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Ontario and Founder and President of the Ottawa Institute for Object Relations Therapy.
Micheline Boivin, certified clinical psychologist, Psychological Services of the Family, Youth and Children's Program at the Centre for Health and Social Services, Gatineau, Québec.
This book has proved particularly useful for teaching skills work on integrative courses at all levels. Techniques are clearly explained and illustrated well enabling students to gain confidence in integrating theory into practice. This book in now included as recommended reading on Certificate and Foundation Degree Year 1 reading lists.
An excellent text providing a useful insight and examples of contempory practice applicable to a range of therapeutic applications and theoretical approaches across the field.
I hope my students will endevour to gain a constructice theoretical and fundermental appreciation of the many examples illustrated in the text.
well done
Meier and Boivin have succeeded in providing a graduate/postgraduate level skills handbook, which will appeal to learners at higher academic levels. Particularly useful for our students are the linking of theory to practice, so that the reader is made fully cognizant of the rationale for specific techniques, rather than learning them as disembodied tools. Diagrams and case illustrations all enhance.
Not appropriate for course level
Comprehesive deatiling of a wide rnage of therapeutic technqiues really helpful for our BA students seeking to extend their technical repetoire for working with clients.
This book is well written but was not suitable for our course due to the substance of the content of the text not being at an appropriate level of complexity for our students. Our students are a mixture of 3rd year and postgraduate students studying a conversion course degree. However, the text would be well aimed at first or second year students gaining entry level to an undergraduate degree and would serve well as an introductory text. For this reason I have forwarded the details to my colleagues in the hope that they will find the text useful in the Social psychology and Health departments for their students.
A useful book for students new to guidance and counselling
