The Beginner's Guide to Counselling & Psychotherapy
- Stephen Palmer - Centre for Stress Management, London, Centre for Coaching, London
Counselling and Psychotherapy (General)
Are you interested in the field of counselling and psychotherapy or just starting out in your training? Trying to get to grips with the many different approaches and decide which are right for you? This book can help!
An ideal introductory text that assumes no prior knowledge, leading authors in the field provide overviews of 26 counselling and psychotherapy approaches in accessible, jargon-free terms. Each approach is discussed using the same framework to enable easy comparison and evaluation, covering:
· Development of the Therapy
· Theory and Basic Concepts
· Practice
· Which Clients Benefit Most?
· Case study
Four further chapters offer an insight into the therapeutic relationship, working with diversity, professional issues, and research, while resources such as suggested reading, discussion issues, appendices of further information and a comprehensive glossary help you consolidate your learning.
So look no further if you want to know the differences between counselling and psychotherapy, compare psychodynamic and psychoanalytic theories, discover how constructivist approaches can be applied in practice, learn about third wave CBT therapies, or just get an general overview of the field; this second edition of a bestseller gives you a whirlwind tour of the breadth, complexity, fascination and problems of the field of counselling and psychotherapy.
Highly appropriate overview of a range of counselling and psychotherapy approaches. Particularly useful resource for compare and contrast tasks and assignments.
Clear outline of the different approaches to counselling provides a useful guideline to students at this early stage in their training as to which modality of counselling they may want to pursue.
This helpful book provides a good reference point for exploring a wide variety of counselling approaches. The case studies, included at the end of each chapter, make it particularly useful in comparing how different approaches look in practice. There are useful lists of further suggested reading incorporated within the text.
The book gives a very good overview over several techniques. As the chapters are relatively short and the same length they fit well into our teaching.
Useful for Year 1 students.
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Excellent resource for those new to counselling
Interesting book, I would recommend it to my students.
