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Counselling
The BACP Counselling Reader

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August 2001 | 680 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
`This Second Volume of Counselling is a comprehensive array of articles which convey the breadth and depth of the specialty as it grew during the 1990s. The volume brings together the most important and influential papers published in Counselling, the official journal of the BACP as it then was, over the last decade.

In all, 92 articles have been chosen and scrupulously checked by the editors and, in most cases, the original authors, to fill the 680 pages of the Second Volume. These provide direct access to the main theories, practices and issues which underpin and continue to shape counselling and psychotherapy today. Each article concludes with discussion points to provoke further thought and study. For ease of access these papers are clustered in five sections: counselling approaches; contexts and practice; counselling issues; research: and the future. We can expect the number of research articles to double in the next volume as the way opens up for all practitioners to consider research a crucial part of professional life. The final section on the future has been written by the past Chief Executive of the BACP, and contains insight and wisdom on the challenges facing the profession at the dawn of the new century, with statutory regulation only a few years away.

BACP receives many requests for back copies of the journal, Counselling, upon which this Reader is based, for use in training courses and programmes. The Second Volume of the Reader merits at least one copy in every medical library across the land for use not only in counselling and psychotherapy training, but for all those healthcare workers who use counselling skills in their work' - Maggie Pettifer, past Head of Publishing of BACP for Counselling and Psychotherapy Research

Counselling provides direct access to the main theories, practices and issues which have underpinned and which continue to shape the development of counselling today. Combining accessible research studies with professional and personal reflections, the Reader draws on a diverse and authoritative range of articles to cover the key aspects of counselling, including:

· counselling approaches

· contexts and practice

· counselling issues

· research; and

· future trends

The Reader is ideal for use in training. It provides a wealth of source material and each article concludes with discussion issues to help initiate further thought and study. Students, trainees and practitioners in counselling and other professions will find this essential reading which challenges them to think deeply about counselling as it is practised today, and as it will be in the future.

 
PART ONE: COUNSELLING APPROACHES
 
Introduction to Part One
Colin Feltham
Challenging the Core Theoretical Model
Sue Wheeler
A Sound Foundation for Counsellor Competence
The Case for a Core Theoretical Model

 
Ivan Ellingham
On the Quest for a Person-Centred Paradigm
Christina Saunders
Solution-Focused Therapy in Practice
A Personal Experience

 
Jonathan Hales
Person-Centred Counselling and Solution-Focused Therapy
Michael Neenan and Stephen Palmer
Problem-Solving Counselling
John Lees
On Becoming a Psychodynamic Counsellor
Learning about Countertransference

 
John O'Brien
Mentoring as Change Agency
A Psychodynamic Approach

 
Richard Nelson-Jones
Towards Cognitive-Humanistic Counselling
Michael Neenan and Windy Dryden
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
An Overview

 
Diana Whitmore
Psychosynthesis
A Psychology With a Soul

 
Stephen Palmer interviews Professor Arnold A Lazarus
In the Counsellor's Chair
Multi-Modal Therapy

 
Sydney Klugman
From Education to Art Therapy
Gillie Bolton
Writing - A Therapeutic Space
Opening the Box

 
Geoff Pelham, Stephen Paul and Peter Holmes
A Relational Model of Counselling
 
PART TWO COUNSELLING CONTEXTS AND PRACTICE
 
Introduction to Part Two
Irene Bloomfield
Counselling Holocaust Survivors
Tuck Chee Phung
An Experience of Intercultural Counselling
Views from a Black Client

 
Aisha Dupont-Joshua interviews Lennox Thomas
In the Counsellor's Chair
Inter-Cultural Counselling

 
Tom[um]as Campbell, Tashisho Chabala and Gita Sheth
Issues Raised in a Counselling Support Group for HIV+ People in Zambia
Cathy Richards and Catherine McKisack
Group Therapy for Women with Eating Problems
Peter Ross
A Further Look at Group Therapy for Women with Eating Disorders in a University Setting
Richard House
General Practice Counselling
A Plea for Ideological Engagement

 
Janet Boakes
Depression
Alice Middleton and David I Williams
The Aftermath of Suicide
Peter Farrell
The Limitations of Current Theories in Understanding Bereavement and Grief
Tony Makin
The Social Model of Disability
Pauline Monks and Linda Martin
A Deaf Counselling Trainee
Can It Work?

 
Angela Devlin
Counselling Women in Prison
Calvin Bell
Counselling Intervention with Men Who Batter
Partner Safety and the Duty to Warn

 
Cordelia Galgut
A Fair Deal for Lesbians in Therapy
A Point of View and an Ethical Issue?

 
Lyndsey Moon
Working with Lesbian and Gay Clients
Lesley Marks
Adopted and at home With the World
A Message for Coubsellors

 
Birgit Carolin
Working with Children in a Family and Divorce Centre
Frank Parkinson
Critical Incident Debriefing
Suzanna Rose
Psychological Trauma
An Historical Perspective

 
Michael Neenan and Stephen Palmer
Stress Management and Counselling
Moira Walker
The Aftermath of Abuse
The Effects of Counselling on the Client and the Counsellor

 
Colin Crawford and Billy McCullough
Child Sexual Abuse
The Wider Context

 
Yvonne Craig
Attitudes to Ageing
Its Social Construction, Deconstruction and Reconstruction

 
Jane Robins
Partnership
Some Effects of Childhood Scripts on Intimate Relationships

 
 
PRACTICAL APPROACHES
 
Introduction to Practical Approaches
Gladeana McMahon
Reflective Practice
Gabrielle Syme
Assessment and Contracting
Sue Warren-Holland
Referral Letters
Mary Parker
Case-Study Writing
Gladeana McMahon
Note-taking and Administration for Counselling Supervisors
 
PART THREE: COUNSELLING ISSUES
 
Introduction to Part Three
Raj Persaud
The Wisest Counsel?
Pittu Laungani
Can Psychotherapies Seriously Damage Your Health?
Stephen Palmer and Kasia Szymanska
Therapy Checklist for Clients and Those Already in Therapy
Sheila Dainow
Making the Most of Therapy
How to Help Clients Get the Best from You

 
Judith Longman interviews Professor Ernesto Spinelli
In the Counsellor's Chair
Counselling and the Abuse of Power

 
Petruska Clarkson
Ethics for the Counselling Office
Janice Russell and Graham Dexter
'Menage a Trois'
Accreditation, NVQs and BAC

 
John Foskett
Whither Are We Led and by Whom?
A Reaction to 'Menage a Trois'

 
Judi Irving and Dave I Williams
The Role of Group Work in Counsellor Training
Amelia Lyons
The Case for Group Work in Counsellor Training
A Response

 
Tim Bond
HMIs Powers to Inspect Student Counsellors
Stephen Palmer interviews Ms Ling Gui Rui and Ms Hou Zhijin
In the Counsellor's Chair
Student Counselling and Counsellor Training in China

 
Pemma Littlehailes
Counsellor in Court
Roger Litton, Mark Scoggins and Stephen Palmer
Confidentiality and the Law
Peter Jenkins
From Transference to False Memory
Counsellor Liability in an Age of Litigation

 
Bill O'Connell and Caroline Jones
Solution-Focused Supervision
Gertrud Mander
Supervising Short-Term Psychodynamic Work
Maureen Murphy
On the Death of a Client
Jackie de Smith
Farewell Sonia
Susan Ridge, David Martin and William Campbell
Empathy and the 'As If' Condition
Any Room for Conscious Identification

 
Paul Wilkins
Congruence and Countertransference
Similarities and Differences

 
Marie Adams
Humour in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship
Not to Be Trifled with

 
 
COUNSELLING DILEMMAS
 
Introduction to Counselling Dilemmas
Fiona Palmer-Barnes, Gabrielle Syme, Stephen Crawford, Michael Jacobs and Joy Schaverien
Clients Ending Counselling
Fiona Palmer-Barnes, Gill Westland, Diana Whitmore, Caroline Jones and May Brun
To Hug a Client - Or Not?
Caroline Jones, Fiona Palmer-Barnes, Hillary Ratna and Anne Garland
Suicide Threat
 
PRACTICE DILEMMAS
Susie Lendrum, Roger Casemore, Janet Watson and Simon Needs
Clients Becoming Counsellors?
Roger Casemore, Cathy Carroll, Janet Tolan, Gaye Giles and Derek Hill
Student Appeals
Simon Needs, Derek Hill, Dawn Collins, Carole Pucknell and Val Potter
Counsellors Ending Counselling
Gladeana McMahon, Bill O'Connell, Roger Casemore and Fiona Purdie
A Bereaved Counsellor and Supervision
 
PART FOUR: COUNSELLING AND RESEARCH
 
Introduction to Part Four
Gordon Lynch
What is Truth?
A Philosophical Introduction to Counselling Research

 
William West
Critical Subjectivity
Use of the Self in Counselling Research

 
Judith M Brech and Peter L Agulnik
Do Brief Interventions Reduce Waiting Times for Counselling?
Mary Burton, Penny Henderson and Graham Curtis Jenkins
Primary Care Counsellors' Experiences of Supervision
Margaret Ward and Del Lowenthal
On What Basis Do General Practitioners Make Referrals?
David King and Sue Wheeler
Counselling Supervision
To Regulate or Not to Regulate?

 
Andrew Grayson, David Clarke and Hugh Miller
Students' Everyday Problems
A Systematic Qualitative Analysis

 
Roy Moodley and Shukla Dhingra
Cross-Cultural / Racial Matching in Counselling and Therapy
White Clients and Black Counsellors

 
Kim Etherington
Therapeutic Issues for Sexually Abused Adult Males
Patricia Hunt
Marketing Counselling Courses
 
PART FIVE: FUTURE TRENDS
 
Introduction to Part Five
Brian Thorne
The Move Towards Brief Therapy
Its Dangers and Its Challenges

 
Sue Wheeler
The Professionalisation of Counselling
Is it Possible?

 
John McLeod
Counselling as a Social Process
Roy Moodley
Counselling and Psychotherapy in a Multicultural Context
Some Training Issues

 
Colin Lago
Computer Therapeutics
Steve Page
Counselling by e-mail
Stephen Goss, Dave Robson and Deborah E Renard
The Challenge of the Internet
 
PART SIX: THE LAST WORD
 
Introduction to Part Six
Kenneth J Lewis
Preparing the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy for a New Future

`Counselling brings together in one volume a collection of some of the finest work to have appeared over the past few years in the journal of the same name, put out by the BACP....it tackles some of the mainstream issues about which one may wich to refresh one's knowledge, but manages to get right to the fringes in places one may find rather intriguing and novel (eg. General practice counselling: A plea for idealogocal engagement, Counselling interventions with men who batter: Partner safety and the duty to warn and The aftermath of abuse: The effects of counselling on the client and the counsellor)' - New Therapist

`This Second Volume of Counselling: the BACP Counselling Reader is a comprehensive array of articles which convey the breadth and depth of the specialty as it grew during the 1990s. The volume brings together the most important and influential papers published in Counselling, the official journal of the British Association for Counselling as it then was, over the last decade.

In all, 92 articles have been chosen and scrupulously checked by the editors and, in most cases, the original authors, to fill the 670 pages of the second volume. These provide direct access to the main theories, practices and issues which underpinned and continue to shape counselling and psychotherapy today. Each article concludes with discussion points to provoke further thought and study. For ease of access these papers are clustered in five sections: counselling approaches, contexts and practice, counselling issues, research, the future. We can expect the number of research articles to double in the next volume as the way opens up for all practitioners to consider research a crucial part of professional life. The final section on the future has been written by the past Chief Executive of BACP, and contains insight and wisdom on the challenges facing the profession at the dawn of the new century, with statutory regulation only a few years away.

BACP receives many requests for back copies of the journal, Counselling, upon which this Reader is based, for use in training courses and programme. The Second Volume of the Reader merits at least one copy in every medical library across the land for use not only in counselling and psychotherapy training, but for all those healthcare workers who use counselling skills in their work' - Maggie Pettifer, past Head of Publishing of BACP for Counselling and Psychotherapy Research


Easy to read
Great layout
Accessible for students

Miss Danielle Emma Pearn
Community Studies, Truro & Penwith College
July 13, 2016

Excellent capturing a range of articles in one book which are helping for additional stretching reading for students. Good use of discussion points at the end to evoke reflection and challenge thoughts.

Ms Deborah Gallagher
Kirklees College, Kirklees College
September 23, 2015

Some excellent ,material for those on the Level 4 HNC . Excellent resource for discussion and information . Good library respource

Mrs Margaret Rose Bull
School Of Care Studies, West Herts College
January 18, 2016

This is an excellent resource for trainers and will inform planning for teaching across a wide variety of topics.

Mr Ray BURNS
counselling, Northbrook College
April 26, 2015

This is a brilliant book. A must have

Miss Nicola Lord
department of health, preston collage
November 14, 2014

It includes the most important issues about counseling. It has more detailed information in relation to counseling theories. Due to the fact that this book includes sufficient examples of applications, counselors can understand the theories more easy.

Mr Azkan Çikrıkci
Educational Sciences, Artvin Coruh University
February 15, 2014

An excellent resource. Will be recommending to the Diploma group.

Mrs Susan Draper-Todkill
Counselling, South Nottingham College
September 24, 2013

This book is an excellent resource for our students. It is clear and will guide them through their course work

Mrs Susan Draper-Todkill
Counselling, South Nottingham College
August 8, 2013

An easy to use and in depth publication. Split into five sections this reader combines a collection of articles and research studies with professional and personal reflection, covering a variety of counselling theory and practice. Each article throughout the book not only provides a vast amount of information but concludes with topical issues to provoke further discussion and study. This well edited publication would be of benefit to any professional or trainee counsellor.

Miss Vicky Calvert
Dept of Health & Social Science, Preston College
February 7, 2013

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