First Steps in Practitioner Research: A Guide to Understanding and Doing Research for Helping Practitioners
Book Details
- Publisher : PCCS Books
- Published : 2010
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 250
- Category :
Research - Catalogue No : 30391
- ISBN 13 : 9781898059738
- ISBN 10 : 189805973X
About the Author(s)
Pete Sanders was white British. He worked as a volunteer at 'Off The Record', Newcastle-upon Tyne, in 1972 before completing a degree in psychology at the university there, and then the postgraduate diploma in counselling at Aston University. He practised as a counsellor, educator and clinical supervisor for more than 30 years, and published widely on many aspects of counselling, psychotherapy and mental health, as well as co-founding PCCS Books in 1993. After practising and teaching counselling, he continued to have an active interest in developing person-centred theory, the politics of counselling and psychotherapy and the demedicalisation of distress. He died in February 2022.
Paul Wilkins is a person-centred academic, practitioner and supervisor. After managing local authority mental health resources, he worked as a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University until 2009.