Counselling Books
What Can the Matter Be?: Therapeutic Interventions with Parents, Infants and Young Children
This volume is the result of over twenty years of therapeutic interventions with families within the Tavistock Clinic's Under Fives Service. It describes in detail the process of understanding young... (more)
Out of This World: Suicide Examined
This book is intended for anyone with either an interest in suicide or suicidal behaviour. It is not aimed solely at the professional psychotherapist but at a broad range of professionals who... (more)
Overcoming Everyday Racism: Building Resilience and Wellbeing in the Face of Discrimination and Microaggressions
This enlightening and reflective guide studies the psychological impact of racism and discrimination on BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) people and offers steps to improve wellbeing. It... (more)
Setting Up and Running a Therapy Business: Frequently Asked Questions
This book answers the questions that therapists frequently ask about setting up and running a business. It allows readers to successfully make the journey from being trained in how to conduct... (more)
Online Counselling and Guidance Skills: A Practical Resource for Trainees and Practitioners
Counsellors and other professionals who provide emotional support and guidance are increasingly working online.The difference between online and face-to-face interaction with clients is vast and... (more)
Personal Development Groups for Trainee Counsellors: An Essential Companion
Personal development (PD) groups are a key feature of many counsellor training programmes. Personal Development Groups for Trainee Counsellors: An Essential Companion is a comprehensive and... (more)
Integrating Counselling & Psychotherapy
This highly practical book presents a model for understanding distress and change in counselling and psychotherapy. It demonstrates the key similarity between different therapeutic approaches:... (more)
Counselling Children and Young People in Private Practice: A Practical Guide
With statutory CAMHS services often heavily oversubscribed, and school and college services mainly offering brief therapeutic interventions, parents are increasingly turning to private practitioners... (more)
Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide
Questions of sexuality and gender affect everyone and therefore have an inevitable relevance in the consulting room. Yet with interpretations and manifestations of both varying greatly from person to... (more)
Person-Centred Counselling in Action: Fourth Edition
It is now 25 years since the first edition of Person-Centred Counselling in Action appeared, offering the definitive exposition of the theory and practice of the person-centred approach. Since then... (more)
Integrative Counselling Skills in Action: Third Edition
The Third Edition of this bestselling introduction to the core counselling skills. It takes you step-by-step through the skills and strategies needed at each stage of the counselling process -... (more)
Next Steps in Counselling Practice: A Students' Companion for Degrees, HE Diplomas and Vocational Courses: Second Edition
A complete revision of the best-selling first edition, aligning it with contemporary developments in counselling and associated new training initiatives. The six sections of the book focus on the... (more)
Introducing Contemporary Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy: The Art and Science of the Unconscious
Over the last 30 years, important new theoretical ideas, skills and clinical practices have emerged in counselling and psychotherapy. While key Freudian concepts like transference,... (more)
Anti-Oppressive Counseling and Psychotherapy
In Anti-Oppressive Counseling and Psychotherapy, Jason D. Brown examines the impact of structural inequality on mental health and provides a framework for an anti-oppressive practice that recognizes... (more)
Transforming Emotion: Conversations in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Starting from the position that there is no universal story of emotion necessarily acceptable to all cultures, Fredman offers a repertoire of possibilities to talk about feelings, share understanding... (more)
Counselling for Anxiety Problems: Revised Edition
This concise and practical guide provides the counsellor with a model for understanding anxiety problems within the total context of the client's life. Adopting an eclectic cognitive and behavioural... (more)
Skills in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy: Second Edition
Updated in a second edition, the book includes a new chapter on neuropsychology and its implications for theory and practice, new content on working in the NHS and other settings, additional case... (more)
Psychotherapy and Counselling: Reflections on Practice
Psychotherapy and Counselling: Reflections on Practice provides a balance of engaging and in-depth stories and case studies from the inside of therapy. Representing the key practice modality sections... (more)
Skills in Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy
This is the definitive practical introduction to a skills-based approach in existential therapy. Accessible for those without a philosophical background, it describes the concrete and tangible... (more)
Understanding Adult Survivors of Domestic Violence in Childhood: Still Forgotten, Still Hurting
Domestic violence experienced in childhood continues to have an enduring emotional impact into adulthood. The scars it leaves can impact on family lives, employment, and long-term emotional and... (more)
Standards and Ethics for Counselling in Action: Fourth Edition
This is the ultimate guide to standards and ethics in the field and a must read for all trainee and practising counsellors and psychotherapists.
Updates to the new edition include:
- A free... (more)
Dyslexia and Mental Health: Helping People to Overcome Depressive, Self-Harming and Other Adverse Emotional Coping Strategies
Dyslexia is a complex condition that affects not only learning but every part of life. Experience or fear of social stigma can lead people with dyslexia to camouflage the difficulties they face, to... (more)
Confidentiality and Record Keeping in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Second Edition
This indispensible text is your students' first point of reference when faced with a situation or dilemma of a legal nature regarding record keeping or confidentiality issues. Reflecting changes in... (more)
School Counsellors Working with Young People and Staff: A Whole-School Approach
What is it like to work as a counsellor in schools? What relationship might a counsellor have with staff? How can a counsellor become a positive, integral part of school life? In this book, Nick... (more)
An Introduction to the Therapeutic Frame
Designed for psychotherapists and counsellors in training, An Introduction to the Therapeutic Frame clarifies the concept of the frame - the way of working set out in the first meeting between... (more)
Understanding Research in Counselling
Many counselling courses have a strong research element built into the modules and students are expected to gain a thorough understanding of research issues early on in their studies. This accessible... (more)
The Business Of Therapy: How To Run A Successful Private Practice
"How could I engage with him as a therapist, there was a dead plant in the hall - if he can't even keep a plant alive, how could he possibly help me?" This practical, accessible guide, written by a... (more)
Supervision in the Helping Professions: Fourth Edition
The latest edition of this best selling book on supervision updates and expands the previous three editions with references to the developments and writing in the field. Since the publication of the... (more)
Therapeutic Encounter: A Cross-modality Approach
The therapeutic relationship is at the core of counselling training and practice, regardless of therapeutic approach. This book usefully introduces a cross-modality approach to the therapist-client... (more)
Being White in the Helping Professions: Developing Effective Intercultural Awareness
In this reflective yet practical book, the author challenges white helping professionals to recognize their own cultural identity and the impact it has when practising in a multicultural environment.... (more)