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)
What Therapists Say and Why They Say It: Effective Therapeutic Responses and Techniques
What Therapists Say and Why They Say It, Third Edition, is one of the most practical and flexible textbooks available to counseling students. The new edition includes more than one hundred techniques... (more)
White Privilege Unmasked: How to Be Part of the Solution
All white people understand cultural differences from a platform of relative privilege, affecting their personal and professional interactions. How should they respond when confronted with this... (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)
Swift to Hear: Facilitating Skills in Listening and Responding
The author describes the development of basic listening and responding skills, and the process of communication which is at the heart of the helping interview. Numerous exercises make this an... (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)
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)
Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure
An engaging account of Toad's experience with transactional analysis counselling, which brings back to life the characters from "The wind in the willows" all over again. 128 pages. (more)
Reflective Writing in Counselling and Psychotherapy
In this book Jeannie Wright takes readers on a journey from how to start writing, through the various approaches, on to how to deal with obstacles, and how to maintain reflective enquiry as a... (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)
The Presenting Past: The Core Of Psychodynamic Counselling and Therapy: Fourth Edition
A person's past is ever present, from infancy to old age, and it always affects the dynamics of therapy and the therapist-patient relationship. Written by one of the most-cited counselling authors in... (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)
Counselling and Psychotherapy with Refugees
This concise book is an essential tool to help counsellors and psychotherapists understand and engage with the experiences of persecution, violence and exile often faced by refugees. (more)
The Making of a Counsellor
In The Making of a Counsellor case studies illustrate work done with 'impossible' clients; other essays about orphans and debtors, accountancy trainees and expatriate employees explore new ways of... (more)
Handbook of Professional and Ethical Practice for Psychologists, Counsellors and Psychotherapists: Third Edition
This exciting new edition provides an overview of the main professional, ethical and research issues that are required knowledge for counsellors, therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists engaging... (more)
Counselling Skills in Action: Fourth Edition
Now in its 4th edition, this bestselling book introduces you to the core counselling and psychotherapy skills you will need for effective therapeutic practice.
This book introduces you to the... (more)
The Temporal Dimension in Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Journey in Time
The Temporal Dimension in Counselling and Psychotherapy looks at time as an intangible phenomenon that is culturally created, historically framed but only individually understood. Examining our... (more)
An Introduction to Psychodynamic Counselling
This key book in the Basic Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy series is an authoritative and accessible introduction to psychodynamic counselling and its basic principles. The author, Laurence... (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)
Counseling at the Beginning: Interventions and Issues in Infancy and Early Childhood
Counseling at the Beginning is a thorough, practice-based guide for counselors who serve the mental health needs of very young children and their families. Chapters based on current developmental... (more)
Working with Asylum Seekers and Refugees: What to Do, What Not to Do, and How to Help
This hands-on guide provides accessible, insightful advice for practitioners who find themselves working with asylum seekers and refugees. Part I covers the essentials of understanding refugees'... (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)
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)
An Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy
This bestseller provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of counselling and psychotherapy. This new edition has been thoroughly updated with new research, examples from... (more)
Carl Rogers Counsels a Black Client
This book takes as its starting-point the films Carl Rogers Counsels an Individual - Right to be Desperate and On Anger and Hurt, made in 1977, in which Carl Rogers worked with a black male client.... (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)
Psychodynamic Counselling in Action: Fifth Edition
This substantially revised fifth edition of a classic text includes an updated preface, new content on the therapeutic relationship, substantially revised chapters on the middle phase of counselling... (more)
Mad or Bad?: A Critical Approach to Counselling and Forensic Psychology
A cutting-edge text that provides a comprehensive introduction to mental health problems and criminal behaviour, this book explores the link between mental health and criminality and considers the... (more)