Counselling Books
Supporting Young People through Everyday Chaos: Counselling When Things Fall Apart
This book provides ways to support and counsel young people struggling to adapt and live with the constant possibility of things breaking down, of normal life being overtaken by chaos.
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Supervision in the Helping Professions: Fifth Edition
This globally bestselling provides a comprehensive guide to clinical supervision practice for helping professions from various disciplines. As there has been a strong growrh in research on... (more)
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)
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)
Collaborative-Dialogic Practice: Relationships and Conversations that Make a Difference Across Contexts and Cultures
Collaborative-Dialogic Practice provides counselors, psychotherapists, and other mental health professionals a humanizing approach in facilitating transformative dialogues with their clients, making... (more)
How to Survive as a Psychotherapist
Nina Coltart’s classic work, How to Survive as a Psychotherapist, was written over a quarter of a century ago and yet still resonates today with sage advice for the aspiring and established... (more)
Roles and Contexts in Counselling Psychology: Professionals in Practice
Roles and Contexts in Counselling Psychology looks at the different contexts that counselling psychologists typically work within, offering a snapshot of the ‘day job’.
The book provides... (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)
Working with Trans Survivors of Sexual Violence: A Guide for Professionals
This book provides practical advice for professionals working with transgender (including non-binary) people who have survived any form of sexual violence and abuse. It gives professionals an... (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)
Brief Counselling: Narratives and Solutions
This book presents both solution focused and narrative approaches to brief counselling. Acknowledging the expertise of ordinary people in devising solutions to their problems, it reflects the current... (more)
Professional Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Ethics and the Law
Developing and maintaining a secure framework for professional practice is a core part of any counselling and psychotherapy training, as all therapists need to understand the key values, ethics and... (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)
Gestalt Counselling in Action: Fourth Edition
Petruska Clarkson's classic text is the definitive introduction to Gestalt therapy. This fourth edition, updated by Simon Cavicchia, covers the latest in Gestalt theory, research and practice.... (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)
Working with Drug and Alcohol Users: A Guide to Providing Understanding, Assessment and Support
Working with Drug and Alcohol Users provides an accessible guide to substance use and working with substance users. Using transactional analysis theory, the author explains why some people use... (more)
The Developing Practitioner: Growth and Stagnation of Therapists and Counselors
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the professional development of counselors and therapists over the career lifespan. Drawing on their own extensive experience as psychotherapists,... (more)
Integration in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Second Edition
Now in its second edition, this book is established reading for any practitioner or trainee wishing to develop their own personal style of working. As well as examining contemporary integrative... (more)
Feeling Queer or Queer Feelings?: Radical Approaches to Counselling Sex, Sexualities and Genders
"Feeling Queer or Queer Feelings?" presents highly innovative and contemporary ideas for counsellors, counselling and clinical psychologists and psychotherapists to consider in their work with... (more)
Contracts in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Second Edition
This second edition of "Contracts in Counselling and Psychotherapy" continues to be one of the few texts to provide an accessible but highly informative introduction to what contracts are, why they... (more)
Advanced Skills and Interventions in Therapeutic Counselling
Providing the reader with an understanding of the personality, this book reviews fundamentals of the counselling process. Giving the reader a means to assess clients, it gives illustrations for each... (more)
Supervision: Questions and Answers for Counsellors and Therapists
Supervision is a prerequisite for all counsellors, and for most psychotherapists, yet until recently it has been assumed that any experienced counsellor or therapist could become a supervisor without... (more)
Reporting in Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Trainee's Guide to Preparing Case Studies and Reports.
Trainee therapists need to show practical competence through the production of client reports and case studies. Using clinical examples and a detailed analysis of case study and process report... (more)
Integrative and Eclectic Counselling and Psychotherapy
An examination of the issues and ideas surrounding integration and eclecticism in a therapeutic context, and a detailed account of a range of approaches in use. Contributors introduce and explain the... (more)
New Directions in Transactional Analysis Counselling
A handbook on the theory and practice of Transactional Analysis. The author describes the main features of TA theory as well providing guidance on how the principles can be used in the context of... (more)
Training and Supervision for Counselling in Action
This accessible book explores the issues involved in both the training and supervision of counsellors and in the preparation of those who are to undertake supervisory and training roles. The number... (more)
Learning and teaching in social work: Towards reflective practice
Addresses contemporary themes in the post-professional education of social workers and related professionals. The book focuses on the nature of professional education, its changing epistemological... (more)
Helping the Client: A Creative Practical Guide
A synthesis of the conceptual and the practical, this book is aimed at counsellors and therapists who wish to develop their repertoire of skills and methods for helping a client. 192 pages. (more)
Developing Gestalt Counselling
Describing contemporary integrative Gestalt counselling and psychotherapy, this book addresses 30 key issues which will help both trainee and practising counsellors examine and improve crucial areas... (more)
Developing Counsellor Supervision
Supervision is a professional and ethical necessity for all counsellors, providing them with consultative and supportive aid while protecting clients from potential abuse - yet relatively little has... (more)