Counselling Books
Training the counsellor: An integrative model
Drawing on many years of practical knowledge, this book offers down-to-earth guidance and up-to-date information on key issues in counsellor training, examining and consultancy, with examples of live... (more)
Research in Social Care and Social Welfare: Issues and Debates for Practice
This text explores the links between research, evidence-based pratice and policy in social care and social welfare. Basing their chapters in case- study material, the contributors examine the issues... (more)
Solution-Focused Stress Counselling
This volume is essentially practical in tone and reflects the author's commitment to demystifying therapeutic processes and making therapy more accessible to people who are under-supported within... (more)
Good Practice in Risk Assessment and Risk Management: Volume 2: Protection, Rights and Responsibilities
This collection of essays on risk assessment explores the arguments and means of assessment in an accessible manner, and with a practice-based emphasis. The contributors consider subjects as varied... (more)
From the ashes of experience: Reflections on madness, survival and growth
Too often mental health professionals and other social care workers find it easier to focus on discrete elements of an individual's life such as their illness or housing needs, rather than employing... (more)
Integrating Spirituality into Multicultural Counseling:
This practical and informative work explores spirituality from a multicultural perspective and aims to help professionals integrate multicultural views and spirituality into the provision of therapy,... (more)
Social work with black children and their families:
Part of a series, this is a guide to developments in welfare services for black families in the early 1980s. It describes practical ways of meeting the black population's needs and the implications... (more)
Challenges to counselling and psychotherapy:
A radical challenge to the foundations of therapy. The author's ultimate target is not counselling, but the abuse of professionalization and our current deity - consumerism. 192 pages. (more)
Lifemaps of People with Learning Disabilities
The use of lifemaps with people who have learning disabilities has proved particularly effective for a better understanding of their emotional perspectives and needs. This book presents fourteen... (more)
Balancing acts: Studies in counselling training
This volume examines philosophy and constructs of counselling training and the means by which students and trainers manage the complex demands placed upon them during the training process. The three... (more)
Feminist Counselling in Action
Aimed at counsellors, therapists, trainers and others who want a deeper understanding of how society affects them psychologically. The author draws on feminist theory and shows how entrenched,... (more)
Therapists' Dilemmas
This collection of interviews examines crucial issues of uncertainty which leading British and American therapists have encountered during the course of their work. This revised edition includes a... (more)
Counselling heroin and other drug users
320p Paperback 1995
Workplace Counselling
A practical and accessible book in which the author provides core guidance on how to operate best in an employee-counsellor role - and how to tackle the issues such a role raises - focusing on the... (more)
A Spiritual Strategy for Counseling and Psychotherapy: Second Revised Edition
Noting that spiritual perspectives have been excluded from psychological theory and practice of psychotherapy, this text proposes that the time is ripe for the inclusion of a spiritual strategy in... (more)
Counselling for psychosomatic problems
A practical guide to counselling clients who present with physical symptoms, but where psychological issues or problems are causing or maintaining those symptoms. The author examines the terminology... (more)
The Listening Reader: Fiction and Poetry for Counsellors and Psychotherapists
Those whose profession involves listening to others' stories are aware of the relevance of imaginative literature to their work. This book serves as a guide to resources and texts available, and to... (more)
Dealing with Emotional Problems Using Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT): A Practitioner's Guide
In this practical companion to the client manual, Windy Dryden draws on Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) – an approach that focuses on identifying, examining and changing the rigid/extreme... (more)
Exploring the Concept of Feel for Wellbeing and Performance: How We Lost the Felt Experience, Why it Matters, and How to Return to Our Natural Way of Being
This book analyses and unpacks the term Feel by exploring its many definitions and examples in real life. Incorporating psychological theories and case studies, it offers a groundbreaking look into... (more)
Highly Effective Therapy: Effecting Deep Change in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Second Edition
Trainees and practitioners need a trusted resource for mastering the essential skills and competencies necessary for effecting deep, lasting change in their clients. This second edition of Highly... (more)
The Pregnancy and Postpartum Mood Workbook: The Guide to Surviving Your Emotions When Having a Baby
This book helps you throughout your pregnancy and postpartum/postnatal recovery. By helping you understand what you are feeling, and teaching you empirically validated new skills so you can manage... (more)
Equine-Assisted Counseling and Psychotherapy: Healing Through Horses
Equine-Assisted Counseling and Psychotherapy offers a comprehensive guide to the practice of working with equines in a psychotherapeutic setting.
Chapters provide a research-informed approach to... (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)
Practicum and Internship: Textbook and Resource Guide for Counseling and Psychotherapy
Completely revised and updated, the sixth edition of Practicum and Internship is a practical resource that provides students and supervisors with thorough coverage of all stages and aspects of the... (more)
Culturally Diverse Counseling: Theory and Practice
With an emphasis on strengths as recommended in the 2017 multicultural guidelines set forth by the American Psychological Association (APA), this comprehensive text includes considerations for... (more)