Counselling Books
Is Counselling Training for You?:
An introduction to counsellor training which aims to help people assess their strengths and weaknesses and to decide if they have the right qualities to succeed. It discusses the realities, demands... (more)
Dual Diagnosis: Counseling the Mentally Ill Substance Abuser
Providing a synthesis of chemical dependency and mental health models, the book articulates a framework for assessment and treatment, and describes a range of counselling and motivational strategies... (more)
The Pastoral Counselling Treatment Planner
This sourcebook provides a selection of treatment plan components (behavioral definitions, long-term goals, short-term objectives, therapeutic and DSM-IV diagnoses) for spiritual problems, and life... (more)
Integrative Approaches to Supervision
As new techniques and approaches to supervision attract interest within therapy-related professions, the contributors to this informative book consider the nature of a supervision and examine the... (more)
Cultural Competence in the Caring Professions
The right of minority groups to define their culture and identity in their own terms is the central theme of this book. Divided into three parts, it explores the meaning of culture and identity,... (more)
Still Small Voice: An Introduction to Pastoral Counselling
This volume which offers an introduction to pastoral counselling, has been fully revised and updated to take account of advances in the theory and practice of pastoral counselling. (more)
Effective staff training in social care: From theory to practice
This work aims to provide a theoretical framework for training and professional development with particular emphasis on group learning in a social care context. It deals with the tensions and... (more)
Basic Skills in Psychotherapy and Counseling
This accessible text aims to prepare students for beginning mental health practice by helping to develop an overall appreciation of counselling and psychotherapy. It discusses the basic skills needed... (more)
On Being a Client: Understanding the Process of Counselling and Psychotherapy
There is a growing interest in what clients have to say about their experiences of counselling and psychotherapy. In a powerful analysis of this subject, David Howe identifies a number of clear and... (more)
Scapegoats: Transferring blame
This work examines the process of scapegoating from the perspectives of victims and perpetrators, tracing and comparing its development from earliest times as a rite of atonement to the modern forms... (more)
Models of collaboration: A guide for mental health professionals working with health care practitioners
A guide for Mental Health Professionals working with Health Care Practitioners (more)
Person-Centred Counselling and Christian Spirituality: The Secular and the Holy
Offers a history of hysteria that weaves its well-known features - repressed sexual ideas; indifference to conversion; over-identification with the other - into the hysteric form. Through a... (more)
Supervising Counsellors: Issues of Responsibility
A practical and insightful guide to the responsibilities facing all those involved in supervising practitioners and trainees. Drawing together contributions and new research from those at the... (more)
Risk Assessment in Social Care and Social Work
This text outlines the theoretical issues behind the decisions, processes and organizations involved in risk assessment. It considers implications for future policy, drawing on the full range of... (more)
Depression:
For everyone who gets depressed and for those who have to live or work with people who suffer from depression. This book pinpoints three main roots of psychologically caused depression - self-blame,... (more)
