Counselling Books
Patient Participation in Palliative Care: A Voice for the Voiceless
Patient participation and user involvement are central to current thinking about the effective delivery of desired healthcare outcomes. This book addresses key aspects in the provision of... (more)
Infertility and involuntary childlessness: Helping couples care
Infertility affects one in six couples and is at once a medical, psychological and social problem. This book shows therapists how to help individuals and couples cope with this crisis. 178 pages. (more)
Brief therapeutic consultations: An approach to systemic counselling
This text outlines the theory and practice of brief therapeutic consultations. Based on a life-cycle perspective, and within a systematic framework, this approach seeks to involve the consultant... (more)
A Reflective Guide to Gender Identity Counselling
Counselling professionals are increasingly seeking training for working with gender variant clients. Madison-Amy Webb invites them to consider a simple truth: everyone has a gender identity, whether... (more)
Religion, Spirituality, and Masculinity: New Insights for Counselors
Religion, Spirituality, and Masculinity provides concrete, practical suggestions for mental health professionals. Drawing from decades of clinical experience working with men and interdisciplinary... (more)
Disaster Mental Health Case Studies: Lessons Learned from Counseling in Chaos
Disaster Mental Health Case Studies is a riveting collection of case studies by master clinicians that reveal how disaster mental health interventions must be tailored to meet the needs of survivors.... (more)
Adlerian Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Wellness Approach
Adlerian Counseling and Psychotherapy, now in its sixth edition, places a fresh emphasis on wellness both in concept and in practice. Written with the practitioner in mind, this text provides a... (more)
Suicide Prevention Techniques: How a Suicide Crisis Service Saves Lives
Focusing on the methods used at a ground-breaking Suicide Crisis Centre which has a zero suicide achievement, this guide offers strategies to help people in suicidal crisis. Founded after the... (more)
Counselling and the Life Course
Counselling and the Life Course introduces counsellors to the concept of the life course as a multidimensional and multidisciplinary framework for thinking about clients' lives within and beyond the... (more)
Counselling Adults with Learning Disabilities
Taking a psychodynamic approach, Counselling Adults with Learning Disabilities describes current theoretical ideas in this area. Theories are described in an accessible way, with detailed examples... (more)
Counseling Persons of African Descent: Raising the Bar of Practitioner Competence
This represents a major breakthrough in scholarship on African American psychology. An important work for counseling professionals as well as for students in social work and counseling programs. It... (more)
Storytelling for Better Behaviour: Using Traditional Tales to Explore Responsibility, Decision Making and Conflict Resolution
Storytelling for Better Behaviour provides a method to teach students to reflect, consider and think in ways that can enhance the potential they have for making good decisions and resolving conflicts... (more)
Masterstress: A Professional Resource for Assessing and Managing Stress
This is a comprehensive professional resource for assessing stress and delivering stress management interventions. This is an extensive resource for health practitioners to: select the most... (more)
Basic Counselling Skills: A Helper's Manual: Fourth Revised Edition
A practical introduction for anyone using counselling skills, formally or informally, in their profession, and for trainee counsellors taking the first steps in their career. Written by leading... (more)
What Children Need to be Happy, Confident and Successful: Step by Step Positive Psychology to Help Children Flourish
What makes children happy, confident and successful? How can you help a child to flourish? Their environment is important, but the real difference is in your hands - every adult has the tools to help... (more)
How to Give Clients the Skills to Stop Panic Attacks: Don't Forget to Breathe
How to Give Clients the Skills to Stop Panic Attacks shows how it is possible to prevent and abort a panic attack through lifestyle change and mind-body relaxation. Presenting an effective approach... (more)
In Living Color: An Intercultural Approach to Pastoral Care and Counseling
The meaning of pastoral care in modern multicultural societies is challenged and re-examined from a pluralistic, global perspective in this book. Emmanuel Lartey stresses the importance of... (more)
Mastering Whole Family Assessment in Social Work: Balancing the Needs of Children, Adults and Their Families
How do you keep the whole family in mind when carrying out social work assessment? How do you balance the needs of adults and children? How do you ensure that children's welfare and safety are... (more)
Person-Centered Approaches for Counselors
Integrating common factors research and practice, Person-Centered Approaches for Counselors highlights the deep social justice roots of the approaches and shows counselors in training and experienced... (more)
Mental Health Policy and Practice
This highly regarded text offers a clear and considered guide to modern mental health policy and practice. Completely up to date, it highlights key changes and developments for today's students and... (more)
Psychoanalytic Approaches for Counselors
Using a common factors approach, this book will help counselors-in-training consider theories from the perspective of the client, and what makes sense to him/her. It will show that theory and... (more)
Psychosynthesis Counselling in Action: Fourth Edition
Psychosynthesis Counselling in Action is the definitive introduction to the principles and techniques of psychosynthesis. Pitched clearly and accessibly, it explains how the counsellor or... (more)
Spiritism and Mental Health
Practiced in community centers and psychiatric hospitals throughout Brazil, Spiritist therapies are gaining increasing recognition internationally for their ability to complement conventional... (more)