Counselling Books
Counselling Supervision in Organisations: Professional and Ethical Dilemmas Explored
This book brings together the cultures of counselling and supervision and their relation to organisational cultures, providing an understanding of the employment processes for counselling supervisors... (more)
Speaking the Unspeakable: The Ethics of Dual Relationships in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Are dual relationships always detrimental? "Speaking the Unspeakable" provides an in-depth exploration of client-practitioner dual relationships, offering critical discussion and sustained narrative... (more)
Guided Imagery: Creative Interventions in Counselling and Psychotherapy
"Guided Imagery" is a unique, practical guide to using imagery in one-to-one therapeutic work with clients. Through numerous examples drawn from their own experience, the authors show how the... (more)
Gestalt Therapy: History, Theory and Practice
Gestalt Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice is a basic, introductory text, written by major Gestalt theorists, that will engage those new to Gestalt therapy. Editors Ansel Woldt and Sarah M. Toman... (more)
Relationship Counselling: Sons and Their Mothers: A Person-Centred Dialogue
Young men trying to resolve traumatic experiences and relationship issues with their mothers is not an area that has attracted a great deal of attention, and yet it is not uncommon. Peter is 28,... (more)
Sex and Sexuality: Questions and Answers
This book bridges the gap between the counsellor and the specialist sex therapist, by providing answers to questions raised by patients or clients about sex, gender and sexuality. It covers... (more)
The Abuse of Older People - A Training Manual for Detection and Prevention:
This handbook guides professionals in the welfare sector through interactive examples of the abuse of older people set in institutional and community placements, to increase the development of their... (more)
Risk and Risk Taking in Health and Social Welfare:
Mike Titterton offers an innovative model of risk work, arguing that a thoughtful risk taking approach in health and social care can lead to empowerment and greater independence for vulnerable... (more)
Assessment in Counselling: Theory, Process and Decision Making
This text helps clarify the nature and purpose of assessment in counselling. It explores the theoretical underpinnings of assessment across the core therapeutic schools and addresses critical... (more)
Testing and Assessment in Counseling Practice:
The purpose of this work is to show how key personality, cognitive, behavioural and vocational tests and assessment procedures can be used by counsellors in their work with clients. The contributors... (more)
Handbook of Racial-Cultural Psychology and Counseling:
This two-volume handbook offers a thorough treatment of the concepts and theoretical developments concerning how to apply cultural knowledge in theory and practice to various racial and cultural... (more)
Practical Counselling Skills: An Integrative Approach
This book is a comprehensive, easy-to-read introduction to personal counselling, written for student counsellors and new counsellors, and those who train/supervise them. The book contains many... (more)
The Essential Skills for Setting Up a Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice
Many practitioners consider setting up in private practice at some point in their career, whether full-time or alongside other employment. This book provides comprehensive yet accessible coverage of... (more)
Domestic Violence: Handbook for Healthcare Professionals
Health care practitioners have daily contact with patients whose health is damaged by domestic violence and who often face risks of further and more extreme injury. This title concerns the NHS... (more)
Multilingual Living: Explorations of Language & Subjectivity.
How do bilingual and multilingual people think about themselves and their languages? What are the effects on family relationships of living in several languages? How does language shape our thoughts... (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)
Managing High Risk Offenders in the Community:
Risk Management of Sex Offenders in the Community attempts to answer questions about the nature of the risk posed by sex offenders, and the most effective means of managing that risk in the community. (more)
Responding to a Serious Mental Health Problem: Person-Centred Dialogues
This book uses narrative to describe powerfully what is happening, interspersed with the counsellors thoughts and reflections. Sessions of supervision are also described and linked to what is... (more)
Counselling for Depression
Due in February 2005. A highly practical guide for therapists and those who are seeking to help depressed people. Paul Lockley shows how to employ techniques which open up life again for the... (more)
Social Work Supervision:
Social work supervision in large part determines the job satisfaction of social workers and thus the quality of the service provided. (more)
Setting Up New Services in the NHS: Just Add Water
This guide for setting up a clinical service in the National Health Service is based on the author's experience of leading a nationally funded project to develop two new specialist services in... (more)
