Counselling Books
Becoming an Effective Counselor: A Guide for Advanced Clinical Courses
Becoming an Effective Counselor is a textbook for advanced clinical courses that guides counselors in training through the most challenging phases of their academic preparation. Chapters blend... (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)
Anti-Oppressive Counseling and Psychotherapy
In Anti-Oppressive Counseling and Psychotherapy, Jason D. Brown examines the impact of structural inequality on mental health and provides a framework for an anti-oppressive practice that recognizes... (more)
Counselling and Psychotherapy after Domestic Violence: A Client View of What Helps Recovery
This is a refreshing and thought provoking book, presenting the views of female and male counselling clients about their experience of therapy after domestic violence. It brings together the existing... (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)
Reflective Writing in Counselling and Psychotherapy
In this book Jeannie Wright takes readers on a journey from how to start writing, through the various approaches, on to how to deal with obstacles, and how to maintain reflective enquiry as a... (more)
Case Conceptualization and Treatment Planning: Integrating Theory With Clinical Practice
This book teaches students in counseling, psychotherapy, and clinical psychology how to develop the case conceptualization and treatment planning skills necessary to help clients achieve change.... (more)
Creative Career Coaching: Theory into Practice
Creative Career Coaching: Theory into Practice is an innovative book for career development students and professionals aiming to progress their coaching practices in creative avenues. Without losing... (more)
Professional Behaviors and Dispositions: Counseling Competencies and Lifelong Growth
Professional Behaviors and Dispositions teaches counselors in training (CITs) how to cultivate counselor competencies and critical thinking skills in support of lifelong professional development.... (more)
Mental health social work re-imagined
This much-needed book calls for a return to mental health social work that has personal relationships and an emotional connection between workers and those experiencing distress at its core. (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)
Supporting Young Transgender Men
There is currently a lack of information available regarding the specific needs of young transgender men, and the barriers that they face. This can lead to professionals having to give generic... (more)
Counselling Skills for Working with Gender Diversity and Identity
For any student or practitioner needing to gain a sound understanding of the complex fields of gender variance, gender identity and gender dysphoria, this book provides the ideal starting point for... (more)
Psychodynamic Counselling in a Nutshell
Susan Howard explains in a clear, jargon-free style, the concepts at the heart of the psychodynamic approach, and, drawing on case material, describes the therapeutic practice which rests on those... (more)
Spirituality and Religion in Counseling: Competency-Based Strategies for Ethical Practice
Spirituality and Religion in Counseling provides mental health professionals and counselors in training with practical information for understanding and responding to clients' needs using a spiritual... (more)
Counseling for Artists Performers and Other Creative Individuals: A Guide For Clinicians
Informed by clinical case studies, scientific research, and relevant theories, Counseling for Artists, Performers, and Other Creative Individuals takes an in-depth look at the ways creative traits,... (more)
Very Brief Therapeutic Conversations
In Very Brief Therapeutic Conversations, Windy Dryden demonstrates the therapeutic value of very brief interventions in counselling, psychotherapy and coaching, using a wide range of techniques and... (more)
Abolishing the Concept of Mental Illness: Rethinking the Nature of Our Woes
In Abolishing the Concept of Mental Illness: Rethinking the Nature of Our Woes, Richard Hallam takes aim at the very concept of mental illness, and explores new ways of thinking about and responding... (more)
Flexibility-Based Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Insights from Forty Years of Practice
In this book, Windy Dryden brings together the four major strands that have shaped his idiosyncratic approach to clinical practice - (i) Cognitive Behaviour Therapy; (ii) flexibility in practice;... (more)
Journeys to Professional Excellence: Stories of Courage, Innovation, and Risk-Taking in the Lives of Noted Psychologists and Counselors
Includes powerful narratives that cover the challenges and joys related to ethnic identity, dealing with immigrant status and poverty, exploring public policy, challenging the status quo and taking... (more)
Business Basics for Private Practice: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals
Business Basics for Private Practice provides a step-by-step guide to developing a successful practice from initial conceptualization and business plan to future growth for the true entrepreneur. Dr.... (more)
Humane Helping: Focusing Less on Disorders and More on Life's Challenges
Humane Helping is a comprehensive, practical guide that helps clinicians shift their practice from the mental disorder-and-chemical fix and expert-talk models to a more humane, helpful model that... (more)
Using the Socratic Method in Counseling: A Guide to Channeling Inborn Knowledge
Using the Socratic Method in Counseling shows counselors how to use the Socratic method to help clients solve life problems using knowledge they may not realize they have. Coauthored by two experts... (more)
Pluralistic Therapy: Distinctive Features
Pluralistic Therapy: Distinctive Features offers an introduction to what is distinctive about this increasingly popular method. Written by one of the co-founders of pluralistic therapy, and a leading... (more)
Dictionary of Counselling: Second Edition
This book provides concise definitions of more than 1000 terms used in the field of counselling. As well as covering theory and practice, the book also includes client concerns and problems which may... (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)
