Counselling Books
Advocacy, counselling and mediation in casework: Processes of empowerment
Advocacy, counselling and mediation are compared in this text as social processes of social empowerment. The contributors examine the cultural and organizational contexts in which each of these media... (more)
Sexuality and women with learning disabilities
A study of women with mild or moderate learning disabilities, investigating these women's experiences of sexual life, derived from research based on interviews with the women themselves. 288 pages. (more)
Trauma and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
This is the first comprehensive reader in a new area of counselling. It brings together well-known authors on traumatic stress responses and good counselling practice, as well as new material... (more)
Disability: controversial debates and psychosocial perspectives
An essential guide for anyone working with or studying disability, mental health, and learning difficulties. The book examines a range of theories and practices in relation to disability. The focus... (more)
The Shadow and the Counsellor: Working with the Darker Aspects of the Person, the Role and the Profession
Introducing the concept of "shadow", this text examines how it comes into being and its impact within counselling. It considers how the counsellor's work may be affected by incorporating material... (more)
Practical counselling and helping:
A practical, jargon-free guide to counselling, this text offers clear information about how counselling and helping may be put into practice, whilst acknowledging and discussing its limitations. 147... (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)
Counselling and Supporting Children in Distress
Addresses the key issues and problems faced by adults involved in the care of children. 163 pages. (more)
Understanding the counselling relationship
This balanced, informative, and clear book puts the therapeutic - or in this case, counselling - relationship into context, and will be of great interest and value to everyone training or practising... (more)
Controversies in Psychotherapy and Counselling
Issues in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, counselling, clinical psychology and related therapies are not necessarily clear-cut. This work looks at theoretical, clinical, professional and social issues... (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)
Clinical Counselling in Primary Care
Looking at the solutions that practitioners have developed to meet the challenges of the medical setting, this text covers a range of clinical issues - such as the therapeutic framework, seeing the... (more)
Counselling women in violent relationships
This practical and comprehensive handbook guides the reader through the reality of the serious and very common problem of violence against women. 200 pages. (more)
Clinical Counselling in Context: An Introduction
176pp In the light of the late-1990s professionalization of counselling, this text examines the hypothesis that counselling theory and practice is altered by the specific organizational context in... (more)
Guiding the family: Practical counseling techniques
A book aimed at professional family counsellors and therapists, it is also accessible to parents and professionals from other fields who may become involved in some aspects of family counselling,... (more)
Boring records: Communication, speech and writing in social work
Basing its ideas on research material obtained within multidisciplinary child-guidance clinics, this book makes clear the complexity and importance of case recording; challenges the notion of record... (more)
Social workers, the community and social interaction: Intervention and the sociology of welfare
Offering insights into the lives and motives of social work service users, this text seeks to demonstrate the practical relevance of sociological research at the end of the 20th century for good... (more)
Training counselling supervisors
This book highlights the crucial themes intrinsic to the supervision process, and offers a selection of methods for educating supervisors. 237 pages. (more)
The Facilitating Partnership: A Winnicottian Approach for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals
This text concentrates on key Winnicottian concepts that are suited to agency-based social work-practice with people whose psychological well-being has been compromised by acute disruption or trauma,... (more)
Referral and termination issues for counsellors:
This guide to the practical issues surrounding the referral of clients and the termination of counselling stresses the need to be aware of limits of competency, legal issues and ethics, and to... (more)
Counselling and therapy with refugees and victims of trauma: Psychological problems of victims of war, torture and repression
The well-being of refugees displaced by war, disaster or repression is a concern worldwide, but particularly in Europe where mental health practitioners and services need special provision for them.... (more)
Counselling in a Multicultural Society
This book examines the many complex issues surrounding counselling and therapy in a multicultural society. It aims to sensitize readers to the cultural and racial setting in which counselling occurs,... (more)
New Directions in Transactional Analysis Counselling
A handbook on the theory and practice of Transactional Analysis. The author describes the main features of TA theory as well providing guidance on how the principles can be used in the context of... (more)
Group Counselling
This book provides a comprehensive examination of theories and concepts relating to group counselling and shows how differing theoretical frameworks can be used as a basis for practice. Organized... (more)
Counselling supervision in context
This book provides counsellors with practical information about supervising specific types of clients in specific organisational settings and different social contexts. 206 pages.
Social work and minorities - European perspectives
This work examines the complex problems occasioned by increased migration and settlement and the growing awareness of the specific needs of refugees and asylum seekers. Drawing from examples... (more)
The Management of Counselling and Psychotherapy Agencies
The authors of this book provide clear guidelines on the many aspects of knowledge, skill and management expertise increasingly required by all counselling services. Due consideration and detailed... (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)
The Practice of Counselling in Primary Care
This book addresses the unique circumstances and issues that counselling practitioners in primary care settings have to face, and explores the complex dynamics of healthcare teams. It provides a... (more)