Counselling Books
Counselling and Psychotherapy in Primary Health Care: A Psychodynamic Approach
From small beginnings in the 1970s, counselling in primary care has now become an established area of practice. It is well recognised that a significant proportion of patients in primary health care... (more)
Long-Term Counselling
This work encourages trainee counsellors and practitioners to think about long-term work, identifying working parameters and issues of definition. It focuses on managing the work, and discusses the... (more)
Person-centred counselling: An experiential approach
A presentation of ideas about person-centred theory and practice, all grounded in self-awareness of both client and counsellor. Emphasis is placed on the counsellor / client relationship in areas... (more)
Counselling and Psychotherapy in Private Practice
Explores the conflicts of running a business which has to be ethical and responsive to clients' needs - but at the same time has to be successful and profitable. This book provides advice on... (more)
The Needs of Counsellors and Psychotherapists
In this powerful book, leading counsellors and psychotherapists discuss the emotional, physical, social and professional needs of people who work, or would like to work, in a therapeutic setting, and... (more)
Developing Psychodynamic Counselling
By integrating theory and context, Brendan McLoughlin explores the opportunities for counsellors to develop their own practice of psychodynamic counselling. He encourages readers to look carefully at... (more)
Transcultural Counselling in Action: Second Edition
This revised second edition provides a clear and practical guide to help counsellors and other professional helpers give effective, sensitive, and appropriate support to clients from cultures other... (more)
Decisional Dialogues in a Cultural Context: Structured Exercises
Cultivating sensitivity to ethnographic, demographic, status and affiliation differences between people, this practical and creative resource provides a workbook approach to learning interviewing... (more)
Pregnancy and abortion counselling
Aimed at professionals in the field, this work provides a review of the social, moral and legal issues surrounding contraception and abortion and offers guidelines for establishing good practice.... (more)
The Making of a Counsellor
In The Making of a Counsellor case studies illustrate work done with 'impossible' clients; other essays about orphans and debtors, accountancy trainees and expatriate employees explore new ways of... (more)
Counselling Young People
Based on the author's experience as psychotherapist and counsellor, this book provides an approachable introduction to the field of counselling young people for anyone undertaking counselling within... (more)
Counselling heroin and other drug users
320p Paperback 1995
Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Many counselling and psychotherapy researchers are suspicious of the pronouncements of practitioners because they are not backed up by research. Similarly, practitioners tend to ignore research... (more)
Workplace Counselling
A practical and accessible book in which the author provides core guidance on how to operate best in an employee-counsellor role - and how to tackle the issues such a role raises - focusing on the... (more)
Counselling by Telephone
This book explores the essential skills needed to carry out effective telephone counselling - such as welcoming and establishing a relationship with clients; listening and responding; understanding... (more)
Developing Gestalt Counselling
Describing contemporary integrative Gestalt counselling and psychotherapy, this book addresses 30 key issues which will help both trainee and practising counsellors examine and improve crucial areas... (more)
Handbook of Counselling in Organizations
The book provides a thorough and detailed examination of the key areas and concerns of counselling in organizations. It is a practical and accessible work and will be invaluable to students and... (more)
Counselling: the BACP Counselling Reader: Vol. 1
This comprehensive and stimulating Reader draws together key material which has been published in Counselling, the Journal of the British Association for Counselling, in recent years. Combining... (more)
Training counsellors: The assessment of competence
Shows how competence can be assessed in counsellor training, offering material for counselling trainers to promote good practice in the profession. The text forms a summary of available research on... (more)
Inside counselling: Becoming and being a professional counsellor
An exploration of the experience of becoming and being a counsellor and engaging in therapeutic process. Written in a novel-like form, the book enters the internal, subjective world of counselling... (more)
Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure
An engaging account of Toad's experience with transactional analysis counselling, which brings back to life the characters from "The wind in the willows" all over again. 128 pages. (more)
A Spiritual Strategy for Counseling and Psychotherapy: Second Revised Edition
Noting that spiritual perspectives have been excluded from psychological theory and practice of psychotherapy, this text proposes that the time is ripe for the inclusion of a spiritual strategy in... (more)
Developing Transactional Analysis Counselling
This concise workbook provides 30 practical suggestions to help practising counsellors develop and enhance their Transactional Analysis (TA) counselling skills. After a brief introductory section... (more)
New Directions in Counselling
This text responds to the major changes affecting counselling - national and European legislation, the drive for greater professionalism, accountability, competency and multiculturalism. The book... (more)
We are all living with HIV: How to set policies and guidelines for the workplace
350p Paperback 1997
Swift to Hear: Facilitating Skills in Listening and Responding
The author describes the development of basic listening and responding skills, and the process of communication which is at the heart of the helping interview. Numerous exercises make this an... (more)