Counselling Books
Younger People with Dementia: Planning, Practice and Development
This text addresses the subject of younger people with dementia as a topic in its own right (more)
Social psychology and human sexuality: Essential readings
This work presents a selected group of influential articles dealing specifically with the social aspects of sexuality, topics covered include differences between male and female sexuality, virginity,... (more)
Basic Skills in Psychotherapy and Counseling
This accessible text aims to prepare students for beginning mental health practice by helping to develop an overall appreciation of counselling and psychotherapy. It discusses the basic skills needed... (more)
Community and confluence: Undoing the clinch of oppression
The author of this text presents an argument for applying the methods and insights of the Gestalt perspective to social and political problems. Focusing on the dynamics of power and abuse... (more)
Community care: A reader
This interdisciplinary volume on community care brings together leading writers and researchers in the field. The articles in the book are divided into four sections: community; care; policy; and... (more)
Asian adolescents in the West:
British-born Asian adolescents have to face the problems of growing up in two distinctive cultural traditions and value systems. This text looks at inter-ethnic relations, racial prejudice, gender... (more)
Hanging by a twig: Understanding and counseling adults with learning disabilities and ADD
A highly educational and instructive work, filled with well-selected case studies rich with clients' stories and quotes. The authors comprehensive view of adults with learning disabilities will guide... (more)
Cultures of care: Biographies of carers in Britain and the two Germanies
This work compares the experiences of unpaid family carers in three different welfare systems. It investigates the inter-relatedness of the personal and the social, how individual lives are shaped by... (more)
Counselling in primary health care:
Aims to help all those in the primary care team to examine their role as counsellors to their patients or as the gateway to other counselling services. The book examines the different points of view... (more)
Counselling skills for teachers: Talking matters
This text is aimed at new entrants and experienced teachers who are involved in pastoral work with students aged 11-18 in mainstream education. 128 pages. (more)
Gender loving care: A guide to counseling gender-variant clients
While transsexualism has always been part of the human experience, only recently have people "trapped in the wrong body" sought psychological care in large numbers. This book provides background... (more)
The social work psychoanalyst's casebook: Essays in honour of Jean Sanville
This text offers accounts of nine analyses that cover in detail what transpired between analysts and their analysands during the treatment hours. The theoretical perspectives and therapeutic... (more)
Philosophy practice: An alternative to counselling and psychotherapy
A description of the practice of philosophical counselling, which is emerging as an alternative to psychotherapy. It discusses the main theoretical aspects of this practice, based on a dialogue... (more)
The phoenix phenomenon: rising from the ashes of grief:
A balanced work of hope and promise about living after a loved one has died - about alchemizing pain and despair into something empowering, purposeful, transcendent. The author, a bereavement... (more)
Enhancing counselor intervention strategies: An integrational viewpoint
Prepares future professionals in the field of counselling psychology with a guide to theory and practice, linking learning principles with therapeutic change modalities. It also teaches the... (more)
Counselling and helping carers:
The needs of carers are sometimes unclear and many health or voluntary workers are uncertain about their role in relation to the carers and their needs. This book provides basic counselling and... (more)