Counselling Books
Expertise in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Master Therapist Studies from Around the World
Thomas Skovholt and Len Jennings' landmark Master Therapists: Exploring Expertise in Therapy and Counseling was the first book to apply qualitative methodology to the study of validly selected expert... (more)
Introduction to the Counseling Profession: Seventh Edition
Designed for students who are taking a preliminary course in the counseling field, Introduction to the Counseling Profession: Seventh Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the history and... (more)
A Global Portrait of Counselling Psychology
The official birth of counselling psychology is said to have occurred in 1951, when key United States leaders in what was then called the field of guidance and counselling formally adopted the terms... (more)
Developing Empathy: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Understanding Compassion for Therapists and Parents
Empathy is valued across cultures, and has a profound impact on psychotherapy, our children, and our world. Why then are many human relationships not empathetic? This volume describes in detail the... (more)
Sex, God, and the Conservative Church: Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy
Sex, God, and the Conservative Church guides psychotherapy and sexology clinicians on how to treat clients who grew up in a conservative faith mired in sexual shame and dysfunction and who... (more)
Resource Focused Counselling and Psychotherapy: An Introduction
Therapists sometimes ask: What supports you in life? What gets you through difficult times? Our 'journey' in life relies on a range of resources to equip and fulfil us. Knowing about these resources,... (more)
Cognitive Behavior Therapy in Counseling Practice
This Cognitive Behavior Therapy text is brief, practical, comprehensive, and tailored just for counselors. Evidence-based CBT techniques are specifically adapted to counseling including... (more)
How Animals Help Students Learn: Research and Practice for Educators and Mental Health Professionals
How Animals Help Students Learn summarizes what we know about the impact of animals in education and synthesizes the thinking of prominent leaders in research and practice. It's a much-needed... (more)
Women's Mental Health Across the Lifespan: Challenges, Vulnerabilities, and Strengths
Women's Mental Health Across the Lifespan examines women's mental health from a developmental perspective, looking at key stressors and strengths from adolescence to old age. Chapters focus in detail... (more)
Boundaries, Power and Ethical Responsibility in Counselling and Psychotherapy
The boundaries of the therapeutic relationship are a crucial part of effective therapy. But understanding them, and the effects of power and responsibility, can be intimidating to trainee or... (more)
Professional Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Ethics and the Law
Developing and maintaining a secure framework for professional practice is a core part of any counselling and psychotherapy training, as all therapists need to understand the key values, ethics and... (more)
Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Elements of Effective Practice
Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Elements of Effective Practice is a core text for introductory courses on clinical mental health counseling. The text opens with an introduction to the history and... (more)
Handbook of Counseling Women: Second Edition
The second edition's table of contents has been reorganized into nine sections, with a brand new introductory section called Women's Voices: Personal Perspectives on Professional Contributions. A new... (more)
An Introduction to Helping Skills: Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring
An Introduction to Helping Skills: Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring provides a full introduction to the theory and skills needed to work across the range of helping professions. Readers will be... (more)
The Trainee Handbook: A Guide for Counselling and Psychotherapy Trainees: Fourth Edition
Written by a team of leading trainers, practitioners and supervisors, this bestselling classic is the trainee therapist's best friend. It identifies and guides trainees through the practical skills... (more)
Encyclopedia of Counseling: Master Review and Tutorial for the National Counselor Examination, State Counseling Exams, and the Counselor Preparation Comprehensive Examination: Fourth Edition
With more questions and answers than any other edition, the Encyclopedia of Counseling: 4th Edition is still the only book you need to pass the NCE and other counseling exams. Every chapter has new... (more)
Behavioral, Humanistic-Existential, and Psychodynamic Approaches to Couples Counseling
Couples counseling is distinct from individual and family therapy and, while ideas from these other formats may be overlapping, applying theoretical concepts to couples has distinctive challenges.... (more)
Constructivist, Critical, and Integrative Approaches to Couples Counseling
Couples counseling is distinct from individual and family therapy and, while ideas from these other formats may be overlapping, applying theoretical concepts to couples has distinctive challenges.... (more)
Multiple Relationships in Psychotherapy and Counseling: Unavoidable, Common, and Mandatory Dual Relations in Therapy
This first-of-a-kind analysis will focus exclusively on unavoidable and mandated multiple relationships between clients and psychotherapists. The book will cover the ethics of a range of venues and... (more)
Mini-Max Interventions: 15 Simple Therapeutic Interventions That Have Maximum Impact
Mini-Max interventions are therapeutic communication strategies designed to achieve a lot with just a few linguistic tweaks: maximum results for minimal effort. If you want to improve your... (more)
Philosophy's Role in Counseling and Psychotherapy
In Philosophy's Role in Counseling and Psychotherapy, Peter Raabe argues that philosophy is an effective method in treating mental illness. Calling for a paradigm shift away from the standard belief... (more)
Five Pathways to Wholeness: Explorations in Pastoral Care and Counselling
Examines five pathways to wholeness within the Christian tradition of pastoral care: biblical counselling; the healing ministries; pastoral counselling; spiritual direction, and social change. These... (more)
The Relationship Paradigm: Human Being Beyond Individualism
In this important book, Godfrey Barrett-Lennard challenges the individualist focus of traditionalist psychology by proposing that the human condition is basically relational and interdependent. Rich... (more)
An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology and Counselling: Pathways of Mindfulness-Based Therapies: 2014
This book, now in its fifth edition, provides a comprehensive introduction to Buddhist psychology and counselling, exploring key concepts in psychology and practical applications in mindfulness-based... (more)
Solution Focused Practice in Asia
This book is a collection of solution focused practice across Asia, offering case examples from the fields of therapy, education, supervision, coaching and organisation/consulting. It demonstrates... (more)
Depressive Realism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Depressive Realism argues that people with mild-to-moderate depression have a more accurate perception of reality than non-depressives. Depressive Realism is a worldview of human existence that is... (more)
The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling: A Guide for All Faiths
The Art of Jewish Pastoral Counseling provides a clear, practical guide to working with congregants in a range of settings and illustrates the skills and core principles needed for effective pastoral... (more)
The Therapeutic Use of Self: Counselling Practice, Research and Supervision: Second Edition
The Therapeutic Use of Self has continued, since its publication in 1999, to be considered a key text within integrative, humanistic and relational approaches for the training and development of... (more)
Psychotherapy and Counselling: Reflections on Practice
Psychotherapy and Counselling: Reflections on Practice provides a balance of engaging and in-depth stories and case studies from the inside of therapy. Representing the key practice modality sections... (more)
Four Approaches to Counselling and Psychotherapy
Four Approaches to Counselling and Psychotherapy provides an essential introduction to and overview of the main models of psychotherapy and counselling. With a new preface from Windy Dryden, this... (more)