Counselling Books
Hopes & Dreams - Developing Potential: A Practical Approach to Developing Potential
This practical resource provides the tools to help individuals explore their ambitions, set goals and plan to achieve them, manage their lives and gain the skills to make their hopes and dreams a... (more)
Stillpoints for Children: Guided Relaxation, Meditation and Visualisation
Research shows that the stress points in children's daily lives are on the increase and can have a negative impact on their ability to learn, relate to others and to themselves. This practical... (more)
Group Activities for Personal Development: A Group Leader's Handbook
Aimed at professionals working with groups that are developing social skills and exploring relationships, this photocopiable handbook is a vital collection of workshops covering specific themes. Each... (more)
Storytelling for Better Behaviour: Using Traditional Tales to Explore Responsibility, Decision Making and Conflict Resolution
Storytelling for Better Behaviour provides a method to teach students to reflect, consider and think in ways that can enhance the potential they have for making good decisions and resolving conflicts... (more)
Masterstress: A Professional Resource for Assessing and Managing Stress
This is a comprehensive professional resource for assessing stress and delivering stress management interventions. This is an extensive resource for health practitioners to: select the most... (more)
Counseling Adolescents Competently
Authors Lee Underwood and Frances Dailey review extensive interventions ranging from assessment to diagnosis as well as fresh perspectives on working with this often challenging group. Employing... (more)
Counseling Children and Adolescents: Connecting Theory, Development, and Diversity
Adopting a broad approach which encompasses a range of ages, approaches, and interventions that are applicable to varied settings the authors have laid out an integrated framework that focuses on... (more)
Skills in Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy
This is the definitive practical introduction to a skills-based approach in existential therapy. Accessible for those without a philosophical background, it describes the concrete and tangible... (more)
Using Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy
In this book bestselling author John McLeod examines the multiple ways in which research can be used to inform and enhance counselling practice. The author discusses how research impacts on policy... (more)
Career Counselling: Constructivist Approaches: Second Edition
Due to the increasing demand for career guidance in recent years, career counsellors have been challenged to modernise their practice. As a response to the rapidly changing world of work, with more... (more)
Listening to Less-Heard Voices in Counselling: Developing Counsellors' Awareness
This book is written in order to enhance practice and understanding in Counselling and allied helping professions. The contributors are all qualified Counsellors and the work is grounded in research.... (more)
The School-Based Counselling Primer: A Concise, Accessible Introduction
School-based counselling is high on the health and education policy agendas. Every major political party has declared its belief in the importance of school-based counselling to the wellbeing of... (more)
Pre-Marital Counseling: A Guide for Clinicians
A guide for therapists and counselors, Pre-Marital Counseling addresses the common problems couples face when starting or considering marriage. This step-by-step guide teaches specific intervention... (more)
Out of This World: Suicide Examined
This book is intended for anyone with either an interest in suicide or suicidal behaviour. It is not aimed solely at the professional psychotherapist but at a broad range of professionals who... (more)
The Future of Psychological Therapy: From Managed Care to Transformational Practice
The psychotherapy and counselling profession has recently experienced far-reaching changes because of the development of evidence-based medicine and managed care systems. The Future of Psychological... (more)
Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling: Four Directions for Integration with Counselling Psychology
North America's Indigenous population is a vulnerable group, with specific psychological and healing needs that are not widely met in the mental health care system. Indigenous peoples face certain... (more)
Sexuality Counseling: Theory, Research, and Practice
Providing a comprehensive, research- and theory-based approach to sexuality counseling, Sexuality Counseling is grounded in an integrative, multi-level conceptual framework that addresses the various... (more)
Person-Centred Therapy: 100 Key Points: Second Edition
Person-centred therapy, rooted in the experience and ideas of the eminent psychotherapist Carl Rogers, is widely practised in the UK and throughout the world. It has applications in health and social... (more)
The Reality Game: A Guide to Humanistic Counselling and Psychotherapy: Third Edition
In the years since it was first published, The Reality Game has become a classic text. For all those training and practising in humanistic and integrative psychotherapy is it an essential guide to... (more)
Cognitive Behavioural Counselling in Action: Third Edition
This best-selling, practical, evidence-based guide to the cognitive behavioural approach takes you step-by-step through the process of counselling, from initial contact with the client to termination... (more)
Basic Counselling Skills: A Helper's Manual: Fourth Revised Edition
A practical introduction for anyone using counselling skills, formally or informally, in their profession, and for trainee counsellors taking the first steps in their career. Written by leading... (more)
The Handbook of Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy
A practical resource that your students can return to again and again to guide and coordinate their pluralistic practice, it provides:
*Hands-on guidance to developing pluralistic practice:... (more)
The Handbook of Counselling Psychology: Fourth Revised Edition
This fourth edition provides the most comprehensive guide to the field of counselling psychology, exploring a range of theories and philosophical underpinnings, practice approaches and contexts, and... (more)
Introduction to Career Counselling and Coaching
This book offers a practical introduction for those training in the field of career development, career counselling and career coaching, this book will take your students through established and... (more)
A Short Introduction to Understanding and Supporting Children and Young People Who Self-Harm
Self-harm and suicidal behaviours are increasingly common in young people, but are often hidden. It can be hard to know what might be causing a young person to self-harm, and how to help and support... (more)
Building Happiness, Resilience and Motivation in Adolescents: A Positive Psychology Curriculum for Well-Being
Positive psychology focuses on building strengths and developing creative and positive thinking in order to boost happiness, well-being and achievement. It helps people to be motivated, maintain... (more)
What Children Need to be Happy, Confident and Successful: Step by Step Positive Psychology to Help Children Flourish
What makes children happy, confident and successful? How can you help a child to flourish? Their environment is important, but the real difference is in your hands - every adult has the tools to help... (more)
How to Give Clients the Skills to Stop Panic Attacks: Don't Forget to Breathe
How to Give Clients the Skills to Stop Panic Attacks shows how it is possible to prevent and abort a panic attack through lifestyle change and mind-body relaxation. Presenting an effective approach... (more)
Understanding Adult Survivors of Domestic Violence in Childhood: Still Forgotten, Still Hurting
Domestic violence experienced in childhood continues to have an enduring emotional impact into adulthood. The scars it leaves can impact on family lives, employment, and long-term emotional and... (more)
In Living Color: An Intercultural Approach to Pastoral Care and Counseling
The meaning of pastoral care in modern multicultural societies is challenged and re-examined from a pluralistic, global perspective in this book. Emmanuel Lartey stresses the importance of... (more)