Counselling and Counselling Psychology: A Critical Examination
Book Details
- Publisher : PCCS Books
- Published : 2013
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 160
- Category :
Counselling - Catalogue No : 34772
- ISBN 13 : 9781906254582
- ISBN 10 : 1906254583
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This book examines fairly but radically the claims and practices of counsellors and counselling psychologists using both macro-critical and micro-critical lenses. Beginning with the deep context of human distress, it sets the scene for key areas for critique, including a focus on the most significant originators of the talking therapy models. The central theoretical concepts of the major approaches are examined afresh in some depth. Components of everyday counselling practice are placed under a critical microscope. Research-based claims are exposed to renewed scrutiny and the professional aspirations of counselling and counselling psychology are not spared a similar critical treatment. A review of relevant socio-economic and philosophical critiques with possible responses rounds off this important appraisal of a psychological practice that has become, for good and/or otherwise, an unavoidable feature of our lives.
About the Author(s)
Colin Feltham is Emeritus Professor of Critical Counselling Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP Senior Registered Practitioner and former co-editor of the British Journal for Guidance and Counselling.
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