Richard Bryant Jefferies: 17 books
by Richard Bryant-Jefferies
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2001
At the heart of Richard Bryant-Jefferies' work with problem drinkers is his belief in the power and effectiveness of the person-centred approach to counselling. He suggests that many alcohol problems develop out of, or are connected with, relationship difficulties. He highlights the importance of...
by richard bryant-jefferies
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Is life some chance occurrence on one large rock spinning around an insignificant sun on the edge of the universe? Or is there a larger picture to life, a greater unseen purpose?
From cosmic evolution to human diversity, life is like a jigsaw of many pieces evolving to find their potential...
Counselling Young People
Person-Centered Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
"Richard has caught wonderfully in this text the sensitivity and delicacies of therapeutic interaction as well as the complex processes through which young people have to steer in their development towards adulthood. Richard’s important and engaging text combines believable stories of young...
Counselling for Death and Dying
Person-Centred Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book contains forewords by Sheila Haugh and Grace H Chickadonz respectively - Senior Lecturer Psychotherapy, Centre for Psychological Therapies, Leeds Metropolitan University; Center for Human Encouragement, Rochester, New York, USA. What happens to a person emotionally, psychologically and spiritually...
Alive and Cutting
A Teenager's Journey in Therapy to Understanding Her Self-Harm
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Alive and Cutting takes you into the world of self-harming behaviour. Katie had a difficult childhood. Neglected and alone she spent much of her time consoling herself as best she could with her doll and teddy bear. Taken into care and fostered, she was then bullied at school. Later in childhood she...
Counselling a Survivor of Child Sexual Abuse
A Person-Centred Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book provides a vivid insight into working with a client who is a survivor of child sexual abuse. Using fictitious dialogue it illustrates the person-centered approach and relates it to how memories can surface, and the impact that this can have on the client and counselor. It provides a deep...
Counselling for Eating Disorders in Women
A Person-Centered Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Counseling for Eating Disorders in Women focuses on women whose eating patterns have generated side-effects on other aspects of their lives such as work, health and family. Women with problems connected with over-eating, under-eating, and poor eating form a significant proportion of counselors’...
Problem Drinking
A Person-Centred Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
This book provides a new realism in understanding the world of alcohol counselling. It uses dialogue to enable the reader to appreciate the nature of counselling a person with an alcohol problem through the application of person-centred counselling theory. It provides deep insights into what goes...
Relationship Counselling - Sons and Their Mothers
A Person-Centred Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Young men trying to resolve traumatic experiences and relationship issues with their mothers is not an area that has attracted a great deal of attention, and yet it is not uncommon.
Peter is 28, still living at home and feeling ‘like I just don’t have a life I can call my own.’ As he...
Counselling for Obesity
Person-Centred Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
In The United Kingdom over 30,000 deaths a year are caused by obesity. Counsellors, trainees and other healthcare and social care professionals need to understand and experience the diverse and challenging aspects of this rapidly developing issue. By including fictitious supervision as well as counselling...
Person-Centred Counselling Supervision
Personal and Professional
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Each preceding book in the Living Therapy series provides a demonstration of the application of the person-centred approach to counselling and psychotherapy to clients presenting with particular issues. To complement these, this book focuses more on the supervisory element of the therapeutic process....
Counselling for Progressive Disability
Person-Centred Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Coming to terms with a progressive disabling disease can be a struggle, not only for the personal nature of pain, but the stressful impact that it can have on family and friends. This book sets out to provide the reader with an experience of working with a person suffering progressive disability,...
Time Limited Therapy in Primary Care
A Person-Centred Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
"Many counsellors who work in primary care find it difficult to explain to colleagues in the primary care team what they actually do with clients behind the closed door of their room. In this book the author brings to life in a gripping way what really does go on when a counsellor sees a patient...
Responding to a Serious Mental Health Problem
Person-Centred Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
This book uses narrative to describe powerfully what is happening, interspersed with the counsellor’s thoughts and reflections. Sessions of supervision are also described and linked to what is occurring in the therapy. The first part of the book focuses on a client struggling to cope with her son...
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