Counselling category: 1931 books
Asking the Right Questions 2
Talking about sexual orientation and gender identity in mental health, counselling and addiction settings
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2007
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual, two-spirited, intersex and queer (LGBTTTIQ) people have specific life factors that relate to substance use and/or mental health problems. These factors include coming out, gender transition, societal oppression, loss of family support, isolation,...
Relational Depth
New Perspectives and Developments
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
As a therapist, have you ever experienced moments of absolute trust, understanding and empathy with a client? Such moments of relational depth can feel like a therapeutic breakthrough for the therapist. But what is the client's experience? And what does the research tell us about the potential therapeutic...
The Importance of Suffering
The Value and Meaning of Emotional Discontent
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
In this book James Davies considers emotional suffering as part and parcel of what it means to live and develop as a human being, rather than as a mental health problem requiring only psychiatric, antidepressant or cognitive treatment. This book therefore offers a new perspective on emotional discontent...
Woman's Relationship with Herself
Gender, Foucault and Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2005
Woman's Relationship with Herself explores the relationship women have with themselves and demonstrates how this relationship is often dominated by debilitating practices of self-surveillance. Employing Foucault's notion of panoptical power, Helen O'Grady illuminates the link between this kind of...
by Dee Danchev, Alistair Ross
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Research Ethics for Counsellors, Nurses & Social Workers is designed to help you make the best start in your research career. With ethical implications and considerations arising at each stage of the research process, engaging with the wide range of issues and ideas can often prove a challenge....
Working with Suicidal Individuals
A Guide to Providing Understanding, Assessment and Support
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
*Highly Commended in the Psychiatry Category of the 2011 BMA Book Awards*
Working with Suicidal Individuals provides a comprehensive guide to understanding suicide, the assessment of risk, and the treatment and management of suicidal individuals.
It begins by covering the theory behind...
La Relazione che cura
Gestalt Counselling e Art Therapy
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Uno strumento utile a orientare quanti desiderano intraprendere percorsi di crescita personale. Nello specifico l'autrice si muove nel contesto della psicoterapia Gestalt, il cui obiettivo è rendere l'individuo capace di recuperare l'equilibrio perduto a motivo di un disagio che in tenera età lo...
by Andrew Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
This is a book about helping people: not so much about the issues that people bring but the process of helping. That means it is as much about the helper as the helping. As carers, we have the potential to see others helped and sometimes radically changed for the better, but that does not always happen....
by Bob Erens, Laura Mitchell, Jim Orford
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Despite a rapid increase in the availability of many forms of gambling, there has been little serious study in the literature of the likely effects. This book seeks to fill that gap by reviewing what is known about gambling in Britain and studying work on the nature, prevalence and possible causes...
Challenges in Professional Supervision
Current Themes and Models for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Challenges in Professional Supervision draws on the latest research and theory to explore issues, trends and developments in supervision work.
The provision of excellent supervision is strongly linked to improved performance and staff retention. In this book, supervision is examined across...
Conscience and Critic
The selected works of Keith Tudor
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Conscience and Critic: The Selected Works of Keith Tudor brings together 35 years of Keith Tudor’s finest contributions to the field of mental health. Covering a wide range of subjects that encompass psychotherapy, social policy and positive mental health or wellbeing, Keith reflects on practice...
When Death Enters the Therapeutic Space
Existential Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Counselling
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Although it is a natural and inescapable part of life, death is a subject that is often neglected in psychotherapeutic literature and training. In When Death Enters the Therapeutic Space Laura Barnett and her contributors offer us insights into working with mortality in the therapeutic encounter.
Taking...
Speaking the Unspeakable
The Ethics of Dual Relationships in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Are dual relationships always detrimental? Speaking the Unspeakable provides an in-depth exploration of client-practitioner dual relationships, offering critical discussion and sustained narrative on thinking about and being in dual relationships.
Lynne Gabriel draws on the experiences of both...
Becoming a Therapist
A Manual for Personal and Professional Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Personal development is fundamental to professional development and therapeutic practice. Until now, the unstructured personal or reflective journal has by default become the sole vehicle for recording reflection through training. Becoming a Therapist is a unique practical manual, facilitating the...