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Effective Short-Term Counselling within the Primary Care Setting: Psychodynamic and Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy Approaches

Author(s) : Valerie Garrett

Reviews and Endorsements

'I am delighted with this book - it acknowledges the privileged position of the Primary Care counsellor to make a clinical decision, based upon a clear rationale, to use either a psychodynamic or CBT approach, or to adapt and integrate them to meet the individual needs of the patient.'
- Pat Seber, Past Chair of the Faculty of Healthcare Counsellors and Psychotherapists (FHCP)

'This thoughtful and comprehensive book, written by a counsellor with a good deal of experience in the field, will provide a useful resource for the many counsellors attached to GP surgeries, covering as it does valuable information on the practice setting and on how to adapt psychodynamic and CBT approaches to the short-term counselling which is usually on offer. Primary care counselling is one of the most accessible psychological therapies available free to a wide range of people, which makes it especially important that the counsellors who provide it have access to books which help them to develop a clear focus for their work.'
- Val Potter, past Chair of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)

'The opening chapters were like a shot of adrenaline. Written in clear concise terms. Every aspect of primary care work is addressed: the benefits of different theoretical approaches (psychodynamic and CBT), and what happens from the moment the counsellor first walks through the door to the end of a patient contract.'
- Oriana Johnson, Therapy Today March 2011 Vol. 22/Issue 2