Counselling Books
Core Competencies in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Becoming a Highly Competent and Effective Therapist
Core Competencies in Psychotherapy addresses the core competencies common to the effective practice of all psychotherapeutic approaches, and includes specific intervention competencies of the three... (more)
Effective Short-Term Counselling within the Primary Care Setting: Psychodynamic and Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy Approaches
This book covers two distinct yet related topics: the primary care setting and the counselling carried out within it, and it can be dipped into or read straight through.
Part One, using... (more)
Counselling Young Binge Drinkers
Young binge drinkers are becoming more and more common in society today. By using case studies with fictitious clients, this timely and much needed book offers the reflective thoughts and feelings of... (more)
Speaking of Dying: A Practical Guide to Using Counselling Skills in Palliative Care
Good counselling skills are often not taught to the professionals who need them most. Compassionate and tactful communication skills can make the difference between an awkward encounter with a dying... (more)
Counselling and Reflexive Research in Healthcare: Working Therapeutically with Clients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Written for counsellors working in healthcare settings who want to develop their knowledge and undertake research, this book explores the range of benefits that can be generated by undertaking... (more)
Counselling in Health Care Settings: A Handbook for Practitioners
This solution-focused guide shows how to provide effective counselling with clients who are physically ill. Combining theory, real life examples and evidence-based approaches, the authors draw on... (more)
Online Counselling: A Handbook for Practitioners
Therapy via the internet is a developing field for counsellors. This accessible guide focuses on technological and therapeutic aspects of online work, relevant across all counselling approaches. With... (more)
Key Issues for Counselling in Action: Second Edition
Effective counselling is based on a strong working relationship between counsellor and client. Building and maintaining this therapeutic alliance, demands both skill and an ability to negotiate... (more)
Counselling for Grief and Bereavement
The authors take readers step-by-step through the skills needed to facilitate the process of grief, initiate healing and promote a sense of growth. Providing a firm theoretical base, they discuss the... (more)
Online Counselling and Guidance Skills: A Practical Resource for Trainees and Practitioners
Counsellors and other professionals who provide emotional support and guidance are increasingly working online.The difference between online and face-to-face interaction with clients is vast and... (more)
Counselling Survivors of Domestic Abuse
Examines the psychobiological impact of domestic abuse within a trauma framework and explains how counsellors can facilitate recovery from domestic abuse within a secure, supportive therapeutic... (more)
The Art of Helping Others: Being Around, Being There, Being Wise
When searching for someone to help them reflect upon and improve their lives, people tend to be drawn towards those who are compassionate, committed and wise. This book is aimed at those who... (more)
The Emotionally Intelligent Social Worker
Leading author explains the theory and practice of understanding and managing emotions for effective professional practice in the human services and caring professions. Emotional intelligence is hot... (more)
Counselling and Psychotherapy with Older People: A Psychodynamic Approach: Second Revised Edition
This in-depth study of reflective therapeutic practice with older people is packed with clinical case studies and useful commentaries.It applies therapeutic skills through real life examples. Three... (more)
Caring for Muslim Patients
Muslim patients customarily have particular ways of approaching health and healthcare. This book addresses common misunderstandings and bridges cultural gaps. It includes a profile of the Islamic... (more)
A Short Introduction to Counselling Psychology
This book concisely brings together a wide range of relevant information related to the therapeutic practice of counselling psychology, written through the lens of direct practitioner experience. The... (more)
Blank Minds and Sticky Moments in Counselling: Practical Strategies and Provocative Themes: Second Edition
A guide to the common challenges which arise in everyday counselling practice. It explores what to do when you: feel stuck and are failing to help the client move forward; are faced with a client who... (more)
Principles of Multicultural Counseling and Therapy
In an era of globalization characterized by widespread migration and cultural contacts, psychologists, counselors, and other mental health professionals face a unique challenge: how does one practice... (more)
Prayer in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Exploring a Hidden Meaningful Dimension
Prayer is at the centre of most spirituality and prayer is important to many people's psychological well-being. Peter Madsen Gubi argues that philosophically, all counselling can be regarded as... (more)
Toward Effective Counseling and Psychotherapy: Training and Practice
The field of counseling and psychotherapy has for years presented the puzzling spectacle of unabating enthusiasm for forms of treatment whose effectiveness cannot be objectively demonstrated. With... (more)
The Handbook of Structured Life Review: The Structured Life Review Process
Reminiscence, life review, life story, autobiography, etc., are popular activities undertaken with or by older adults, whether for personal or therapeutic reasons. The act of reminiscing takes many... (more)
Practicing Counseling and Psychotherapy: Insights from Trainees, Supervisors, and Clients
This book provides an insiders view and understanding of the process of psychotherapy from the perspectives of actual psychotherapy trainees, their clients, and their supervisors. The authors offer a... (more)
Counseling Troubled Boys: A Guidebook for Professionals
This volume provides practitioners with clear, helpful information about the process of understanding and engaging a wide array of boys and adolescent males in counseling. It supplies case examples... (more)
Coming Out, Coming in: Nurturing the Well-Being and Inclusion of Gay Youth in Mainstream Society
Adolescence is an awkward and difficult time, emotionally and physically trying under the best of circumstances, and borderline traumatic for the majority of teens who, in one way or another, fail to... (more)
Multilingual Living: Explorations of Language and Subjectivity
How do bilingual and multilingual people think about themselves and their languages? What are the effects on family relationships of living in several languages? How does language shape our thoughts... (more)
Working with Loss, Death and Bereavement: A Guide for Social Workers
All social workers encounter complex and diverse forms of loss throughout their practice. "Working with Loss, Death and Bereavement" helps trainee and practitioners navigate these difficult... (more)
Practice Teaching: Changing Social Work
Practioners and academics draw upon their experience of working with social work students to discuss the complex issues that arise in practice teaching. The fundamental challenges related to the... (more)
Dyslexia and Counselling
While much has been written about dyslexia and literacy, little has been written about dyslexia and counselling. Good counselling remediates problems in relationships. Good teaching remediates... (more)
Feeling Queer or Queer Feelings?: Radical Approaches to Counselling Sex, Sexualities and Genders
"Feeling Queer or Queer Feelings?" presents highly innovative and contemporary ideas for counsellors, counselling and clinical psychologists and psychotherapists to consider in their work with... (more)