Counselling Books
Career Counselling: Second Edition
Explains what career counselling actually is, why people seek it, and indicates the many contexts where it is used. This second edition examines the issues typically brought to career counselling,... (more)
Workplace Counselling in the NHS: Person-Centred Dialogues
This book has been written specifically to meet the needs of counsellors and trainers working with the National Health Service. It will also provide useful insights for doctors, nurses, and managers... (more)
Young People in Care and Criminal Behaviour
Society holds a popular perception that links children in public care with criminal activity, but this connection is largely assumed. This book addresses the lack of evidence supporting this... (more)
Mental Health Issues and the Media: An Introduction for Health Professionals
Our ideas about mental health and illness can be informed by personal experiences but are most often formed by the prevailing attitudes of society. A wide range of contemporary media help create... (more)
Adlerian Lifestyle Counseling: Practice and Research
Lifestyle counseling is an approach that draws heavily from Adlerian Individual Psychology, focusing on the unique total behavior pattern of a patient, including thinking, feeling, and acting, across... (more)
Alzheimer: A Journey Together
Francesco Caracciolo was a successful architect and, with his wife Federica, also worked as a photo reporter for the United Nations, travelling extensively throughout Africa and Asia. A diagnosis of... (more)
Counselling for Eating Disorders in Men: Person-centred Dialogues
According to the Eating Disorders Association there is a general lack of recognition of eating disorders in men, making it more difficult for male patients to access specialist services, although... (more)
Psychoanalytic Theory for Social Work Practice: Thinking Under Fire
Written by practicing social workers and social work educators this text analyses psychoanalytic and psychosocial approaches to social work and relates them to current practices and values. Focusing... (more)
Counselling Victims of Warfare: Person-Centred Dialogues
In the United Kingdom since 1987 38,000 people have been referred to The Medical Foundation for specialist psychological treatment relating to warfare, and in the past 80 years 75,000 military... (more)
Enhancing Self-Esteem: A Self-Esteem Training Package for Individuals with Disabilities
Maintaining healthy levels of self-esteem is key to leading a positive and fulfilled life, but for many people with a disability it can be difficult when faced with the additional challenges they... (more)
Counselling for Obesity: Person-Centred Dialogues
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... (more)
Counselling Supervision in Organisations: Professional and Ethical Dilemmas Explored
This book brings together the cultures of counselling and supervision and their relation to organisational cultures, providing an understanding of the employment processes for counselling supervisors... (more)
Speaking the Unspeakable: The Ethics of Dual Relationships in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Are dual relationships always detrimental? "Speaking the Unspeakable" provides an in-depth exploration of client-practitioner dual relationships, offering critical discussion and sustained narrative... (more)
Guided Imagery: Creative Interventions in Counselling and Psychotherapy
"Guided Imagery" is a unique, practical guide to using imagery in one-to-one therapeutic work with clients. Through numerous examples drawn from their own experience, the authors show how the... (more)
Gestalt Therapy: History, Theory and Practice
Gestalt Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice is a basic, introductory text, written by major Gestalt theorists, that will engage those new to Gestalt therapy. Editors Ansel Woldt and Sarah M. Toman... (more)
Relationship Counselling: Sons and Their Mothers: A Person-Centred Dialogue
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,... (more)
Sex and Sexuality: Questions and Answers
This book bridges the gap between the counsellor and the specialist sex therapist, by providing answers to questions raised by patients or clients about sex, gender and sexuality. It covers... (more)
The Abuse of Older People: A Training Manual for Detection and Prevention
This handbook guides professionals in the welfare sector through interactive examples of the abuse of older people set in institutional and community placements, to increase the development of their... (more)
Risk and Risk Taking in Health and Social Welfare
Mike Titterton offers an innovative model of risk work, arguing that a thoughtful risk taking approach in health and social care can lead to empowerment and greater independence for vulnerable... (more)
Assessment in Counselling: Theory, Process and Decision Making
This text helps clarify the nature and purpose of assessment in counselling. It explores the theoretical underpinnings of assessment across the core therapeutic schools and addresses critical... (more)
Testing and Assessment in Counseling Practice:
The purpose of this work is to show how key personality, cognitive, behavioural and vocational tests and assessment procedures can be used by counsellors in their work with clients. The contributors... (more)
Handbook of Racial-Cultural Psychology and Counseling:
This two-volume handbook offers a thorough treatment of the concepts and theoretical developments concerning how to apply cultural knowledge in theory and practice to various racial and cultural... (more)
Practical Counselling Skills: An Integrative Approach
This book is a comprehensive, easy-to-read introduction to personal counselling, written for student counsellors and new counsellors, and those who train/supervise them. The book contains many... (more)
Difference and Diversity in Counselling: Contemporary Psychodynamic Perspectives
Psychodynamic counseling is rooted in psychoanalytic tradition. It relates to a rich wealth of material that helps us to understand the functioning of the human psyche, the stages of human... (more)
The Essential Skills for Setting Up a Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice
Many practitioners consider setting up in private practice at some point in their career, whether full-time or alongside other employment. This book provides comprehensive yet accessible coverage of... (more)
Domestic Violence: Handbook for Healthcare Professionals
Health care practitioners have daily contact with patients whose health is damaged by domestic violence and who often face risks of further and more extreme injury. This title concerns the NHS... (more)
Multilingual Living: Explorations of Language & 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)