Counselling Books
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)
Counselling and Psychotherapy with Refugees
This concise book is an essential tool to help counsellors and psychotherapists understand and engage with the experiences of persecution, violence and exile often faced by refugees. (more)
Managing High Risk Offenders in the Community:
Risk Management of Sex Offenders in the Community attempts to answer questions about the nature of the risk posed by sex offenders, and the most effective means of managing that risk in the community. (more)
Responding to a Serious Mental Health Problem: Person-Centred Dialogues
This book uses narrative to describe powerfully what is happening, interspersed with the counsellors thoughts and reflections. Sessions of supervision are also described and linked to what is... (more)
Counselling for Depression
Due in February 2005. A highly practical guide for therapists and those who are seeking to help depressed people. Paul Lockley shows how to employ techniques which open up life again for the... (more)
Social Work Supervision:
Social work supervision in large part determines the job satisfaction of social workers and thus the quality of the service provided. (more)
Setting Up New Services in the NHS: Just Add Water
This guide for setting up a clinical service in the National Health Service is based on the author's experience of leading a nationally funded project to develop two new specialist services in... (more)
Counselling in General Practice:
Psychological and psychiatric disorders are the third most common diagnosis (more)
Co-Counselling: The Theory and Practice of Re-evaluation Counselling
This comprehensive account of Co-Counselling theory presents valuable insights into subjects including human vulnerability to distress, the societal context of emotional problems and emotional... (more)
Supervision: Questions and Answers for Counsellors and Therapists
Supervision is a prerequisite for all counsellors, and for most psychotherapists, yet until recently it has been assumed that any experienced counsellor or therapist could become a supervisor without... (more)
Voices of Bereavement: Casebook for Grief Counsellors
Built on the premise that individuals and family members can be helped through their bereavement experience and that there are specific skills and interventions that guide a counsellor in this work,... (more)
Women Who Offend
Presenting research that should underpin effective practice with women who offend, this work aims to help professionals meet the needs of this group as well as providing a theoretical resource for... (more)
Biblical Stories for Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Sourcebook
This essential sourebook applies the age-old wisdom of stories from the Hebrew Bible to current psychological issues. From the familiar to the obscure, these stories can help us better understand... (more)
Asian Perspectives in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Illustrated by stimulating case studies, the theoretical knowledge and practical advice presented in Asian Perspectives in Counselling and Psychotherapy will be invaluable reading to all practising... (more)
Difference and Discrimination in Psychotherapy and Counselling:
Difference, prejudice and discrimination are issues which all counsellors and psychotherapists need to address as part of their personal and professional development. Designed to support training on... (more)
Clinical Counselling in Voluntary and Community Settings:
Clinical Counselling in Community and Voluntary Settings provides an overview of the development of counselling in a world of managed care, where resources are tight and professionals are stretched... (more)