Counselling Books
Scapegoats: Transferring blame
This work examines the process of scapegoating from the perspectives of victims and perpetrators, tracing and comparing its development from earliest times as a rite of atonement to the modern forms... (more)
Models of collaboration: A guide for mental health professionals working with health care practitioners
A guide for Mental Health Professionals working with Health Care Practitioners (more)
Person-Centred Counselling and Christian Spirituality: The Secular and the Holy
Offers a history of hysteria that weaves its well-known features - repressed sexual ideas; indifference to conversion; over-identification with the other - into the hysteric form. Through a... (more)
Supervising Counsellors: Issues of Responsibility
A practical and insightful guide to the responsibilities facing all those involved in supervising practitioners and trainees. Drawing together contributions and new research from those at the... (more)
Risk Assessment in Social Care and Social Work
This text outlines the theoretical issues behind the decisions, processes and organizations involved in risk assessment. It considers implications for future policy, drawing on the full range of... (more)
Depression:
For everyone who gets depressed and for those who have to live or work with people who suffer from depression. This book pinpoints three main roots of psychologically caused depression - self-blame,... (more)
Training the counsellor: An integrative model
Drawing on many years of practical knowledge, this book offers down-to-earth guidance and up-to-date information on key issues in counsellor training, examining and consultancy, with examples of live... (more)
The Counselling approach to careers guidance
This volume uses detailed case material to show how counselling strategies can be used with clients seeking careers guidance. It offers advice on structuring interviews, and discusses important... (more)
Saying goodbye: Stories of separation between care staff and people with learning disabilities
An in-depth exploration of processes that occur when carestaff and people with learning disabilities separate. The book draws upon qualitative research and interviews with clients and staff drawing... (more)
Research in Social Care and Social Welfare: Issues and Debates for Practice
This text explores the links between research, evidence-based pratice and policy in social care and social welfare. Basing their chapters in case- study material, the contributors examine the issues... (more)
Solution-Focused Stress Counselling
This volume is essentially practical in tone and reflects the author's commitment to demystifying therapeutic processes and making therapy more accessible to people who are under-supported within... (more)
Child sexual assault: Feminist perspectives
This work re-introduces a feminist analysis of child sexual assault. The introductory chapter provides an overview of historical developments whilst following chapters offer critical analyses of... (more)
Care matters: Concepts, practice and research in health and social care
How can we make sense of the varying concepts of care and of the many forms care takes in practice? How can `good' care be defined and evaluated? This book draws upon a range of academic disciplines... (more)
Welfare, exclusion and political agency:
This text develops key topics in social work and social policy relating to exclusion, social divisions and control in welfare. (more)