Counselling Books
Transforming social work practice: Postmodern critical perspectives
Offers new strategies for social workers concerned with political action and social justice. It explores ways of developing practice frameworks, paradigms and principles which take adavantage of the... (more)
Practice and research in social work: Postmodern feminist perspectives
Appraising key issues in the contested fields of postmodernism and feminism, this text focuses on applications in relation to practice, research and education in social work. 201 pages. (more)
Absent Fathers?
Discussing the social implications of absentee fathers, this volume provides a text for undergraduates in social policy and should also be of interest to professionals concerned with family breakdown... (more)
Ethical Practice and the Abuse of Power in Social Responsibility: Leave No Stone Unturned
Concerned with ethical practice, this text presents the stories of individuals form all levels of the social and legal systems. Topics covered include: accountability and confidentiality; system... (more)
Social work practices: Contemporary perspectives on change:
This book asks how social workers should be responding to the crises besetting the welfare states as we enter the 21st century. It also poses the question whether postmodern theory could provide some... (more)
Residential Child Care: International Perspectives on Links With Families and Peers
This book uses examples of good practice and innovatory ideas from the UK and abroad to show how encouraging families to maintain an active role in the welfare of their children in care is vitally... (more)
Defense Mechanisms in the Counseling Process
Demonstrates why clients in therapy resist changes and the mechanisms and devices they use to defend against therapeutic progress. It also shows how therapists can identify and work with such... (more)
Mental Health and Social Work
Examining the theory and practice of work with people with mental health problems, this volume makes an appraisal of policy and organization, based on a discussion of the circumstances of this client... (more)
Issues in Foster Care: Policy, Practice and Research
Drawing on a combination of research and professional experience, this book considers the central features of the development of a responsive fostering service. 160 pages. (more)
Social work with black children and their families:
Part of a series, this is a guide to developments in welfare services for black families in the early 1980s. It describes practical ways of meeting the black population's needs and the implications... (more)
In and out of care: The experiences of children, parents and social workers
A unique insight into the workings of the child care system, based on the testimony of children, parents, and workers in the field. 150 pages. (more)
Community care in practice:
The patterns and policies for community care which have been phased in since April 1991 present both a stimulus and a challenge. This book is a collection of essays which provide an introduction to... (more)
Children in care revisited
The author follows the lives of people from her initial contact with them as a social worker to the present, some twenty years later. 194 pages. (more)
Black children in the public care system:
The author has based her study on empirical data collected from a survey of an inner-city Local Authority Social Services Department. Over 500 case histories have been analyzed and evidence gathered... (more)
Integrative and Eclectic Counselling and Psychotherapy
An examination of the issues and ideas surrounding integration and eclecticism in a therapeutic context, and a detailed account of a range of approaches in use. Contributors introduce and explain the... (more)
Counselling couples and families: A person-centred approach
In this counselling handbook, the person-centred approach is integrated with the theories and practice of counselling couples and families. The author identifies issues specific to relational... (more)
Advocacy, Counselling and Mediation in Casework: Processes of Empowerment
Advocacy, counselling and mediation are compared in this text as social processes of social empowerment. The contributors examine the cultural and organizational contexts in which each of these media... (more)
Sexuality and Women with Learning Disabilities
A study of women with mild or moderate learning disabilities, investigating these women's experiences of sexual life, derived from research based on interviews with the women themselves. 288 pages. (more)
Trauma and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
This is the first comprehensive reader in a new area of counselling. It brings together well-known authors on traumatic stress responses and good counselling practice, as well as new material... (more)
Disability: controversial debates and psychosocial perspectives
An essential guide for anyone working with or studying disability, mental health, and learning difficulties. The book examines a range of theories and practices in relation to disability. The focus... (more)
The Shadow and the Counsellor: Working with the Darker Aspects of the Person, the Role and the Profession
Introducing the concept of "shadow", this text examines how it comes into being and its impact within counselling. It considers how the counsellor's work may be affected by incorporating material... (more)
Practical counselling and helping:
A practical, jargon-free guide to counselling, this text offers clear information about how counselling and helping may be put into practice, whilst acknowledging and discussing its limitations. 147... (more)
Challenges to counselling and psychotherapy:
A radical challenge to the foundations of therapy. The author's ultimate target is not counselling, but the abuse of professionalization and our current deity - consumerism. 192 pages. (more)
Counselling and Supporting Children in Distress
Addresses the key issues and problems faced by adults involved in the care of children. 163 pages. (more)
Understanding the counselling relationship
This balanced, informative, and clear book puts the therapeutic - or in this case, counselling - relationship into context, and will be of great interest and value to everyone training or practising... (more)
Controversies in Psychotherapy and Counselling
Issues in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, counselling, clinical psychology and related therapies are not necessarily clear-cut. This work looks at theoretical, clinical, professional and social issues... (more)
Lifemaps of People with Learning Disabilities
The use of lifemaps with people who have learning disabilities has proved particularly effective for a better understanding of their emotional perspectives and needs. This book presents fourteen... (more)
Clinical Counselling in Primary Care
Looking at the solutions that practitioners have developed to meet the challenges of the medical setting, this text covers a range of clinical issues - such as the therapeutic framework, seeing the... (more)
Counselling women in violent relationships
This practical and comprehensive handbook guides the reader through the reality of the serious and very common problem of violence against women. 200 pages. (more)
Clinical Counselling in Context: An Introduction
176pp In the light of the late-1990s professionalization of counselling, this text examines the hypothesis that counselling theory and practice is altered by the specific organizational context in... (more)