Counselling Books
Clinical Supervision - A Systems Approach
A progressive book in which the author presents a new model of clinical supervision that embraces different theoretical approaches to counselling, moving away from models that are limited to only one... (more)
Developing Cognitive-behavioural Counselling
The authors develop the cognitive-behavioural counselling approach by offering new conceptualizations of many common client problems. They suggest that effective interventions need to take account of... (more)
Client Assessment
What information will help you assess the therapeutic needs of a client? Could you identify a suicidal client? How can you tell whether or not you are working with appropriate clients? Answering... (more)
Developing Person-centred Counselling: Second Edition
Designed to help counsellors improve their skills within the person-centred approach, the second edition has been fully revised and updated taking account of developments in person-centred practice.... (more)
Therapists' Dilemmas
This collection of interviews examines crucial issues of uncertainty which leading British and American therapists have encountered during the course of their work. This revised edition includes a... (more)
Experiences of Counselling in Action
What is the experience of counselling from the perspectives of both client and counsellor? What can be learned for the practice of counselling from an understanding of how it feels to be a client or... (more)
Training and Supervision for Counselling in Action
This accessible book explores the issues involved in both the training and supervision of counsellors and in the preparation of those who are to undertake supervisory and training roles. The number... (more)
Personal and Professional Development for Counsellors
This book explores just what is meant by personal and profession-
Rational Emotive Behavioural Counselling in Action: Third Edition
A brand new edition of this highly popular guide to a much used approach. Combining the theoretical with the practical, the book provides an accessible guide for newcomers to this form of... (more)
Person-centred Counselling Training
Person-centred counselling probably requires more training - and a greater intensity of training - than most other mainstream counselling approaches, but until now no one book has concentrated solely... (more)
Learning and Teaching in Social Work: Towards Reflective Practice
Addresses contemporary themes in the post-professional education of social workers and related professionals. The book focuses on the nature of professional education, its changing epistemological... (more)
Making Sense of Social Work: Psychodynamics, Systems and Practice
A reassessment of psychodynamics and systems theories in contemporary social work practice. The authors discuss the application of these theories to direct work with service users, to practitioners'... (more)
Helping the Client: A Creative Practical Guide
A synthesis of the conceptual and the practical, this book is aimed at counsellors and therapists who wish to develop their repertoire of skills and methods for helping a client. 192 pages. (more)
Counselling and Psychotherapy in Primary Health Care: A Psychodynamic Approach
From small beginnings in the 1970s, counselling in primary care has now become an established area of practice. It is well recognised that a significant proportion of patients in primary health care... (more)
Long-Term Counselling
This work encourages trainee counsellors and practitioners to think about long-term work, identifying working parameters and issues of definition. It focuses on managing the work, and discusses the... (more)
Person-centred counselling: An experiential approach
A presentation of ideas about person-centred theory and practice, all grounded in self-awareness of both client and counsellor. Emphasis is placed on the counsellor / client relationship in areas... (more)
Counselling and Psychotherapy in Private Practice
Explores the conflicts of running a business which has to be ethical and responsive to clients' needs - but at the same time has to be successful and profitable. This book provides advice on... (more)
The Needs of Counsellors and Psychotherapists
In this powerful book, leading counsellors and psychotherapists discuss the emotional, physical, social and professional needs of people who work, or would like to work, in a therapeutic setting, and... (more)
Developing Psychodynamic Counselling
By integrating theory and context, Brendan McLoughlin explores the opportunities for counsellors to develop their own practice of psychodynamic counselling. He encourages readers to look carefully at... (more)
Transcultural Counselling in Action: Second Edition
This revised second edition provides a clear and practical guide to help counsellors and other professional helpers give effective, sensitive, and appropriate support to clients from cultures other... (more)
Decisional Dialogues in a Cultural Context: Structured Exercises
Cultivating sensitivity to ethnographic, demographic, status and affiliation differences between people, this practical and creative resource provides a workbook approach to learning interviewing... (more)
Pregnancy and abortion counselling
Aimed at professionals in the field, this work provides a review of the social, moral and legal issues surrounding contraception and abortion and offers guidelines for establishing good practice.... (more)
The Making of a Counsellor
In The Making of a Counsellor case studies illustrate work done with 'impossible' clients; other essays about orphans and debtors, accountancy trainees and expatriate employees explore new ways of... (more)
Counselling Young People
Based on the author's experience as psychotherapist and counsellor, this book provides an approachable introduction to the field of counselling young people for anyone undertaking counselling within... (more)
Counselling heroin and other drug users
320p Paperback 1995