Counselling Books
Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Many counselling and psychotherapy researchers are suspicious of the pronouncements of practitioners because they are not backed up by research. Similarly, practitioners tend to ignore research... (more)
Workplace Counselling
A practical and accessible book in which the author provides core guidance on how to operate best in an employee-counsellor role - and how to tackle the issues such a role raises - focusing on the... (more)
Counselling by Telephone
This book explores the essential skills needed to carry out effective telephone counselling - such as welcoming and establishing a relationship with clients; listening and responding; understanding... (more)
Developing Gestalt Counselling
Describing contemporary integrative Gestalt counselling and psychotherapy, this book addresses 30 key issues which will help both trainee and practising counsellors examine and improve crucial areas... (more)
Handbook of Counselling in Organizations
The book provides a thorough and detailed examination of the key areas and concerns of counselling in organizations. It is a practical and accessible work and will be invaluable to students and... (more)
Counselling: the BACP Counselling Reader: Vol. 1
This comprehensive and stimulating Reader draws together key material which has been published in Counselling, the Journal of the British Association for Counselling, in recent years. Combining... (more)
Training counsellors: The assessment of competence
Shows how competence can be assessed in counsellor training, offering material for counselling trainers to promote good practice in the profession. The text forms a summary of available research on... (more)
Inside counselling: Becoming and being a professional counsellor
An exploration of the experience of becoming and being a counsellor and engaging in therapeutic process. Written in a novel-like form, the book enters the internal, subjective world of counselling... (more)
Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure
An engaging account of Toad's experience with transactional analysis counselling, which brings back to life the characters from "The wind in the willows" all over again. 128 pages. (more)
A Spiritual Strategy for Counseling and Psychotherapy: Second Revised Edition
Noting that spiritual perspectives have been excluded from psychological theory and practice of psychotherapy, this text proposes that the time is ripe for the inclusion of a spiritual strategy in... (more)
Developing Transactional Analysis Counselling
This concise workbook provides 30 practical suggestions to help practising counsellors develop and enhance their Transactional Analysis (TA) counselling skills. After a brief introductory section... (more)
New Directions in Counselling
This text responds to the major changes affecting counselling - national and European legislation, the drive for greater professionalism, accountability, competency and multiculturalism. The book... (more)
We are all living with HIV: How to set policies and guidelines for the workplace
350p Paperback 1997
Swift to Hear: Facilitating Skills in Listening and Responding
The author describes the development of basic listening and responding skills, and the process of communication which is at the heart of the helping interview. Numerous exercises make this an... (more)
Integrity and Change: Mental Health in the Market Place
This study examines how workers in the caring professions might preserve their integrity and ability, and reflect and act purposefully in the face of change in the structures and culture of public... (more)
Handbook of Counselling: Second Edition
This revised and expanded edition of the text provides a guide for counsellors and those using counselling skills in other professions. The contributors, all experienced practitioners, explore the... (more)
Fritz Perls
Fritz Perls was the co-founder of Gestalt Therapy, which is based on a holistic view of people and their relationship to the environment, and which remains one of the most influential approaches in... (more)
Counselling for psychosomatic problems
A practical guide to counselling clients who present with physical symptoms, but where psychological issues or problems are causing or maintaining those symptoms. The author examines the terminology... (more)
The Listening Reader: Fiction and Poetry for Counsellors and Psychotherapists
Those whose profession involves listening to others' stories are aware of the relevance of imaginative literature to their work. This book serves as a guide to resources and texts available, and to... (more)
Developing the Practice of Counselling
This volume contains 30 useful hints and reminders to help both trainee and practising counsellors examine and improve key areas of their work. The book encourages counsellors to focus on areas that... (more)
Developing Counsellor Supervision
Supervision is a professional and ethical necessity for all counsellors, providing them with consultative and supportive aid while protecting clients from potential abuse - yet relatively little has... (more)
Counselling People with Communication Problems
A practical and accessible step-by-step guide for those working with people who experience disorders of speech, language, voice and fluency. It emphasizes how counselling plays an increasing part in... (more)
Counselling for Family Problems
The author places helping families in a traditional counselling framework and maintains that successful family counselling is a combination of several elements, including: working with the family's... (more)
Working with Schizophrenia
A practical handbook for professionals working with schizophrenia, concerned with promoting understanding of their experiences and developing effective ways to facilitate them to maintain a... (more)
Fostering healing and growth: A psychoanalytic social work approach
In this work, a varied group of practitioners share their understanding of an ever-expanding body of psychoanalytic theory, and demonstrate the ways in which they have translated this theory into... (more)
Attachment theory for social work practice
This work addresses the needs of social workers in understanding and assessing the nature and origins of disturbed social relationships, and examines issues emerging from and around attachment... (more)