Counselling Books
Person-Centered Approaches for Counselors
Integrating common factors research and practice, Person-Centered Approaches for Counselors highlights the deep social justice roots of the approaches and shows counselors in training and experienced... (more)
Counseling Across Cultures: Seventh Edition
*The book is edited by pioneers in the field who helped found the multicultural movement in the 1980s.
* A useful five-part, 24-chapter format provides balanced coverage.
* Broad coverage... (more)
Making the Most of Counselling and Psychotherapy Placements
Struggling to secure the right counselling or psychotherapy placement for you? Unsure of how to deal with complex challenges or how to make sure you get the most out of your placement? Then you have... (more)
The Beginner's Guide to Counselling and Psychotherapy: Second Edition
Are your students interested in the field of counselling and psychotherapy or just starting out in their training? If they are trying to get to grips with the many different approaches and decide... (more)
Islamic Counselling: An Introduction to Theory and Practice
Islamic counselling is a form of counselling which incorporates spirituality into the therapeutic process. Until now there has been little material available on the subject with no one agreed... (more)
Interacting Selves: Systemic Solutions for Personal and Professional Development in Counselling and Psychotherapy
The counselling and psychotherapy professions have experienced a rapid growth and expansion throughout Europe, and internationally. State regulation of these professional practices has required... (more)
The Content of Psychological Distress: Addressing Complex Personal Experience
The Content of Psychological Distress makes the case for focusing psychological attention on the content of people's distressing experience. The growing demand for counselling and therapy in... (more)
Mental Health Policy and Practice
This highly regarded text offers a clear and considered guide to modern mental health policy and practice. Completely up to date, it highlights key changes and developments for today's students and... (more)
Counseling for Wellness and Prevention: Helping People Become Empowered in Systems and Settings
Counseling for Wellness and Prevention brings Preventative Counseling, one of prevention's founding texts, firmly into the twenty-first century. The book thoroughly updates and significantly expands... (more)
Social Constructionism: Third Edition
Now in its third edition, this successful book introduces students to the area of social science theory and research known as social constructionism. Using a variety of examples from everyday... (more)
Principles-Based Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Method of Levels Approach
Many current approaches to the treatment of psychological problems focus on specific disorders and techniques that are purported to be effective and distinct. Recent advances in knowledge and theory,... (more)
Counselling Skills for Becoming a Wiser Practitioner: Tools, Techniques and Reflections for Building Practice Wisdom
People learn mainly from experience and from doing. This book conveys the reality of the counselling room and provides helpful tips and techniques to enable practitioners to develop and refine their... (more)
Dyslexia and Mental Health: Helping People to Overcome Depressive, Self-Harming and Other Adverse Emotional Coping Strategies
Dyslexia is a complex condition that affects not only learning but every part of life. Experience or fear of social stigma can lead people with dyslexia to camouflage the difficulties they face, to... (more)
Improving Mental Health Through Social Support: Building Positive and Empowering Relationships
Social support is the everyday assistance offered by family, friends, neighbours and colleagues, as well as the foundations of support in a range of non-clinical settings, and plays a vital role in a... (more)
Spiritual Accompaniment and Counselling: Journeying with Psyche and Soul
The contributors, who each work with spiritual issues, either explicitly as spiritual directors or accompaniers, or as an implicit part of their therapeutic work, offer a psychologically-informed... (more)
The Heart of Counseling: Counseling Skills Through Therapeutic Relationships: Second Edition
More than any other text on the market, The Heart of Counseling is effective in helping students to understand the importance of therapeutic relationships and to develop the qualities that make the... (more)
Embedding Counselling and Communication Skills: A Relational Skills Model
Embedding Counselling and Communication Skills provides step-by-step learning for those looking to gain theoretical and practical understanding of using counselling and communication skills within... (more)
Psychoanalytic Approaches for Counselors
Using a common factors approach, this book will help counselors-in-training consider theories from the perspective of the client, and what makes sense to him/her. It will show that theory and... (more)
Working With Risk in Counselling and Psychotherapy
The wide-ranging contexts in which counselling and psychotherapy is now practiced means clients present with a range of risks that therapists have to respond to. Risk is an ever-present issue for... (more)
Therapeutic Communication: Developing Professional Skills: Second Edition
This text can be used in all clinical skills courses and practical across the human services. It is designed to teach students the fundamental interviewing tools (e.g., empathy, reflection,... (more)
Nelson-Jones' Theory and Practice of Counselling and Psychotherapy: Sixth Edition
This sixth edition provides an essential introduction to the major theoretical approaches in counselling and psychotherapy today. Comprehensive and accessible, it now includes two brand new chapters... (more)
Assessment and Case Formulation in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Understanding why and how you go about constructing a viable assessment and case formulation can be a daunting, and often difficult, task for trainee counsellors and psychotherapists engaging with... (more)
An Introduction to the Therapeutic Relationship in Counselling and Psychotherapy
The therapeutic relationship is considered to be the most significant factor in achieving positive therapeutic change. As such, it is essential that trainee and practising therapists are able to... (more)
Understanding Person-Centred Counselling: A Personal Journey
This book provides a key introduction to the theory, concepts and practice of the person-centred approach, through the lens of the practitioner's experience and personal development. Writing as... (more)
Emotional Well-Being and Mental Health: A Guide for Counsellors and Psychotherapists
Well-being is an important topic for many different professions. From health professionals to politicians, a number of fields seek to research, understand and promote wellbeing. As a concept at the... (more)
Therapy, Culture and Spirituality: Developing Therapeutic Practice
At times there is reluctance, even a taboo, to talk about how race, culture, religion and spirituality affect us. Yet the whole point of 'talking therapies' is to invite people to express and reflect... (more)
Counselling Children and Young People in Private Practice: A Practical Guide
With statutory CAMHS services often heavily oversubscribed, and school and college services mainly offering brief therapeutic interventions, parents are increasingly turning to private practitioners... (more)
Self-Care for the Mental Health Practitioner: The Theory, Research and Practice of Preventing and Addressing the Occupational Hazards of the Profession
This book provides a comprehensive resource on self-care for those working in the field of psychotherapy.
Beginning with an exploration of the role and duties of the mental health practitioner,... (more)
The Compassionate Practitioner: How to Create a Successful and Rewarding Practice
Focusing on the importance of relationship-building, this handbook explains how to turn new clients into regulars and make your practice flourish. If you can create trust, loyalty and a sense of... (more)
Zen Meditation in Psychotherapy: Techniques for Clinical Practice
Zen Meditation presents a practical advantage to people undergoing psychotherapy as a practice providing tools for seeing directly and objectively, a skill which many clients lack. This inspiring... (more)