Personal and Professional Development for Counsellors, - Psychotherapists and Mental Health Practitioner

An accessible, research-informed approach to personal development issues for the counsellor, therapist or mental health practitioner, complete with learning tasks.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
IntroductionPart 1: Making sense of personal and professional development
What is personal development? Why is it important?
Methods for facilitating personal development
Theoretical and research perspectives
Professional development: maintaining and enhancing practical competence and career progression
Criteria for assessing the adequacy of personal and professional development Part 2: Learning tasks for personal development
Reflecting on life experience
Personal development through participation in a learning group
Making sense: constructing a framework for understanding
Building a relationship repertoire
Developing a professional identity: putting it all togetherReferences
Index

About the author

John McLeod is Professor of Counselling at the University of Abertay Dundee, having previously taught at Keele University and Wolverhampton University. He has practised in a range of counselling settings, as well as being involved in training, research and consultancy with many occupational groups, including nurses, social workers and emergency services personnel. The author of six books and more than fifty articles and chapters on various aspects of counselling and psychotherapy, he is currently editor of Counselling and Psychotherapy Research

Product details

• Authors: John Mcleod, John Mcleod Mcleod, Julia Mcleod
• Publisher: Open University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.04.2014
• EAN: 9780335247332
• ISBN: 978-0-335-24733-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Open University Press; UK Higher Education OUP Humanities & Social Sciences Counselling and Psychotherapy; University of Abertay Dundee; UK Higher Education OUP Humanities & Social Sciences Counselling and Psychotherapy; University of Abertay Dundee
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works