Challenges to Counselling and Psychotherapy

List of contents

Foreword by Emmy van Deurzen
Smith
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
PART 1: HERE COME THE CARERS
PART 2: COUNSELLING PLC?
PART 3: WHO SHALL BE OUR COUNSELLOR?
PART 4: 'CLIENT-CENTERED' APPROACHES
PART 5: COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOURIST APPROACHES
PART 6: PSYCHODYNAMIC APPROACHES
PART 7: TRANSPERSONAL APPROACHES
PART 8: CONCLUSION
Summary Questions
Suggested Reading
Index.

Summary

A clear, readable, radical challenge to the foundations of therapy. The author's ultimate target is not counselling, but the abuse of professionalisation and our current deity - consumerism. Which schools of counselling will rise to the challenge?

Product details

• Authors: Alex Howard
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1996
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 215 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 272 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 208 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology