Brief Counselling: A Practical Integrative ApproachPraise for the previous edition: “…an excellent resource for all trainee and beginning counsellors irrespective of theoretical orientation. I regard it as a core text for Professional and Clinical Practice components of counsellor education and training courses.” Praise for the current edition: "This book is a must. It informs the beginner and experienced counsellor howto undertake brief counselling, step by step, from orienting the client tocounselling, to termination of counselling." Almost two thirds of counsellors and psychotherapists work with clients in up to twenty sessions each: this book reflects that reality and the challenges involved. The bestselling first edition of this book, by two of the UK's leading counsellor trainers and academics, was praised by trainers and tutors for its accessibility, comprehensiveness and practicality. It was also a leading contribution to the movement towards time-conscious counselling and to an understanding of the therapeutic alliance across time. The second edition has been thoroughly updated to include significant recent professional developments and new thinking in the counselling field. Additions include more detailed discussion of:
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From inside the book
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... therapeutic alliance from missed or cancelled appointments 46 Begin work on a new target concern 47 Identify and work on themes rather than concerns 102 104 106 107 113 114 Part IV Encouraging change through homework 48 Explain your ...
... therapeutic work 74 Balance the head and heart aspects of counselling 75 Consider how best to use supervision of brief counselling 76 Be alert to your client's dependency on counselling and on you as a counsellor; help clients to ...
... therapeutic skills (see also Talmon, 1990). Many commercial, statutory and voluntary agencies offer a maximum of six or eight sessions. Mann (1973) pioneered time-limited psychotherapy consisting of twelve sessions, the non ...
... therapeutic outcome and process and encouraged practitioners to experiment with other models and to integrate them into their own work. Many new schools of therapy appeared and developed around the 1960s and 1970s (including Gestalt ...
... therapeutic process that will last weeks rather than years. They should be capable of formulating and articulating their problems and goals reasonably succinctly. Thus, applicants for counselling who are either seriously psychiatrically ...
Contents
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Part II ASSESSING THE CLIENTS CONCERNS | 43 |
Part III INITIATING CHANGE | 89 |
Part IV ENCOURAGING CHANGE THROUGH HOMEWORK | 111 |
Part V COUNSELLING IN THE MIDDLE PHASE | 137 |
Part VI ENDING COUNSELLING | 165 |
Appendix 3 | 192 |
Appendix 4 | 198 |
Appendix 5 | 205 |
Appendix 6 | 207 |
Appendix 7 | 211 |
Appendix 8 | 213 |
References | 215 |
Index | 223 |
Other editions - View all
Brief Counselling: A Practical Guide for Beginning Practitioners Windy Dryden,Colin Feltham No preview available - 2006 |
EBOOK: Brief Counselling: A Practical Integrative Approach Colin Feltham,Windy Dryden No preview available - 2006 |