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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... therapy. In reviewing what we first wrote some 14 years ago, we remain pleased with our concentration on a down to ... therapy and cognitive therapy, but it is also in accord with Colin's belief in the relative modesty of what ...
... therapy as threatening to cheat clients of an opportunity to explore their lives in depth. It is psychoanalytic practitioners who have, in fact, been in the forefront of efforts to condense therapy (see Coren, 2001; Flegenheimer, 1982 ...
... therapy which is phased out by the tapering-down of sessions; but they also conceive of therapy as a recurring process, to be used as a kind of 'mental health check-up' with reference to developmental crises. A technical distinction ...
... therapy stimulated research into 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 ...
... therapy, although more appealing to working-class clients because of its goal-directedness, is also less likely to be offered because working-class clients are commonly seen (so Holmes and Lindley claim) as being less articulate and as ...
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 |