Main description:

This third edition brings together the fundamentals of counselling and psychotherapy theory, research, skills and practice. It addresses what every successful trainee or practitioner needs to know, do, think, feel, and use in a way that is entirely comprehensive, accessible and jargon-free. This book includes " An introduction to counselling and psychotherapy - definitions, philosophy and historical background " An outline of the most significant therapeutic skills, theories, approaches and setting-specific practice issues " The client, what they need from therapy, and the most commonly presented problems " The therapist and the importance of professional development, supervision, ethics and research. Including new material on interpersonal psychotherapy, ACT, pluralism and mindfulness, as well as body psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, learning disabilities, ADHD, and low self-esteem, this book continues to be essential reading for trainees or experienced practitioners alike.
Colin Feltham is Emeritus Professor of Critical Counselling Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP Senior Registered Practitioner and former co- editor of the British Journal for Guidance and Counselling. Ian Horton is now retired and was Principal Lecture in Counselling and Psychotherapy at University of East London, Chair of the UKRC Executive, a BACP accredited counsellor and UKRC registered independent counsellor. He is a fellow of the BACP.

Contents:

PART ONE: COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY IN CONTEXT What are Counselling and Psychotherapy? - Colin Feltham Types of Goal - Colin Feltham Arenas - Colin Feltham Settings and Opportunities for Employment - Colin Feltham PART TWO: SOCIO-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES Introduction - Colin Feltham and Ian Horton Gender - Jenny Bimrose Disability - Simon Parritt Age - Leonie Sugarman Social Class - David Pilgrim Sexual Orientation - Dominic Davies Religion and Spirituality - William West Race, Culture and Ethnicity - Harbrinder Dhillon-Stevens PART THREE: THERAPEUTIC SKILLS AND CLINICAL PRACTICE Introduction - Colin Feltham and Ian Horton The Client-therapist Relationship - William B. Stiles Generic Skills - Francesca Inskipp Specific Strategies and Techniques - Gordon Jinks Assessment and Case Formulation - Wendy Wood and Michael Townend Assessing Severe Mental Health Problems - Dan Tully Sructuring Work with Clients - Ian Horton Ancillary Skills - Colin Feltham Clinical Practice Issues - Tim Bond, Geof Alred and Peter Hughes PART FOUR: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES Introduction - Colin Feltham and Ian Horton Professional and Personal Development - Hazel Johns Clinical Supervision - Val Wosket Private Practice, Insurance, Advertising - Gabrielle Syme Ethical Codes and Guidance - Tim Bond Responding to Complaints - Tim Bond Client Experiences - Colin Feltham Therapy and the Law - Peter Jenkins Mental Health Law - Sobhi Girgis Fundamentals of Research - John McLeod Using the CORE System to Support Service Quality Development - John Mellor-Clark and Michael Barkham PART FIVE: THEORY AND APPROACHES Introduction - Colin Feltham and Ian Horton Contextual Psychology - Colin Feltham Psychological Type Theory - Rowan Bayne Models of Counselling and Psychotherapy - Ian Horton Integration - Ian Horton Approaches to Counselling and Psychotherapy: Introduction - Colin Feltham and Ian Horton Psychodynamic Approaches Adlerian Therapy - Anthea Millar and Jenny Warner Analytical Psychology - Ruth Williams Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy - Joseph Schwartz Lacanian Therapy - Lionel Bailly Psychoanalytic Therapy - Jessica Yakeley Psychodynamic Therapy - Julia Segal Cognitive-behavioural Approaches Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - John Boorman, Eric Morris & Joe Oliver Cognitive Therapy - Jill Mytton Dialectical Behaviour Therapy - Michaela Swales & Christine Dunkley Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy - Windy Dryden Humanistic-existential Approaches Body Psychotherapy - Nick Toton Existential Counselling and Therapy - Emmy van Deurzen Gestalt Therapy - Michael Ellis and Jonathan Smith Person-centred Therapy - Keith Tudor Psychodrama - Clark Baim Psychosynthesis Therapy - Helen Sieroda Transactional Analysis - Keith Tudor and Charlotte Sills Integrative and Eclectic Approaches Cognitive Analytic Therapy - Stephen Kellett Emotional Freedom Techniques - John Bullough Interpersonal Psychotherapy - Elizabeth Robinson and Graham Dyson Multimodal Therapy - Stephen Palmer Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy - John McLeod and Mick Cooper The Skilled Helper Model - Val Wosket Constructive Approaches Narrative Approaches to Therapy - John McLeod Neuro-linguistic Programming - Jo Cooper and Peter Seal Personal Construct Counselling and Psychotherapy - Fay Fransella and David Winter Solution-focused Therapy - Bill O'Connell PART SIX: CLIENT PRESENTING PROBLEMS Introduction - Colin Feltham and Ian Horton Conceptualizing Clients' Problems - Colin Feltham Psychopharmacology - Digby Tantum Specific Problems Alcohol Problems - Richard Velleman Anger Management - Emma Williams, Michael Scott and Gillian Bloxham Anxiety and Panic - Gill Donohoe and Tom Ricketts Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adults - Pam Maras Bereavement - Gabrielle Syme Depression - Paul Gilbert Counselling Drug-related Problems - Andrew Guppy and Sally Woods Eating and Exercise Disorders - Suzanne Abraham HIV/AIDS - Jill Balmont and Ida Waksberg Low Self-Esteem - Alison Waines Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS) - Daniel Zahl and Diana Sanders Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - Tom Ricketts and Gill Donohoe Personality Disorders - Stephen Kellett and Dan Tully Phobias - Gill Donohoe and Tom Ricketts Post-traumatic Stress Disorder - Claudia Herbert The Psychoses - Brian Martindale Relationship and Sex Problems - Gail Evans Sexual Abuse in Childhood - Moira Walker Working with Suicide and Self-Harm in Counselling and Psychotherapy - Andrew Reeves Working with Survivors of Rape and Domestic Violence - Christiane Sanderson PART SEVEN: SPECIALISMS AND MODALITIES Introduction - Colin Feltham and Ian Horton Counselling People Labelled with Asperger Syndrome - Nick Hodge Brief/time-limited Therapy - Colin Feltham Counselling Children - Kathryn Geldard and David Geldard Coaching - Janet Laffin Co-counselling - Rose Evison and Richard Horobin Couple Counselling - Gail Evans Disability - Simon Parritt Electronically Delivered Therapies - Kate Anthony Wider Issues of Technology in Therapy - Stephen Goss, Kate Anthony and DeeAnna Merz Nagel Family and Systemic Therapy - Mark Rivett Feminist Psychotherapy - Colleen Heenan Gender and Sexual Minority Therapy - Olivier Cormier-Otano and Dominic Davies Group Counselling and Therapy - Stephen Paul Hypnotherapeutic Skills - Kathy Stephenson Counselling Older People - Angela Harris and Ken Laidlaw Counselling in Primary Care - Louise Robinson, Sara Pennen and Pat Seber Clinical Applications of Working with Race, Culture and Ethnicity - Harbrinder Dhillon-Stevens Managing Stress - Rowan Bayne Counselling and Psychotherapy with Students - Andrew Reeves Telephone Counselling - Maxine Rosenfield Workplace Counselling - Kevin Friery Counselling Young People - Kathryn Geldard and David Geldard Postscript: Summary and Future Forecasting - Colin Feltham and Ian Horton List of Abbreviations Index