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Older people rarely feature in counselling literature, and the very old barely at all. Helen Kewell describes her encounters with some of the old and very old clients with whom she has worked as a counsellor. The common thread is the recognition of the human potential for growth, change and acceptance, regardless of age and ill health.

A practical book about the everyday practice of counselling and psychotherapy, written by a practitioner for fellow practitioners. Using case studies based on his own clients, Elton carefully examines what helps - and what hinders - the process of change in the therapy room.

An edited collection of works by this extraordinary practitioner and brilliant theoretical writer on the client-centered approach.

Sixteen is where anything can happen and often does. This book is written for psychotherapists, parents, teachers and anyone who has an interest in how the teenage mind works. Nine stories capture and explore the key themes of sex, gender, identity, body image, self-esteem, depression, loneliness, difference, loss and despair.

Pluralistic therapy offers an open, inquiring, flexible framework for client-centred practice. In this long-awaited book, Kate Smith and Ani de la Prida summarise the principles, underpinning philosophy and key features of the approach. They also consider the emerging research into pluralistic therapy and what it can look like in practice.

This revised and extended second edition offers a comprehensive description of the history, theory and practice of focusing-oriented counselling - how and why it 'works', the debates around it, what it brings to the counsellor's primary mode of practice, and the evidence to support it.

In this updated introduction to CBT, three of its foremost proponents and practitioners summarise its origins, principles, how it works in practice, and the research that underpins its widespread use. This second, revised edition updates the research and includes the third and fourth 'waves' of cognitive behaviour approaches.

This latest addition to the Primers in Counselling series offers an introduction to rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT). REBT therapists seek to help their clients identify, examine and change the rigid and extreme attitudes that underpin their emotional problems, and to develop alternative flexible and non-extreme alternative attitudes.

This book celebrates wildness, both in global ecosystems and in the human psyche. Drawing on psychotherapy, philosophy, ecology, anthropology, futuristic fiction and much other literature, he shows the links between domesticated civilisation and the destruction of the innate balance of ecosystems.

A biography of Carl Rogers one of the great social revolutionaries of the twentieth century. It is for lecturers, students and practitioners of psychotherapy and education, where his writings have had so much influence. It is also for sociologists, social historians and interested lay people.

Rates of diagnosis of psychiatric disorders in children have shot up in recent years. So too has the prescription of antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs and stimulants. Yet the diagnoses are based on weak science, questionable research and powerful financial incentives. Sami Timimi questions why.

Art Bohart is one of today's foremost theorists and practitioners of person-centred therapy. His work has focusedon empathy, the client's role in psychotherapy and evidence-based practice. This book brings together his personal pick from the many previously unpublished papers he has delivered at conferences in Europe and the USA.

The highly acclaimed most accessible basic introduction for everyone wanting to know more about counselling and helping.

The Existential Counselling Primer is a concise summary of the philosophical origins of existentialist therapy and existentialist understandings of what it is to be human, and how both inform the theory and practice of existential counselling. This 2nd edition is revised and updated to include recent developments in thinking, research and practice.

Increasingly, counsellors and psychotherapists are working with people who have been diagnosed with a mental disorder and are required to understand and navigate the mental health system. Yet, counselling training rarely covers the fields of psychiatry and mental health in detail. This comprehensive guide is written as a resource to fill that gap.

Robin and Joan Shohet are pioneers in supervision training for the helping professions. Much more than a manual, this book embodies the heart, soul, spirit and values of their training courses. Its detailed descriptions of their courses apply directly to the work of the helping professions and the therapeutic relationship, and to life in general.

Part of the "Counselling Primer" series, supplementary to the bestselling "Steps in Counselling" series, this book presents an introduction to integrative counselling with a person-centred foundation. It aims to bridge the gap between introductory, intermediate and diploma level courses.

A guide to psychodynamic theory and practice. It presents comprehensive descriptions of key counselling approaches in the twenty-first century. It is suitable for students requiring a theory bridge between introductory, intermediate and diploma courses or focused input for comparative essays and integrative theory assignments.

For students, researchers or practitioners wanting a succinct guide to person-centred theory and practice.

Suitable for students of mental health disciplines, psychiatric service users, and carers, this book offers information that you need to make informed choices about psychiatric drugs. It presents practical advice on the right questions to ask if you are prescribed medication for mental health problems and what happens on withdrawal of medication.

We live in a society where people struggle to look death in the eye. This book shows that, if we start talking openly about death, it can change the way we live. It is a collection of stories and images about death, dying and bereavement. People from all walks of life share their experiences and what they have learned from accompanying others.

This is a unique collection of poems written by and for people who have survived our mental health system and the diagnostic process that is used to categorise and treat mental and emotional distress.

Multilingual clients are different from monolingual clients. So writes Beverley Costa at the start of this groundbreaking book which explores the challenges and opportunities that working multilingually can bring to the therapeutic relationship.

In this latest addition to the best-selling 'Primers in Counselling' series, one of UK's foremost therapy authors outlines the why, what and how of single-session counselling and the evidence that supports it.

In 2017 the global #MeToo movement burst through the conspiracy of silence around women's experience of sexual abuse and violence. Now this ground-breaking book provides a space for counsellors and psychotherapists - more often the listeners - to tell their own stories, sometimes for the first time.