Challenges to Counselling and Psychotherapy

ISBN-13: 9780333642870 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 208 str.

Howard, Alex

Opis

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. The range, passion and depth of the discussion will attract the general reader and a wide diversity of carers and clients. The questions raised should make it mandatory reading for practitioners and their supervisors. Which schools of counselling will rise to the challenge? Which will fail, and fall?

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

ALEX HOWARD has over twenty years' experience as a tutor and manager in adult education with particular responsibility for mental health self-help programmes and support groups. This is his fourth book. He is tutor-organizer for the Workers' Educational Association on Tyneside.