Challenging Blank Minds and Sticky Moments in Counselling: A Revised Edition is a hugely pragmatic text that draws on humour and experience to explore and help to demystify some of the issues and dilemmas that counsellors find themselves in today. Offering diverse approaches and skills to help practitioners and trainees see through the 'challenging' or 'sticky' moments in conventional therapeutic practice, Janice Russell and Graham Dexter offer practical advice for moving forward.

Topics are presented in terms of an argument: key concerns, the underlying assumptions...

There is a place we all have been in life or already in that place or Getting to go into. There is a circumstance that puts in a life or death situation and a survival mode. You can either stay there and die or by the Grace of God with His guidance you can come out. This story about a young boy at the age of seventeen who was put in that There situation. We will call him Johnnie. Johnnie was with his two cousins who had not been town long when trouble broke out concerning them. Because of Johnnie's trouble childhood and early problem teen years he had made up his mind that he was not going to...

There is a place we all have been in life or already in that place or Getting to go into. There is a circumstance that puts in a life or death situation and a survival mode. You can either stay there and die or by the Grace of God with His guidance you can come out. This story about a young boy at the age of seventeen who was put in that There situation. We will call him Johnnie. Johnnie was with his two cousins who had not been town long when trouble broke out concerning them. Because of Johnnie's trouble childhood and early problem teen years he had made up his mind that he was not going to...

Izzie Childs is turning 50, wondering what happened to feminism and finding herself caught up in the conundrum of being both a smart post-feminist woman, and a little more obsessed than she'd like to be on issues of fat, looks and wrinkles. When she finds herself in Portugal for a month and lusting after a young man who cleans the pool, Izzie realizes that despite a life of counselling and self-awareness she is deep in mid-life crisis. Izzie decides to chronicle the trials and tribulations of her quest to integrate her feminist ideals with the shocking reality of her inner feelings, often...