Learning how to work effectively with a broad range of clients and their presenting issues is a vital part of a career as a therapist, but engaging with the often conflicting worlds of descriptive psychopathology and the subjective meanings of the therapist and client is a real challenge for trainees. They have to develop the skills and knowledge that allow both approaches - one medical, one humanistic - to work successfully together.

With the support of expert contributors, Pam James and Barbara Douglas help your students to confidently do just that, proving a comprehensive...

Trying to teach then hopefully learn to change are the stages that are developmentally essential if one is to grow and become effective in any situation where actual learning can take place. Knowing when and how to change approaches, methods, and expectations is essential. Would you strap a boy of fifteen years who is bigger than you? Would you teach in a locked jail unit alongside a convicted murderer? I did both. Recorded here are the big changes I went through during my career. I went from having an atmosphere of fear in the classroom to having a loving atmosphere. Yet I still had control ...

Trying to teach then hopefully learn to change are the stages that are developmentally essential if one is to grow and become effective in any situation where actual learning can take place. Knowing when and how to change approaches, methods, and expectations is essential. Would you strap a boy of fifteen years who is bigger than you? Would you teach in a locked jail unit alongside a convicted murderer? I did both. Recorded here are the big changes I went through during my career. I went from having an atmosphere of fear in the classroom to having a loving atmosphere. Yet I still had control ...

This fourth edition provides the most comprehensive guide to the field of counselling psychology, exploring a range of theories and philosophical underpinnings, practice approaches and contexts, and professional issues. It has been updated to reflect current issues and debates and to map onto the training standards, and offers the ultimate companion for your journey through counselling psychology training and into the workplace.

New to the fourth edition:

- Chapters on: Person-Centred Therapy; Mindfulness; Neuroscience; Engaging with and Carrying...