Building on the success of the first edition, this substantially revised and extended new edition is set to remain the most in-depth and wide-ranging book available on person-centred psychotherapy and counselling.
The book is thoroughly updated to reflect the latest trends in theory and practice:
It extends its coverage of professional settings and applications, including brand new chapters on children, older people, arts-based therapies, addiction and bereavement.
It engages systematically with urgent contemporary issues, such as evidence-based practice, political and medical...

A jargon-free book for all counselling & psychotherapy students and practitioners that lays out the most recent research findings in the field. It makes the facts friendly, even for 'statisticophobes'!

Bestselling authors Cooper and McLeod present a groundbreaking new approach to counselling, outlining a flexible framework for practice applicable to all modalities of therapy at all levels.

This book is for trainees and practitioners across the orientations who wish to incorporate an existential approach into their practice. Using a pluralistic perspective that recognises the diversity of clients and their individual needs, it shows trainees how and when existential concepts and practices can be used alongside other approaches.

A wealth of resources and the author's writing style make this is one of the most accessible and inspiring introductions to existential therapy. Videos of existential counselling in practice and written case studies...

This highly practical book presents a model for understanding distress and change in counselling and psychotherapy. Using in-depth case examples, author Mick Cooper details a range of methods for helping improve your clients' well-being, as well as giving you the confidence to tailor the therapy to particular clients and respond to their goals at particular times. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical ideas and practices, this fascinating book considers how changes take effect at both an individual and social level. It is particularly recommended reading for integrative, eclectic and...

This highly practical book presents a model for understanding distress and change in counselling and psychotherapy. Using in-depth case examples, author Mick Cooper details a range of methods for helping improve your clients' well-being, as well as giving you the confidence to tailor the therapy to particular clients and respond to their goals at particular times. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical ideas and practices, this fascinating book considers how changes take effect at both an individual and social level. It is particularly recommended reading for integrative, eclectic and...