Challenges to Counselling and Psychotherapy - Howard, Alex
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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?
Table of contents:
Foreword by Emmy van Deurzen-Smith
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
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?

Table of contents:
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
Autorenporträt
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.