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Key Issues for Counselling in Action (Counselling in Action series)

Key Issues for Counselling in Action (Counselling in Action series)

by Andrew Reeves (Editor), Andrew Reeves (Editor), Windy Dryden (Editor)

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    Illustrated 2008

    $129.70
Synopsis

SAGE celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the Counselling in Action in November 2008. To view the video - click here

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Effective counselling is based on a strong working relationship between counsellor and client. Building and maintaining this therapeutic alliance, demands both skill and an ability to negotiate challenges which arise during the counselling process.

Key Issues for Counselling in Action prepares new practitioners for face-to-face work with clients by looking at what is required at each stage of the process and examining issues which practitioners most frequently need to deal with along the way. The topics covered are relevant to all counsellors, regardless of theoretical orientation.

The book explores the everyday issues counsellors face when:

- getting started

- making an assessment

- working at relational depth

- setting goals, and

- ending the relationship

Advice is also given on more difficult challenges, such as dealing with:

- reluctant clients

- stuckness

- client dependency, and

- unplanned endings.

Key Issues for Counselling in Action is a bestselling text which has been used to train many thousands of counsellors as well as supporting their continuing professional development. This second edition has been completely re-written and includes new material on the use of touch, self-care, culture and counselling evaluation.

Windy Dryden is Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies, Professional and Community Education (PACE) at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Andrew Reeves is a University Counsellor at the University of Liverpool Counselling Service and Editor of the journal, Counselling & Psychotherapy Research.

$129.70

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More Information

Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 336
 Edition: Second
 Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Published: 17 Sep 2008
ISBN 10: 1412946980
ISBN 13: 9781412946988

Media Reviews

This is a wonderful book for the new and trainee counsellor and should be on every courses' book list. It covers a wide area and with the different authors' voices speaking it has a varied tone.

-- Sue Nyirenda
`This new edition meets the challenges of counselling today and brings alive issues that have arisen in the last twenty years, adding up to an important new text for inclusion in counsellor training' - Colin Feltham, Course Leader in Counselling & Psycholtherapy, Sheffield Hallam University -- UK Reviewsall
Author Bio
Windy Dryden is one of the leading practitioners and trainers in the UK in the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) tradition of psychotherapy. He is best known for his work in Rational-Emotive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (RECBT), a leading CBT approach. He has been working in the field of counselling and psychotherapy since 1975 and was one of the first people in Britain to be trained in CBT. He has published over 200 books and has trained therapists all over the world, in as diverse places as the UK, the USA, South Africa, Turkey and Israel. He is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Dr Andrew Reeves is a Senior BACP Counsellor/Psychotherapist with over 30 years' experience of working in a range of settings as a social worker and therapist. He has experience of working in child protection, with children and families, adult mental health, schools and higher education. He additionally works as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chester on the professional doctorate programme and is a successful freelance trainer. He has written extensively, publishing several books and many articles, primarily around working with risk in counselling and psychotherapy, his specialist research area. He was Editor-in-Chief of Counselling and Psychotherapy Research journal for nearly six years, and has been Chair of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy since 2014.