Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy: The Essential Guide (Counselling in Action Series)

Stephen Palmer is joint award winner of the Annual Counselling Psychology Award for outstanding professional and scientific contribution to Counselling Psychology in Britain for 2000. `An Introductory Text that applies a down-to-earth approach to a diversity of 23 therapeutic approaches within couselling and psychotherapy, it was actually a pleasure conducting the review and having to read over the oulined models....It is a definate entry for counselling training courses and will offer pleanty of ideas for those teaching as well as training. It is fun to read and offers numerous ideas of how to put into place counselling techniques' -Counselling Psychology Review This essential guide t This Introduction To Counselling And Psychotherapy Is The Essential Guide To The Range Of Approaches Used In Current Practice. All Of The Major Schools Of Counselling And Psychotherapy Are Covered, As Well As Many That Are Less Well Known. This Book Will Be Of Value To Everyone Doing An Introductory Training Course In Counselling Or Psychotherapy, And Also To Potential Clients Who Want To Decide What Form Of Counselling Or Therapy Might Benefit Them Most.--book Jacket. An Introduction To Counselling And Psychotherapy -- Adlerian Counselling And Psychotherapy -- Behaviour Counselling And Psychotherapy -- Cognitive Analytic Counselling And Psychotherapy -- Cognitive Counselling And Psychotherapy -- Existential Counselling And Psychotherapy -- Gestalt Counselling And Psychotherapy -- Hypnosis In Counselling And Psychotherapy -- Integrative Counselling -- Lifeskills Counselling -- Multimodal Counselling And Therapy -- Neuro-linguistiv Programming -- Person-centred Counselling And Psychotherapy -- Personal Construct Counselling And Psychotherapy -- Primal Integration Counselling And Psychotherapy. Problem Focused Counselling And Psychotherapy -- Psychosynthesis -- Psychodynamic (freudian) Counselling And Psychotherapy -- Psychodynamic (jungian) Counselling And Psychotherapy -- Psychodynamic (kleinian) Counselling And Psychotherapy -- Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy -- Reality Therapy -- Solution Focused Therapy -- Transactional Analysis -- Research Issues In Counselling And Psychotherapy. Edited By Stephen Palmer. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Most people today probably have at least some hazy notion of what counselling is, since the term is now used so widely.