This innovative new textbook examines the critical debates around key topics in counselling and psychotherapy. In nine sections including Everyday Counselling Practice, Training and Curriculum Issues, and Counselling, Society and Culture, Colin Feltham explores and cross-references 60 provocative questions central to counselling training and practice. Each section includes questions forreflection, case studies and student exercises. This comprehensive, student-friendly text is a useful resource for lecturers to stimulate seminar discussion, and for all trainees wishing to write essays or generally develop their critical thinking in counselling and psychotherapy. INDICE: Introduction: What is critical thinking? / PART ONE: EVERYDAY COUNSELLING PRACTICE / What are the pros and cons of unconditional positive regard? / How important are boundaries in counselling practice? / What form should assessment take? / Is eclecticism as bad as the bad press it's had? / What are the pros and cons of short-term, time-limited counselling? / What's wrong withcounsellor self-disclosure? / How crucial are counselling ethics? / Can you counsel effectively when affected by illness or personal troubles? / Does it matter if empathy is not matched by personal experience? / PART TWO: TRAINING AND CURRICULUM ISSUES / Is training necessary? / Who is suitable to be a counsellor? / Should men counsel? / How important is the trainee's own personal therapy? / Why have we focused on core theoretical models? / How much is theory related to practice? / Are colleges and universities the best places to train counsellors? / How necessary is psychology to counselling? / How might counselling be expanded as an academic discipline? / PART THREE: THEORIES OF COUNSELLINGPRACTICE / Who founds schools of counselling and why? / Which theories of human development are relevant? / How do genes, personality, object relations andlife events interact? / What roles do chance, destiny and control play in ourlives? / What's wrong with psychoanalytic therapy? / What are the limitationsof the person-centred approach? / What's wrong with CBT? / PART FOUR: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES AND INFRASTRUCTURES / Who owns counselling? / Do we need supervision forever? / Where is research taking us? / Is statutory regulation a good and inevitable development? / What are the differences between counselling, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, clinical and counselling psychology? / How buoyantor otherwise is the job market for counsellors? / How should we respond to cents' views and complaints? / PART FIVE: COUNSELLING, SOCIETY AND CULTURE / Howimportant are 'social contexts' of counselling as a component of training? / Can counselling be a countercultural activity? / How much should counsellors charge? / Whatever happened to self-analysis, co-counselling, group and social therapy? / Are we counselling on a dying planet? / PART SIX: SPIRITUAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES / Does counselling rest on faith and hope? / Are life, training and counselling part of a journey? / Can counselling make you enlightened?/ Whatever happened to free will and willpower? / Do we need a view about theworld//reality//existence itself? / PART SEVEN: COUNSELLING WISDOM / Is counselling non-directive and value-free? / Is it all about the relationship? / Does the client know best? / Must counselling embrace an optimistic view of humannature and potential? / PART EIGHT: THE SPECTRUM OF SUFFERING / Can counselling help people with serious mental health problems? / Are we all neurotic? / Are there limits to personal change in counselling? / Which undiscovered diagnostic categories might there be? / Is the human species anthropathological? / PART NINE: PERENNIAL AND CURRENT TOPICS / How much depends on the client? / Is counselling primarily a heartfelt activity? / Is counselling scientific? / What to think about suicide? / What is the future for couple counselling? / Why has counselling had so many detractors? / To what extent is counselling relianton illusions? / Who is the 'person of tomorrow'? / What does the writer really think?
- ISBN: 978-1-84860-018-8
- Editorial: Sage Publications
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés