Summary
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In this thoroughly revised new edition, with eleven new chapters and substantial updates to all others, Rowan Bayne and Gordon Jinks expertly combine the professional and academic aspects of applied psychology. The contributing authors, all experts in their field, provide authoritative and engaging overviews of their areas of expertise and an important range of perspectives. Applied Psychology: Research, Practice and New Directions, Second Edition is organized into three parts. The first part is a general context for applied psychology including a discussion of questions about evidence based practice. The second part discusses practice and training in a plethora of areas of applied psychology, including all of the traditional routes (for e.g. clinical, health and educational psychology) eight ‘relative newcomers’ to the field (for e.g. sport and forensic) and four areas not always regarded as applied psychology: counseling, coaching, careers guidance and lecturing. The innovative third part is a roundtable of expert practitioners commenting on the new directions they would like to see in their areas of applied psychology.
Counselling and Psychotherapy
Counselling and Psychotherapy
This chapter discusses:
- what is counselling and psychotherapy?
- training in counselling and psychotherapy;
- contexts in which counsellors and psychotherapists work;
- a day in the life;
- the range of approaches and integration;
- regulation of counselling and psychotherapy;
- research and evidence-based practice in counselling and psychotherapy.
Introduction
Counselling and psychotherapy have developed from separate traditions, but are both concerned with helping clients move in the direction of increasing some or all of a range of attributes such as self-awareness, self-acceptance, autonomy, self-efficacy, choice and empowerment; and both are also concerned with helping clients towards more positive emotional, psychological, social and indeed physical well-being. The primary tool is considered to be the therapeutic relationship, although research indicates that in fact the most important factors in determining therapeutic outcome are what ...
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