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Critical Thinking in Counselling and Psychotherapy 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.
Ranging from more mainstream subjects like unconditional positive regard, ethics and supervision to broader social or philosophical issues such as employment concerns and the debate on assisted suicide, entries include: Why have we focused on core theoretical models?; What are the pros and cons of short-term, time-limited counselling?; What's wrong with CBT?; Where is research taking us?; Is statutory regulation a good and inevitable development?; Are there limits to personal change in counselling?
Each section includes questions for reflection, 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.
What Are the Pros and Cons of Unconditional Positive Regard?
What Are the Pros and Cons of Unconditional Positive Regard?
The term ‘unconditional positive regard’ (UPR) was coined by Carl Rogers and equates with a deep acceptance of the client. Sometimes it is referred to as warmth, non-judgementalism and prizing. It is asserted that no effective counselling can take place without such acceptance, since a counsellor who overtly or covertly transmits their judgement or rejection is reinforcing exactly those negative experiences that others, such as parents, have been responsible for; and no successful counselling is likely to happen in a non-accepting relationship. The ‘U’ in the UPR connotes an ability to rise above typical social values and prejudices but it is often said that one does ...
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