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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.
Who Owns Counselling?
Who Owns Counselling?
This may seem an absurd question but it hopefully provokes a number of interesting questions. On the one hand, how can anyone own counselling, any more than anyone can own history, shopping or love? But on the other hand, counselling found in the titles of university courses, professional bodies and books looks like it has a proprietor. The term only began to be used in its current form in the early twentieth century, was promoted by Rogers in the 1940s and in the UK from the 1970s. It's rather a strange word, suggesting advice-giving but strenuously avoiding exactly that activity, and overlapping with psychotherapy so much that people must wonder why the term ‘counselling’ was ever needed. A large part ...
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