Summary
Contents
Subject index
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.
How Important Are Boundaries in Counselling Practice?
How Important Are Boundaries in Counselling Practice?
Boundaries or frames are taken to have considerable significance in therapeutic practice, so much so that transgressing some boundaries is tantamount to professional death, while others are open to interesting debate.
The clearest prohibitive boundary is that between the professional and the sexual relationship, discussed elsewhere in this book. Associated with this are boundaries between physical contact and non-contact, and between friendly relations and strictly professional relations. The standard classical psychoanalytic stance is that there should be no physical contact – no reassuring touch on the arm or shoulder, no hugs at times of great distress, and so on. (Some even avoid a simple handshake on first meeting.) There are good reasons for ...
- Loading...