Summary
Contents
Subject index
This fourth edition provides the most comprehensive guide to the field of counselling psychology, exploring a range of theories and philosophical underpinnings, practice approaches and contexts, and professional issues. It has been updated to reflect current issues and debates and to map onto the training standards, and offers the ultimate companion for your journey through counselling psychology training and into the workplace. New to the fourth edition: • Chapters on: Person-Centred Therapy; Mindfulness; Neuroscience; Engaging with and Carrying out Research; Reflective Practice; International Dimensions; and Ecopsychology • A companion website offering over 30 hours of video and audio, including conversations with counselling psychology practitioners and trainees, and articles, exercises and case studies • Other new features include: Further Reading , ‘Day in the Life of’ dialogues with practitioners; Reflective Exercises, and Discussion Points, and new case studies. Special attention has been paid to the topic of research, both as a theme throughout the book, and through four new chapters covering the use, carry out and publication of research at different stages of training and practice. The handbook is the essential textbook for students and practitioners in the field of counselling psychology and allied health professions, at all stages of their career and across a range of settings, both in the UK and internationally.
Working with difference and diversity
Working with difference and diversity
Introduction
The terms ‘diversity’ and ‘difference’ should not necessarily be viewed as problematic or the cause of conflict and difficulty, but be seen as positive and enriching. However, at an organisational and socio-political level, promoting diversity has become concerned with issues and policies addressing the experience of marginalised, disadvantaged and oppressed people and groups who face discrimination at a structural and personal level. These policies aim to redress the power imbalance and bring minorities within the core of an organisation as citizens, employees, consumers and users. However, the emphasis in this chapter will be on how we, as counselling psychologists, can actively address the individual’s experience of being different or from ...
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