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.
The interface between psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic approaches
The interface between psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic approaches
Introduction
This chapter outlines some of the assumptions, constructs and implications of the psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic approaches based upon different paradigms of the medical model and the psychological model, and how they may interact with each other. This is set within the social and political context of the influence medicine has within the NHS and wider society, and how the concept of mental illness has evolved as a way of explaining and categorising psychological distress.
In the companion website resources linked to this chapter there is a brief outline of psychopharmacological drugs, their uses and the guidelines for their prescription, and a discussion of how they may affect ...
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