Summary
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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.
Counselling psychology in educational settings
Counselling psychology in educational settings
Introduction
This chapter aims to familiarise counselling psychologists with the practice of counselling psychology in education. It will give a sense of what such work involves and will provide the basic information that counselling psychologists would need to prepare for an interview for a placement or job in this setting.
Counselling psychologists (CPs) will be very aware that many of the issues that underlie adult mental health problems have their origins in childhood experiences. The mental health of children and young people is a matter of national concern (Cole, 2006; Doward, 2014) and there are currently calls for a more consistent well-funded mental health provision for this age group. A parliamentary select ...
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