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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.
What Are the Limitations of the Person-Centred Approach?
What Are the Limitations of the Person-Centred Approach?
The person-centred approach – still very much the ‘brainchild’ of Carl Rogers – remains one of the most popular of counselling and psychotherapy approaches in the UK. This is probably due to its positive view of human nature and potential and also to its relative simplicity in the marketplace of often complicated theories. Adherents of the PCA point out that it is often misunderstood as something simplistic and is often caricatured rather than fully explored. I think they would agree that it rests on the belief that human nature, however complex, is fundamentally trustworthy and directed towards prosocial ends – and that its therapy is capable of restoring self-acceptance and empowerment ...
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