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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.
Whatever Happened to Self-Analysis, Co-Counselling, Group and Social Therapy?
Whatever Happened to Self-Analysis, Co-Counselling, Group and Social Therapy?
The dominant form of counselling and psychotherapy is the face-to-face, one-to-one, asymmetrical and ‘professional’ one. A counsellor or therapist provides a service to another, known as the client (or sometimes the patient or analysand). But there are other ways of helping and being helped. Friendship is perhaps the primary one but is usually found to be problematic because a friend is tempted to advise or rescue you, wants to say what she would do, isn't necessarily confidential and so on. Let's look at some others and at what can be learned.
Self-analysis, practised by and good enough for Freud, has been advocated as a useful tool for trainees and ...
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