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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.
Must Counselling Embrace an Optimistic View of Human Nature and Potential?
Must Counselling Embrace an Optimistic View of Human Nature and Potential?
Implicitly, all counselling rests on a belief that whatever it is that the client brings – however negative and distressing it is – something can be done about it. This doesn't mean that all counsellors think in terms of guaranteed improvements in clients' lives but it is always implied, I think, that counselling is at least worth a shot, and very likely to make a positive difference. Even if this difference isn't always quite what the client wants, the implication is a hopeful one: try counselling and something worthwhile is likely to happen. In this sense all counselling and all counsellors are optimistic. But ...
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