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This book produces evidence for the research effectiveness of therapies and makes the moral case for bringing together human psychological welfare needs and the expanding number of skilled, ethically sensitive people ready to listen and respond in the most deeply human and needed way.
Consumers' Views of the Benefits of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Consumers' Views of the Benefits of Counselling and Psychotherapy
Surely the single most crucial focus of therapy and reflection on therapy is the client or consumer, the person seeking help or guidance, out of real need or serious aspiration. Ultimately most formal research rests on the views of clients about their satisfaction with the therapeutic or growth-promoting services they have received (sometimes alongside observations and corroboration by others). After all matters of theory, training, supervision, quality control, costing and so on have been scrutinised, refined and continuously debated, it is ultimately in the changed or changing experience and behaviour of consumers or seekers where the most important effects of this work are found. For these reasons, this ...
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