Aims to bridge the gap between the psychosocial realities of clients and the dominant clinical practices. This book combines historical, ethical, and experiential foundations for the development of social justice based practices. It also explores conceptual frameworks, clinical …
"This second edition of Best Practice in Professional Supervision is a fully updated and revised guide to being an excellent supervisor in th social care, nursing, counselling and allied health professions. This field has developed rapidly in the past 10 years, and this new edit…
Psychological and psychiatric disorders are the third most common diagnosis in consultations in primary care, following respiratory and cardiovascular disorders. This book explores the counsellor's role in general practice and investigates the issues involved.
Psychological and psychiatric disorders are the third most common diagnosis in consultations in primary care, following respiratory and cardiovascular disorders. This book explores the counsellor's role in general practice and investigates the issues involved.
This thesis explores the reconstruction of self identity stories in a defined area of alternative therapy. An initial document analysis of advertisements in directories, described as alternative to promote views and practices on complementary health and environmental issues, sug…
When approached for spiritual and emotional support, many religious leaders avoid pastoral care outreach to persons who have been previously incarcerated. Rather than embracing and guiding the ex-offender toward spiritual and emotional healing, many faith leaders treat those who…
Counselling psychology springs from humanistic and existential/phenomenological values arguing for the need to see human beings in a holistic manner. This value system is a move towards well-being rather than pathology and sickness. The philosophical underpinning of counselling …
An extensive literature search reveals the profound lack of research on specialist professionals’ perspective on clinical work with asylum-seekers and refugees. This study explores the manner in which practitioners’ clinical experience with asylum-seekers and refugees informs th…
This study explores the significance for practitioners of taking their therapeutic work outside of the traditional therapy room, typically into nature spaces, parks or gardens. Attention is paid to the notion of the therapeutic frame and relevant ecopsychology theory. While ther…
In the UK, proportionally fewer men attend counselling and psychotherapy services (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 2014; NHS Digital, 2018). Suggesting externalising expressions of distress, authors cite the increased rates amongst Western men of: completed…
What are the long and short term effects of working with suicidal clients on the person-centred counsellor? As suicide remains a major public health issue with the latest figures for the UK of 5706, an increase from 5377 in 2007 (ONS, 2010), suicide prevention strategies remain …
This study is based on heuristic methodology and looks at counsellor/therapists’ experience of integrating Christian faith with their clinical practice. The researcher overtly includes her own material and documents her own internal process as part of the research journey. Some …
In the cultural context of low achievement in Arab Israeli schools, this work-based study describes and evaluates a successful counselling intervention in one Israeli Arab elementary school. The intervention took place over six months and involved twenty activities. A mixed meth…
The experience of opposition between what could be contained in my internal world, and what I wanted freedom from containing while a client in counselling led to the conception of this research. Containment and freedom seemed to form a polarity (Jung 1961; 1969) in that each not…
The need for multicultural counselling is on the rise while developing multicultural tools in counselling are lagging behind. This is especially apparent in the use of music for counselling purposes. There is a dearth of knowledge regarding the music repertoires of different cul…