Counselling and Therapy Techniques

This is the first book on counselling skills to look in detail at the practical interventions and tools used to establish the therapeutic relationship. Step-by-step, the text teaches the reader exactly how to use these skills with clients to address their concerns and achieve therapeutic change. Integrative and pluralistic in approach, the text covers the key techniques from all the major therapeutic models, placing them in their historical and theoretical contexts. Techniques covered include empathic responding, experiential focusing, Gestalt, metaphors, task-directed imagery, ego state therapy, solution focused therapy, cognitive behvioral therapy, narrative therapy and self-in-relationship therapy. The book: - presents each technique from the perspective of its underlying theory; - gives practical instruction on how to deliver each intervention; - provides extracts from counselling sessions to demonstrate the technique in action. This book is crucial reading for all trainees on counselling and psychotherapy courses or preparing to use counselling techniques in a range of other professional settings. It is also helpful for professionals who wish to acquire additional skills. Augustine Meier, Ph.D., certified clinical psychologist, professor Emeritus, Faculty of Human Sciences, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Ontario and Founder and President of the Ottawa Institute for Object Relations Therapy. Micheline Boivin, M.A., certified clinical psychologist, Psychological Services of the Family, Youth and Children's Program at the Centre for Health and Social Services, Gatineau, Quebec.

ISBN 1847879586   Pages 192 ISBN13 9781847879585 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 358 Publisher SAGE Publications Ltd   Published in London Imprint SAGE Publications Ltd   Height (mm) 232 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 186 Publication date 15 Oct 2010   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 616.8914   Academic level Professional / Scholarly, Further/Higher education DEWEY edition DC22

		Author Biographies
		Acknowledgements
1		Theoretical Bridges and the Psychotherapy Process		1
		Introduction		1
		Epistemological Foundations		2
		Psychotherapeutic Content-Client Experiences		4
		Encoding Experiences		5
		Psychic Organisations and Processes		6
		Target of Change: Behaviour or Reworking and Rebuilding Psychic Organizations		7
		Phases of the Change Process and Techniques		8
		Techniques and the Therapeutic Relationship		9
		Therapist-Client Collaboration		10
		Discriminate Use of a Technique		12
		Ethical Considerations and the Use of Techniques		13
		References		14
2		Empathic Responses		16
		Introduction		16
		Empathy: Origin and Definitions		17
		Theoretical Aspects		17
		Measuring Accurate Empathy		21
		The Technique of Empathic Responding		22
		Guidelines for Formulating and Communicating Empathic Responses		24
		Common Problems and Empathic Inhibitors		25
		Illustration: Tania		26
		References		30
3		The Experiential Focusing Technique		32
		Introduction		32
		Theoretical Aspects		33
		The Practice of Experiential Focusing		37
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'This original and sophisticated book provides advanced students with a focused introduction to the main schools of counselling, offering detailed, accurate and highly specific information about each counselling technique. Ideal reading for postgraduate psychology students, counselling psychology trainees or trainee counsellors, I would recommend this book for my students.' - Dr Fiona Starr, Chartered Clinical Psychologist and Principal Lecturer, School of Health and Social Sciences, Middlesex University 'This book is a pleasure to read. Written in an easy-to-follow format the contents provide the reader with not only the theory of each technique but more importantly the ways in which it can be used. Therapists will find this a useful addition to their bookshelves and to their therapeutic work in general. As someone who taught on Diploma and Masters programmes in Counselling, this book will also be of considerable use to trainee therapists and tutors alike.' - Gladeana McMahon, Co-Director, Centre for Stress Management and Chair of the Association for Coaching UK

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Version	Price	Published	Edition
Hardback	£65.00	2010
Electronic Book	£26.39