Handbook of Counselling

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Gladeana McMahon, Stephen Palmer
Routledge, Apr 23, 2014 - Psychology - 624 pages

The Handbook of Counselling provides a comprehensive and up-to-the-minute guide for counsellors and those using counselling skills in other professions. The contributors, all experienced practitioners, explore the major arenas and settings in which counselling is practised as well as the key themes and issues faced by those working in this field.
This edition of the handbook has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the pace of growth and change within counselling over recent years. Six new chapters have been added, covering:
* brief and time-limited counselling
* working with adults abused as children
* trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder
* counsellor-client exploitation
* private practice
* counselling in voluntary settings.
Published in association with the British Association for Counselling, the Handbook of Counselling provides a definitive source of information and guidance for counsellors both in training and practice.

 

Contents

present position and future
3
the life cycle and counselling
22
Individual counselling
39
Couples counselling
58
Family counselling
75
Counselling in groups
94
Counselling in private practice
111
Counselling in voluntary organizations
126
Careers counselling and guidance
332
Counselling in the context of redundancy
350
Counselling death and bereavement
362
Counselling and sexual dysfunctions
382
Counselling people with disabilitieschronic illnesses
402
Counselling people affected by HIV and AIDS
421
Counselling people with alcohol and drug problems
435
Counselling adults who were abused as children
457

Counselling in the personal social services
143
Counselling in the medical context
161
Counselling in higher education
194
Counselling in the workplace
211
Brief and timelimited counselling
252
Counselling and gender
269
Counselling and race
285
Counselling and sexual orientation
303
Pastoral counselling
317
Counselling for trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder
473
Research and evaluation in counselling
489
Professional issues in counselling
520
BACs Code of Ethics and Practice for Counsellors
534
BACs Code of Ethics and Practice for Supervisors
548
Ethical Guidelines for Monitoring Evaluation
567
Subject index
585
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About the author (2014)

Stephen Palmer is Founding Director of the Centre for Stress Management, London. He is former Managing Editor of Counselling, the journal of the BAC and has written widely on the subject of counselling and stress management. Gladeana McMahon is a counsellor, trainer and supervisor in private practice, London.

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