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Developing the Practice of Counselling

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This book contains 30 hints and reminders to help both trainee and practising counsellors examine and improve key areas of their work. Focussing on areas that may need special attention, this text covers topics such as: the formation of an ethical and productive alliance; working with effective tasks and goals; identifying and addressing clients' obstacles to change; and developing professional knowledge and self-reflection. The text is aimed at readers who are familiar with the fundemantals of counselling and have begun to work with clients.
Windy Dryden is one of the leading practitioners and trainers in the UK in the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) tradition of psychotherapy. He is best known for his work in Rational-Emotive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (RECBT), a leading CBT approach. He has been working in the field of counselling and psychotherapy since 1975 and was one of the first people in Britain to be trained in CBT. He has published over 200 books and has trained therapists all over the world, in as diverse places as the UK, the USA, South Africa, Turkey and Israel. He is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Colin Feltham is series editor of Professional Skills for Counsellors and Short Introductions to the Therapy Professions series, co-editor of SAGE Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy and author of several SAGE texts, including What is Counselling?
Introduction Forming an Ethical and Effective Alliance Understanding and Working with Effective Tasks and Goals Identifying and Addressing Clients' Obstacles to Change Helping Clients to Consolidate Their Change and Move On Developing Professional Knowledge and Self-Reflection Epilogue
`The format is easy to access and stimulates reflection on practice' - International Review of Psychiatry
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