`This chunky little book is packed with interesting approaches to the currently fashionable area of client assessment.... This is a book for any counsellor or counsellor trainee's shelf, a necessary reference for the sound professional' - Counselling News `The comprehensive series of essays... is a timely contribution.... This book is about being professional and effective... a valuable multimodal life inventory for use with clients is provided' - Counselling, The Journal of The British Association for Counselling What information will help you assess the therapeutic needs of a client? Could you identify a suicidal client? How can you tell whether or not you are working with appropriate clients? Answering these and other questions, this book sheds light on a crucial, but often neglected, area of counselling. The authors provide clear guidelines, backed up by practice points, which clarify the assessment, monitoring and evaluation of clients. The book adopts a broad approach, transcending specific counselling theories and covering the main issues involved at key stages in the client/counsellor relationship - from the initial contact, through monitoring of the therapeutic programme, to ending the counselling process. Areas examined include: assessing the best type of therapy for each client; identifying the client's therapeutic goals; history taking; referral; and evaluating goal achievement. Gladeanna McMahon is presenter of the ITV programme Dial A Mum.
Looking at how to run staff training groups and at what to do with stuck teams, this ''how to do it'' guide is aimed at people in the health and social services who want their training to be imaginative, energetic and effective. The latest theories in staff training are examined, with a focus on how to use sociodrama as a training tool. Using ......
Key Themes for Protection, Rights and Responsibilities
The companion volume to Good Practice in Risk Assessment 1 looks at further issues in the field of risk assessment. Managers are under increasing pressure to predict risk accurately, and face serious consequences for failure. This new collection explores the arguments and means of assessment in a clear and accessible manner and with a ......
This text examines systematically the theoretical basis of role play as well as the full range of approaches involved. The book enables the reader to develop: a clear strategy for conducting valid role plays; a comprehensive idea of the key questions to be asked when planning a role play; and a clear understanding of the technical and methodological issues that must be addressed.
Martin Buber's Conversational Approach to Psychotherapy
''Healing through meeting'' explains Martin Buber's ideas in simple terms and shows how they can offer a philosophical and ethical framework within which to hold a therapeutic conversation. A collection of therapeutic stories, based on actual case studies, is included which therapists can share with their clients. Through the telling of stories, ......
This guide clarifies why personal and professional development is important for therapists. It describes how therapists can identify and fill gaps in their training; encourages therapists to expand their skills into new areas; assesses the range, value and availability of training courses; shows how to prepare for the accreditation process; and stresses how important it is for therapists to keep up-to-date with issues such as ethics and law, and to address their own attitudes to race, culture, gender and age.
Effects on Clinicians' Personal and Professional Lives
In this text, Helene Jackson and Ronald Nutt all argue that gender, age, discipline, a history of childho od abuse, individual core belief systems and case factors ca n all affect a professional''s perception of sexual abuse all egations. '
Presents a comprehensive overview of the family therapy field. This book covers such topics as psychoanalytic family therapies, psychoeducation, and internal family systems therapy, as well as cogent discussions on such issues as the social construction of gender and the historical foundations that influence the field.
In this book, the author offers an analytical account of how counselling, as a process, is dynamically constructed through the interaction of counsellor and client. Drawing on research on counselling of clients undergoing an HIV test, the author explores the ways in which conversations between counsellors and patients reflect, embody and subtly alter assumptions about the purpose, method and practice of counselling. This text should be of interest to researchers and students of counselling, psychotherapy and associated helping professions as a critical appreciation of the modes of engagement between counsellor and client. Practitioners - particularly those within the domain of HIV and other health counselling - should be stimulated to reflect on and respond to Silverman's analysis in their own practice. This book should also be useful reading for researchers and students in the traditions of sociological work on interactionism, conversation analysis and ethnomethodology, applying these approaches in a sophisticated manner to the interactional and conversational analysis strategies adopted in a health promotion environment.
