Full Description
'[This] is essential reading for all who aspire to professional practice to ensure that knowledge and skills are up to date in order to best serve their clients.'
Professor Sue Wheeler, University of Leicester
'[It] continues to be the book that one turns to when looking for a clear introduction to the broad range of therapies that are offered in the UK today.'
Dr Nick Midgley, Anna Freud Centre
This classic text has helped over 50,000 students wishing to understand the key counselling and psychotherapy approaches. This sixth edition is the most comprehensive update since it was first published in 1984, with 15 newly contributed chapters and 8 updated chapters. Each approach now includes a new Research section summarising the research findings, an in-depth Case Study illustrating how that approach works in practice, and an extended Practice section. Also covered:
· historical context and development
· main theoretical assumptions
· which clients will benefit most
· strengths and limitations.
New chapters include Compassion-Focussed Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Mindfulness in Individual Therapy, Pluralistic Therapy and The Transpersonal in Individual Therapy.
This is an ideal one-stop shop for trainees of counselling, psychotherapy, counselling psychology, psychology and other allied professions wanting to learn about the most commonly practised therapies today.
Windy Dryden has worked in the fields of counselling and psychotherapy since 1975. He is author/editor of over 200 books.
Andrew Reeves is a BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist at the Univeristy of Liverpool and a freelance writer, trainer and supervisor. He is former Editor of the Counselling and Psychotherapy Research journal.
Contents
The Cultural Context of British Psychotherapy - Colin Feltham
PART ONE: THE PSYCHODYNAMIC TRADITION
Psychodynamic Therapy: Contemporary Freudian Approach - Jessica Yakeley
Psychodynamic Therapy: The Independent Approach - Kevin Jones
Psychodynamic Therapy: Jungian and Post-Jungian Approaches - Ann Casement
Psychodynamic Therapy: The Kleinian Approach - Julia Segal
PART TWO: THE HUMANISTIC-EXISTENTIAL TRADITION
Person-Centred Therapy - Mike Worrall
Existential Therapy - Emmy van Deurzen
Gestalt Therapy - Dave Mann
Transactional Analysis - Charlotte Sills
PART THREE: THE COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOURAL TRADITION
Cognitive Therapy - Stirling Moorey
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy - Windy Dryden
Compassion-Focused Therapy - Paul Gilbert and Chris Irons
Behavioural Activation - Pierce J. O'Carroll
PART FOUR: OTHER SPECIFIC APPROACHES
Cognitive Analytic Therapy - Mark Dunn
Solution-Focused Therapy - Alasdair J. Macdonald
Interpersonal Therapy - Susan Howard
PART FIVE: BROADER DEVELOPMENTS IN INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
Mindfulness in Individual Therapy - Jody Mardula and Frances Larkin
Narrative Therapy - Martin Payne
The Transpersonal in Individual Therapy - John Rowan
Integrative Therapy - Henry Hollanders
Pluralistic Therapy - John McLeod, Julia McLeod, Mick Cooper and Windy Dryden
PART SIX: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
Research in Individual Therapy - Andrew Reeves
The Training and Supervision of Individual Therapists - Greg Nolan, Jane Macaskie & Bonnie Meekums
