Handbook of Counselling Psychology
- Ray Woolfe - Private Practice
- Sheelagh Strawbridge - Independent Practice
- Barbara Douglas - BPS Registrar, Counselling Psychology
- Windy Dryden - Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Counseling & Psychotherapy | Counseling Psychology | Counseling Training & Supervision
This Third Edition of a seminal text reflects new developments with counseling psychology. It covers areas such as neuroscience, narrative approaches and post-modernist thinking. In six sections which include tradition, challenge and change in counseling psychology, difference and discrimination, and professional and ethical issues, the authors have added new chapters including:
- The nature of evidence
- Interpreting case material
- Attachment theory and neuroscience
- Community psychology
- Legal frameworks
- Testing measurement and diagnosis
- The interface between psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic approaches
Special attention has been paid to the research evidence, current issues and debates, theoretical and philosophical underpinnings, political and resource issues, and illustrative case material.
The Handbook is an essential companion for students and practitioners in the field of counseling psychology, at all stages of their career and across the whole range of settings— NHS, education, private and voluntary.
An absolute must-read for any trainee or qualified counselling psychologist seeking to update the core of the profession's identity
The Handbook is comprehensive up to date textbook that helps to confirm counselling psychology as a unique discipline both theoretical and applied.
This third edition is a very much up to date handbook which informs of recent developments in the field of Counselling Psychology relevant to all Counselling Psychologists as well as trainees.
This Handbook provides the reader with an accessible and engaging text which does not overwhelm with the intracacies of the topic area but leads the reader on a journey of discovery and exploration. A good read for an important topic.
Excellent book that includes many useful elements. Needs to include something about EMDR for the next edition though
This is an excellent book to supplement Dryden's Handbook of Individual Therapy. It is comprehensive in its coverage and the expertise of the authors shines through.
Have used and studied similar handbooks, which were preferential to this i.e. The Sage handbook of counselling and psychotherapy
Many people struggle with defining counselling psychology so it is good
to have a definitive text specifically for the discipline. Introduces much relevant material that the reader can follow up in more detail.
Ray Woolfes book fills an obvious gap in the literature with clear linkage between the worlds of applied psychology and that of 'the talking cures'. Each mode, model and interpretation (including those not frequently encountered) is systematically examined and the psychological undercurrents and relationships laid bare. A fantastic work to keep 'at hand'.
Excellent resource for final year undergraduate counselling students.
New to the 3rd Edition:
- The latest edition has considered the major developments within counselling psychology since 2003
- Includes all new content and structure to the book
- Includes greater amount of case study material from a variety of perspectives
- Now has 7 new chapters: The Nature of Evidence, Interpreting Case Material, Attachment Thoery and Neuroscience, Community Psychology, Legal Frameworks, Testing Measurement and Diagnosis, The Interface Between Psychopharmacological and Psychotherapeutic Approaches.