| Experiences of Counselling in Action Contributor(s): Mearns, Dave (Editor), Dryden, Windy (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0803981937 ISBN-13: 9780803981935 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $59.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1990 Annotation: How do clients view the counseling process? How do counselors and therapists view their experiences in working with clients? Experiences of Counselling in Action answers these and other questions by presenting personal accounts of individual clients and counselors. Each individual relates their distinct counseling experience by exploring such issues as identity, expectations, trust, power, and the client-counselor relationship. In addition, each examines the intense personal meaning of "success" or "failure" in their respective roles. Tightly edited and well-written, this impressive volume provides important insights into this crucial dimension of the counseling experience. It will prove of great value to students and professionals in the areas of mental health, counseling and clinical psychology, and social work. "A strikingly original book. . . . A carefully crafted tapestry of chapters which takes the reader through much of the joy and despair of the therapeutic enterprise in a way which is always interesting and often deeply moving. . . . The richness of these chapters, as indeed of the whole book, will provide much encouragement to counsellors especially in their darkest hours." --British Journal fo Medical Psychology "It provides a stimulus for further study of many important and 'cutting edge' ideas not readily amenable to empirical research investigation. A book most imortant to all counseling and psychotherapy practitioners. Graduate level." --Choice "This often moving book offers important insights into a crucial dimension of counselling in action." --Association for Pastoral Care and Counselling "This is a book which would be equally useful to the humanistic practitioner andthe more orthodox one. The breadth of sympathy is admirable in dealing with what is common to all orientations. This is one of those rare book which does justice both to the human experiences involved in counselling and psychotherapy, and to the theory which might explain those experiences." --Changes "[The] materal has been well consolidated by its presentation, which is well planned and clearly laid out. . . .I think the book is a very important addition to the practitioner's bookshelf, mostly because its contents allow counsellors and trainers to reflect upon their work and their profession as a whole." --British Journal of Guidance and Counselling |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychotherapy - Counseling - Psychology | Psychotherapy - General |
| Dewey: 158.3 |
| LCCN: 89-063698 |
| Series: Counselling in Action |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 6.01" W x 8.12" (0.46 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How hard it is to find a book to recommend to trainees, which will give them an insight into what counselling (and psychotherapy too, for that matter) is really like. This book does exactly that... This is a book which would be equally useful to the humanistic practitioner and the more orthodox one. The breadth of sympathy is admirable in dealing with what is common to all orientations. This is one of those rare books which does justice both to the human experiences involved in counselling and psychotherapy, and to the theory which might explain those experiences′ - Changes What is the experience of counselling from the perspectives of both client and counsellor? What can be learned for the |
Contributor Bio(s): Mearns, Dave: - Dave Mearns is formerly Director of the Counselling Unit and Professor of Counselling at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Dave is author or co-author of four other counselling books published by SAGE: Person-Centred Counselling in Action, Second Edition, Experiences of Counselling in Action, Person-Centred Counselling Training and Person-Centred Therapy Today: New Frontiers in Theory and Practice. Dryden, Windy: - 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. |