| Working with Risk in Counselling and Psychotherapy Contributor(s): Reeves, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 1446272915 ISBN-13: 9781446272916 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $44.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychotherapy - Counseling - Study Aids | Professional - General |
| Dewey: 158.3 |
| LCCN: 2014942359 |
| Series: Essential Issues in Counselling and Psychotherapy - Andrew R |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.48 lbs) 184 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The wide-ranging contexts in which counselling and psychotherapy is now practiced means clients present with a range of risks that therapists have to respond to. Risk is an ever-present issue for counsellors and psychotherapists and, in an increasingly litigious culture, the need for trainees to develop a sound understanding of how the right tools and the right knowledge can support their practice has never been greater. In this book Andrew Reeves takes trainees, newly qualified practitioners, and more experienced practitioners step-by-step through what is meant by risk, offering practical hints and tips and links to policy and research to inform good ethical practice along the way. This book tackles: - The definition of risk and how risk is linked to social, psychological and relational factors - Working with those who are at risk of suicide, self-injury, self-harm and/or are an endangerment to others - How therapists should respond to the risk in situations involving child protection, mental health crises, and in the therapeutic process itself - The positive side of risk-taking - How counsellors and psychotherapists can work with risk proactively and positively, informed by research. Filled with case studies, ethical dilemmas, reflective questions, discussion questions and further reading, this book offers counsellors and psychotherapists guidance on how they can work with risk proactively and positively. It is an essential resource for all services, organisations and individual practitioners. |
Contributor Bio(s): Reeves, Andrew: - Dr Andrew Reeves has worked as a counsellor and supervisor in various settings for over twenty years. Originally qualified as a social worker, he specialised in child protection and adult mental health before moving to working full-time as a counsellor at the University of Liverpool. Following the death by suicide of one of his clients early in his career, he undertook extensive research into ways in which counsellors and psychotherapists work with suicidal clients and he has written extensively about this since. His recent book with SAGE, Counselling Suicidal Clients (2010), has quickly become a popular title, as has Key Issues for Counselling in Action (second edition), which he co-edited with Professor Windy Dryden. His award-winning training DVD, Tight Ropes and Safety Nets: Counselling Suicidal Clients (with Jon Shears and Sue Wheeler) is now being used by many therapy training programmes throughout the UK. His new book, An Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy: From Theory to Practice (2013) has several aims: to help provide prospective students of counselling and psychotherapy with information to support their training decisions; to help integrate theory into their early steps in working with clients on a practice placement; and to help bridge the move from qualification into practice as a therapist. He has other new projects in the pipeline, including editing the new series Essential Issues for Counselling and Psychotherapy, in which he will be writing the new title Working with Risk in Counselling and Psychotherapy, as well as working with Windy Dryden on the sixth edition of the bestselling SAGE text, The Handbook of Individual Therapy. |
