This compendium serves
as an excellent reference point for an academic as well
as practitioner. It is an exceptional
achievement!
Dr Ladislav Timulak, Trinity
College Dublin, Ireland
[It] continues to be the
book that one turns to when looking for a clear
introduction to the broad range of talking cures 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, Transpersonal
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.
Prof Windy Dryden
currently works at Goldsmiths College where he is
Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies as well as being
the programme co-ordinator of the MSc in
Rational-Emotive & Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and
the Diploma in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
Andrew
Reeves is a BACP Senior Accredited
Counsellor/Psychotherapist and freelance trainer and
writer. He is a former Editor Counselling and
Psychotherapy Research journal.
