Experiences of Counselling in Action

1. Auflage 1989
ISBN: 978-0-8039-8193-5
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 216 g

Reihe: Counselling in Action series

`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 practice of counselling from an understanding of how it feels to be a client or a counsellor? Addressing these questions, central to this book are the personal accounts of individual clients and counsellors, who each relate their own very different experiences of counselling. They explore such issues as identity, expectations, trust, power and boundaries in the client-counsellor relationship. And each examines the intense personal meanings of `success' or `failure' in the client or counsellor role. An analysis of the implications for the counselling relationship concludes the volume.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mearns, Dave

Dryden, Windy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie Psychologische Diagnostik, Testpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Client's Experience of Counselling and Psychotherapy - John McLeod
A Review of the Research Literature
A Client's Experience of Failure - Laura Allen
A Client's Experience of Success - Myra Grierson
The Experience of Couple Counselling - Paul and Rosanne
The Client Becomes a Counsellor - Brendan McLoughlin
The Practitioner's Experience of Counselling and Psychotherapy - John McLeod
A Review of the Research Literature
The Counsellor's Experience of Failure - Dave Mearns
The Counsellor's Experience of Success - Dave Mearns
My Experience of Counselling Couples - Senga Blackie
What Might be Learned from these Experiences of Counselling in Action? - Dave Mearns and Windy Dryden

Über Autor(innen)

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.

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.