Brief Therapeutic Consultations: An Approach to Systemic Counselling (Wiley Series in Brief Therapy & Counselling) - Softcover

Street, Eddy; Downey, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471963437 ISBN 13: 9780471963431

Publisher: Wiley, 1996

Synopsis

How do clients perceive the counselling process? What do they require from it? Counsellors and therapists are increasingly aware of the need to bring the client s viewpoint into the therapeutic relationship. Both the effectiveness of the process, and the need to meet the client s needs in a service context, have demanded more awareness of the client s perceptions and needs. This book provides a practical framework which describes how to construct a client counsellor relationship which is brief, collaborative and consultative in purpose but therapeutic in form. Counsellors, social workers, nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists and all professionals engaged in counselling activities, whether in a workplace or mental health care context, will welcome this essential and practical guide to more effective therapeutic consultations. Readers will also appreciate the concise overview of the theoretical basis of this approach. This book appears in the Wiley Series in Brief Therapy and Counselling Series Editor: Windy Dryden Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

About this title

From the Publisher:

This book outlines the theory and practice of brief therapeutic consultations. Based on a life-cycle perspective and using a systematic framework, this approach seeks to involve the consultant counsellor with clients in a straightforward exchange about the nature of the problem as perceived by the client. The principal elements of the model are one or two consultation interviews. Then opinions, advice, or discussion points are offered by the consultants. Follow-ups are organised which focus on movement since the original consultation. This volume offers an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of this approach and covers in a practical manner the steps involved in seeing clients in this way.

About the Author:

Eddy Street and Jim Downey are the authors of Brief Therapeutic Consultations: An Approach to Systemic Counselling, published by Wiley.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0471963437
• ISBN 13: 9780471963431
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 174