On Being a Client: Understanding the Process of Counselling and Psychotherapy - Hardcover

Howe, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803988885 ISBN 13: 9780803988880

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

`This book explores what clients have to say about their experience of the psychotherapeutic process. David Howe observes that, regardless of the therapist′s theoretical orientation, clients say similar things about their experience of being helped (and not being helped). It is the non-specifics of genuineness, a secure trusting atmosphere, empathy and warmth that offer the vehicle for encouraging a dialogue of personal intimate material, and of "making sense" and understanding when we are in pain, puzzled or worried... This is an easy and gentle read... For those interested in Attachment Theory, this would be a useful addition to their bookshelf′ - Clinical Psychology Forum

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About the Author

David Howe is Senior Lecturer in the School of Economic and Social Studies at the University of East Anglia. His publications include The Consumers′ View of Family Therapy (1989) and, with P Sawbridge and D Hinings, Half a Million Women: Mothers Who Lose Their Children by Adoption (1992).

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0803988885
• ISBN 13: 9780803988880
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224