An Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy: From Theory to Practice - Softcover

Reeves, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857020552 ISBN 13: 9780857020550

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

An Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy takes professional trainees through the entire therapeutic process, introducing the theory and applying it to real-life practice. It is, in short, an authoritative introduction to everything a trainee needs to know to become a professional therapist. Drawing on years of experience as a counseling practitioner and researcher, Andrew Reeves provides a uniquely practical consideration of counseling and psychotherapy theory, linked to the development of appropriate skills and located within the context of therapeutic practice today.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Review

′Andrew Reeves has produced a very useful and clear introduction to the field. An excellent addition to Sage′s growing list on counselling and\psychotherapy′ -
Windy Dryden, Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies and Programme Co-ordinator of the MSc in Rational-Emotive and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy at Goldsmiths, University of London

′I have taught on both postgraduate diploma and masters programmes for counselling training, and would have really appreciated having this book available to myself and the students. I would have no problems in recommending this book to trainee counsellors′ -
Judith Fewell, Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh

This is a mightily ambitious book, and one which I would have probably hugged on discovering a decade ago, as I muddled my way through the difficult decision to re-train as a therapist. It’s not just the sheer volume of information it contains that is impressive, but all the generous thoughts and ideas that go with it – chapter overviews and plenty of re-caps, further online and offline reading suggestions, discussion points, skills practice sections, case vignettes and even a companion website offering PowerPoints for tutors. Ultimately it achieves what it sets out to be: ‘a book about practice, by a practitioner’ – and one I’d highly recommend to anyone lured by the idea of a career in talking therapy. Author: Julia Bueno Source: Private Practice Published On: 2013-10-03

Questions for discussion and pauses for reflection encourage active engagement with the text. Other features include numerous case studies, suggestions for further reading and a companion website with additional resources. The book is clearly set out and thoroughly user-friendly, which should make it a helpful companion along the way for anyone contemplating counselling or therapy training, and a great resource for trainers. Author: Dr Els van Ooijen Published On: 2014-01-06

This book happily combines authoritative knowledge and experience with a winning and engaging style... it is certainly worth the price of the paperback as an investment not only for trainees, but also for qualified counsellors wanting to keep up with their thinking and development.

Author: David Quarmby Source: Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0857020552
• ISBN 13: 9780857020550
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496