The first account of its kind, Handbook of Counseling Psychology provides comprehensive coverage of counseling psychology in contemporary Britain. Leading counseling psychologists thoroughly examine all the major areas and concerns in the field, including theories and practice, methodology, social and professional issues, themes, practice contexts, lifecycle and developmental issues, ethics, and future developments. Particular emphasis is placed in each chapter on research and its implications for practice. This groundbreaking book also addresses the issues faced by today′s counseling psychologists, such as those associated with gender, race, disability, social class, and sexual orientation.
Offering a unique perspective, Handbook of Counseling Psychology examines counseling psychology themes that are relevant to professionals around the world. Students as well as practicing professionals and researchers will find this volume an invaluable reference resource.
Ray Woolfe is a Counselling Psychologist in private practice.
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.