Questions and Answers on Counselling in Action

What are the advantages and disadvantages of brief psychotherapy? Is it easy to start your own practice? Should only women counsel women? Questions such as these, and others contained in this volume, reflect many of the current concerns of both experienced and new therapists as they work or study in the field today. In Questions and Answers on Counseling in Action, leading experts provide clear and thoughtful answers to their concerns--which cover all aspects of psychotherapy--from theoretical issues to personal and ethical matters. Some questions have straightforward solutions. Others, however, are more provocative and less easily tackled. Either way, the contributors′ opinions will go a long way toward encouraging deeper thinking and promoting much needed-discussions about the daily problems facing professionals at all stages and of all disciplines. Topical and thought-provoking, Questions and Answers on Counseling in Action will provide a useful resource for all practitioners of psychotherapy. "This is a welcome and useful addition the ′Counselling in Action′ series." --Clinical Psychology Forum

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.