Critical thinking in counselling and psychotherapy. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Colin Feltham.
• Other Names: Feltham, Colin, 1950-
• Contents: Introduction: What Is Critical Thinking?; PART ONE: EVERYDAY COUNSELLING PRACTICE; What Are the Pros and Cons of Unconditional Positive Regard?; How Important Are Boundaries in Counselling Practice?; What Form Should Assessment Take?; Is Eclecticism as Bad as the Bad Press It's Had?; What Are the Pros and Cons of Short-Term, Time-Limited Counselling?; What's Wrong with Counsellor Self-Disclosure?; How Crucial Are Counselling Ethics?; Can You Counsel Effectively When Affected by Illness or Personal Troubles?; Does It Matter if Empathy Is Not Matched by Personal Experience?; PART TWO: TRAINING AND CURRICULUM ISSUES; Is Training Necessary?; Who Is Suitable to Be a Counsellor?; Should Men Counsel?; How Important Is the Trainee's Own Personal Therapy?; Why Have We Focused on Core Theoretical Models?; How Much Is Theory Related to Practice?; Are Colleges and Universities the Best Places to Train Counsellors?; How Necessary Is Psychology to Counselling?; How Might Counselling Be Expanded as an Academic Subject?; PART THREE: THEORIES OF COUNSELLING PRACTICE; Who Founds Schools of Counselling and Why?; Which Theories of Human Development Are Most Relevant in Counselling Training and Practice?; How Do Genes, Personality, Object Relations and Life Events Interact?; What Roles Do Chance, Destiny and Control Play in Our Lives?; What's Wrong with Psychoanalytic Therapy?; What Are the Limitations of the Person-centred Approach?; What's Wrong with CBT?; PART FOUR: PROFESSIONAL ISSUES AND INFRASTRUCTURES; Who Owns Counselling?; Do We Need Supervision Forever?; Where Is Research Taking us?; Is Statutory Regulation a Good and Inevitable Development?; What Are the Differences between Counselling, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, Clinical and Counselling Psychology?; How Buoyant or Otherwise Is the Job Market for Counsellors?; How Should We Respond to Clients' Views and Complaints?; PART FIVE: COUNSELLING, SOCIETY AND CULTURE; How Important Are 'Social Contexts of Counselling' as a Component of Training?; Can Counselling be a Countercultural Activity?; How Much Should Counsellors Charge?; Whatever happened to Self-Analysis, Co-Counselling, Group and Social Therapy?; Are We Counselling on a Dying Planet?; PART SIX: SPIRITUAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES; Does Counselling Rest on Faith and Hope?; Are Life, Training and Counselling Part of a 'Journey'?; Can Counselling Make You Enlightened?; Whatever Happened to Free Will and Willpower?; Do we Need to Have a View about the World/Reality/Existence Itself?; PART SEVEN: COUNSELLING WISDOM; Is Counselling Non-directive and Value-Free?; Is It All about the Relationship?; Does the Client Know Best?; Must Counselling Embrace an Optimistic View of Human Nature and Potential?; PART EIGHT: THE SPECTRUM OF SUFFERING; Can Counselling or Psychotherapy Help People with Serious Mental-Health Problems?; Are We All Neurotic?; Are There Limits to Personal Change in Counselling?; Which Undiscovered Diagnostic Categories Might There Be?; Is the Human Species Anthropathological?; PART NINE: PERENNIAL AND CURRENT TOPICS; How Much Depends on the Client?; Is Counselling Primarily a Heartfelt Activity?; Is Counselling Scientific?; What to Think about Suicide?; What Is the Future for Couple Counselling?; Why Has Counselling Had So Many Detractors?; To What Extent Is Counselling Reliant on Illusions?; Who Is the 'Person of Tomorrow'?; What Does the Writer Really Think?;
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (240 pages)
• Subjects: 158.3; Counseling; Psychotherapy; Critical thinking; Counseling; Psychotherapy; Thinking
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781446242070; 1446242072
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