About the Book

Written specifically for students on counselling and psychotherapy courses, this book gives an overview of the profession from its early beginnings in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis through the development of the different schools and approaches of talking therapies including psychodynamic, cognitive behavioural and person-centred approaches. Working within various sectors, such as the commercial, educational and public, is also considered and discussed. The author concludes the book by looking at where counselling and psychotherapy is heading in the future.

Contents

PART 1: Where has counselling and psychotherapy come from?

  Counselling and psychotherapy – the opening story 

PART 2: What do therapists do?

  Repairing people - the tales begin    The psychodynamic Story    The cognitive-behavioural Story    The humanistic Story    Personality and therapy - today's story 

PART 3: Where do therapists work?

  Working in the commercial sector    Working in the educational sector    Working in the National Health Service 

PART 4: Where is counselling and psychotherapy going?

  Counselling & psychotherapy - the next story

About the Author / Editor

Norman Claringbull

Norman is psychotherapist and former Head of Counselling and Psychotherapy studies at the University of Southampton. In addition to his academic teaching and writing, he maintains a small private practice and, as an acknowledged organisational counselling consultant, he is frequently retained as an advisor/practitioner by many private firms and governmental agencies. This necessarily involves him in a considerable volume of trauma response provision.