Table of Contents

PART ONE: COUNSELLING APPROACHES
Introduction to Part One
Challenging the Core Theoretical Model - Colin Feltham
A Sound Foundation for Counsellor Competence - Sue Wheeler
The Case for a Core Theoretical Model
On the Quest for a Person-Centred Paradigm - Ivan Ellingham
Solution-Focused Therapy in Practice - Christina Saunders
A Personal Experience
Person-Centred Counselling and Solution-Focused Therapy - Jonathan Hales
Problem-Solving Counselling - Michael Neenan and Stephen Palmer
On Becoming a Psychodynamic Counsellor - John Lees
Learning about Countertransference
Mentoring as Change Agency - John O′Brien
A Psychodynamic Approach
Towards Cognitive-Humanistic Counselling - Richard Nelson-Jones
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy - Michael Neenan and Windy Dryden
An Overview
Psychosynthesis - Diana Whitmore
A Psychology With a Soul
In the Counsellor′s Chair - Stephen Palmer interviews Professor Arnold A Lazarus
Multi-Modal Therapy
From Education to Art Therapy - Sydney Klugman
Writing - A Therapeutic Space - Gillie Bolton
Opening the Box
A Relational Model of Counselling - Geoff Pelham, Stephen Paul and Peter Holmes
PART TWO COUNSELLING CONTEXTS AND PRACTICE
Introduction to Part Two
Counselling Holocaust Survivors - Irene Bloomfield
An Experience of Intercultural Counselling - Tuck Chee Phung
Views from a Black Client
In the Counsellor′s Chair - Aisha Dupont-Joshua interviews Lennox Thomas
Inter-Cultural Counselling
Issues Raised in a Counselling Support Group for HIV+ People in Zambia - Tom[um]as Campbell, Tashisho Chabala and Gita Sheth
Group Therapy for Women with Eating Problems - Cathy Richards and Catherine McKisack
A Further Look at Group Therapy for Women with Eating Disorders in a University Setting - Peter Ross
General Practice Counselling - Richard House
A Plea for Ideological Engagement
Depression - Janet Boakes
The Aftermath of Suicide - Alice Middleton and David I Williams
The Limitations of Current Theories in Understanding Bereavement and Grief - Peter Farrell
The Social Model of Disability - Tony Makin
A Deaf Counselling Trainee - Pauline Monks and Linda Martin
Can It Work?
Counselling Women in Prison - Angela Devlin
Counselling Intervention with Men Who Batter - Calvin Bell
Partner Safety and the Duty to Warn
A Fair Deal for Lesbians in Therapy - Cordelia Galgut
A Point of View and an Ethical Issue?
Working with Lesbian and Gay Clients - Lyndsey Moon
Adopted and at home With the World - Lesley Marks
A Message for Coubsellors
Working with Children in a Family and Divorce Centre - Birgit Carolin
Critical Incident Debriefing - Frank Parkinson
Psychological Trauma - Suzanna Rose
An Historical Perspective
Stress Management and Counselling - Michael Neenan and Stephen Palmer
The Aftermath of Abuse - Moira Walker
The Effects of Counselling on the Client and the Counsellor
Child Sexual Abuse - Colin Crawford and Billy McCullough
The Wider Context
Attitudes to Ageing - Yvonne Craig
Its Social Construction, Deconstruction and Reconstruction
Partnership - Jane Robins
Some Effects of Childhood Scripts on Intimate Relationships
PRACTICAL APPROACHES
Introduction to Practical Approaches
Reflective Practice - Gladeana McMahon
Assessment and Contracting - Gabrielle Syme
Referral Letters - Sue Warren-Holland
Case-Study Writing - Mary Parker
Note-taking and Administration for Counselling Supervisors - Gladeana McMahon
PART THREE: COUNSELLING ISSUES
Introduction to Part Three
The Wisest Counsel? - Raj Persaud
Can Psychotherapies Seriously Damage Your Health? - Pittu Laungani
Therapy Checklist for Clients and Those Already in Therapy - Stephen Palmer and Kasia Szymanska
Making the Most of Therapy - Sheila Dainow
How to Help Clients Get the Best from You
In the Counsellor′s Chair - Judith Longman interviews Professor Ernesto Spinelli
Counselling and the Abuse of Power
Ethics for the Counselling Office - Petruska Clarkson
′Menage a Trois′ - Janice Russell and Graham Dexter
Accreditation, NVQs and BAC
Whither Are We Led and by Whom? - John Foskett
A Reaction to ′Menage a Trois′
The Role of Group Work in Counsellor Training - Judi Irving and Dave I Williams
The Case for Group Work in Counsellor Training - Amelia Lyons
A Response
HMIs Powers to Inspect Student Counsellors - Tim Bond
In the Counsellor′s Chair - Stephen Palmer interviews Ms Ling Gui Rui and Ms Hou Zhijin
Student Counselling and Counsellor Training in China
Counsellor in Court - Pemma Littlehailes
Confidentiality and the Law - Roger Litton, Mark Scoggins and Stephen Palmer
From Transference to False Memory - Peter Jenkins
Counsellor Liability in an Age of Litigation
Solution-Focused Supervision - Bill O′Connell and Caroline Jones
Supervising Short-Term Psychodynamic Work - Gertrud Mander
On the Death of a Client - Maureen Murphy
Farewell Sonia - Jackie de Smith
Empathy and the ′As If′ Condition - Susan Ridge, David Martin and William Campbell
Any Room for Conscious Identification
Congruence and Countertransference - Paul Wilkins
Similarities and Differences
Humour in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship - Marie Adams
Not to Be Trifled with
COUNSELLING DILEMMAS
Introduction to Counselling Dilemmas
Clients Ending Counselling - Fiona Palmer-Barnes, Gabrielle Syme, Stephen Crawford, Michael Jacobs and Joy Schaverien
To Hug a Client - Or Not? - Fiona Palmer-Barnes, Gill Westland, Diana Whitmore, Caroline Jones and May Brun
Suicide Threat - Caroline Jones, Fiona Palmer-Barnes, Hillary Ratna and Anne Garland
PRACTICE DILEMMAS
Clients Becoming Counsellors? - Susie Lendrum, Roger Casemore, Janet Watson and Simon Needs
Student Appeals - Roger Casemore, Cathy Carroll, Janet Tolan, Gaye Giles and Derek Hill
Counsellors Ending Counselling - Simon Needs, Derek Hill, Dawn Collins, Carole Pucknell and Val Potter
A Bereaved Counsellor and Supervision - Gladeana McMahon, Bill O′Connell, Roger Casemore and Fiona Purdie
PART FOUR: COUNSELLING AND RESEARCH
Introduction to Part Four
What is Truth? - Gordon Lynch
A Philosophical Introduction to Counselling Research
Critical Subjectivity - William West
Use of the Self in Counselling Research
Do Brief Interventions Reduce Waiting Times for Counselling? - Judith M Brech and Peter L Agulnik
Primary Care Counsellors′ Experiences of Supervision - Mary Burton, Penny Henderson and Graham Curtis Jenkins
On What Basis Do General Practitioners Make Referrals? - Margaret Ward and Del Lowenthal
Counselling Supervision - David King and Sue Wheeler
To Regulate or Not to Regulate?
Students′ Everyday Problems - Andrew Grayson, David Clarke and Hugh Miller
A Systematic Qualitative Analysis
Cross-Cultural / Racial Matching in Counselling and Therapy - Roy Moodley and Shukla Dhingra
White Clients and Black Counsellors
Therapeutic Issues for Sexually Abused Adult Males - Kim Etherington
Marketing Counselling Courses - Patricia Hunt
PART FIVE: FUTURE TRENDS
Introduction to Part Five
The Move Towards Brief Therapy - Brian Thorne
Its Dangers and Its Challenges
The Professionalisation of Counselling - Sue Wheeler
Is it Possible?
Counselling as a Social Process - John McLeod
Counselling and Psychotherapy in a Multicultural Context - Roy Moodley
Some Training Issues
Computer Therapeutics - Colin Lago
Counselling by e-mail - Steve Page
The Challenge of the Internet - Stephen Goss, Dave Robson and Deborah E Renard
PART SIX: THE LAST WORD
Introduction to Part Six
Preparing the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy for a New Future - Kenneth J Lewis

About the Author

Professor Stephen Palmer PhD is an award winning psychologist and psychotherapist. He is Founder Director of the Centre for Stress Management, London. He is the UK′s first Visiting Professor of Work Based Learning and Stress Management at Middlesex University. He has authored/edited over 50 books including The Beginner′s Guide to Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2015). He is Co-editor of the European Journal of Counselling Theory, Research and Practice. Currently he is Honorary President of the International Stress Management Association; President of the International Society for Coaching Psychology; Founder Co-Chair of the London Branch of the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies; a Founder Director and Vice President of the Society of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and a Director and Deputy Chair of the Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. His interests include jazz, art and coastal walking.

 

Reviews

`Counselling brings together in one volume a collection of some of the finest work to have appeared over the past few years in the journal of the same name, put out by the BACP....it tackles some of the mainstream issues about which one may wich to refresh one′s knowledge, but manages to get right to the fringes in places one may find rather intriguing and novel (eg. General practice counselling: A plea for idealogocal engagement, Counselling interventions with men who batter: Partner safety and the duty to warn and The aftermath of abuse: The effects of counselling on the client and the counsellor)′ - New Therapist `This Second Volume of Counselling: the BACP Counselling Reader is a comprehensive array of articles which convey the breadth and depth of the specialty as it grew during the 1990s. The volume brings together the most important and influential papers published in Counselling, the official journal of the British Association for Counselling as it then was, over the last decade. In all, 92 articles have been chosen and scrupulously checked by the editors and, in most cases, the original authors, to fill the 670 pages of the second volume. These provide direct access to the main theories, practices and issues which underpinned and continue to shape counselling and psychotherapy today. Each article concludes with discussion points to provoke further thought and study. For ease of access these papers are clustered in five sections: counselling approaches, contexts and practice, counselling issues, research, the future. We can expect the number of research articles to double in the next volume as the way opens up for all practitioners to consider research a crucial part of professional life. The final section on the future has been written by the past Chief Executive of BACP, and contains insight and wisdom on the challenges facing the profession at the dawn of the new century, with statutory regulation only a few years away. BACP receives many requests for back copies of the journal, Counselling, upon which this Reader is based, for use in training courses and programme. The Second Volume of the Reader merits at least one copy in every medical library across the land for use not only in counselling and psychotherapy training, but for all those healthcare workers who use counselling skills in their work′ - Maggie Pettifer, past Head of Publishing of BACP for Counselling and Psychotherapy Research