Synopses & Reviews
The need for time-limited counseling--the provision of effective counseling with limited resources under strict time pressures--is growing more important due to insurance paradigm and other systemic changes. In this clearly written book, Colin Feltham outlines the practical, technical skills, strategies, and knowledge counselors must have in order to undertake time-limited counseling. Incorporating useful illustrative examples, he takes readers step by step through the counseling process and describes the most appropriate models of time-limited counseling for different clients and problems. Further chapters assess the management of time-limited counseling in different settings--including private practice--and look at research, training, and supervision issues. Time-Limited Counseling addresses the issues facing trainee and experienced counselors and is an invaluable guide for those who choose or are obliged to work within a time-limited framework.
Synopsis
Focusing on brief and time-limited therapies, this series of books is aimed at students, beginning and experienced counsellors, therapists and other members of the helping professions who need to know more about working with the specific skills, theories and practices involved in this demanding but vital area of their work.
Synopsis
Excellent... the book] explores the provision of effective counselling with limited resources and under strict time pressures... with some excellent writing on the nature of time and attitudes to time in counselling and psychotherapy... the evidence in favour of short-term counselling] is put strongly. Colin Feltham favours it as an approach of choice for certain clients, which should coexist with (rather than adversarially seek to oust and replace) longer-term therapy... he draws from a wide range of literature, while identifying those key ingredients, skills and strategies that he has found especially significant. He also discusses some of the different contexts in which this work operates... Many of the questions and issues he poses
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-169) and index.