Synopses & Reviews
This major new revised edition of the highly successful Individual Therapy: A Handbook presents a comprehensive and authoritative overview of 12 key approaches to individual therapy. All chapters have been updated or completely rewritten. Britain's leading counselors and psychotherapists introduce their areas of expertise in a concise and accessible format. Each chapter places a specific approach in its historical context, outlines its main theoretical assumptions, and sets out its mode of practice, using ample case examples to illustrate the approach in action. Examining each approach's strengths and limitations, the contributors also clarify how practitioners select clients who can benefit from particular therapies. Chapters also place counseling and psychotherapy in their social context, relate research to actual therapeutic practice, and explore the training and supervision of individual therapists. The Handbook of Individual Therapy is designed for beginning therapists interested in obtaining an overall picture of the practice of individual therapy; experienced therapists and counselors who want to learn about alternative approaches to individual therapy; students of counseling, social work, and applied psychology; as well as any professional in the helping professions.
Synopsis
This is] a book which accepts and even celebrates the diversity of ideas in the field. It stimulates interest and informs. It stirs up debates, and leaves the reader to continue to think about them... an important book, not to be missed by any serious counselling student or practitioner' - British Journal of Guidance and Counselling
This major new edition of the highly successful Individual Therapy: A Handbook presents an authoritative overview of 12 key approaches to individual therapy. All chapters have been updated or completely rewritten.
A distinguished team assembled from among Britain's leading counsellors and psychotherapists introduces the principles and methods of each appro