Focuses on women whose eating patterns have generated side-effects on other aspects of their lives such as work, health and family. This book is useful for trainees and experienced counsellors, members of support organisations, and women suffering from eating disorders, their friends and families.

Robert De Board's engaging account of Toad's experience of counselling will capture the imagination of the growing readership of people who are interested in counselling and the counselling process.

A handbook for practitioners, trainers and student counselors who are interested in the experience of aging and old age. It offers practical advice on how to develop an approach to counseling which is both age-affirmative and thoroughly in tune with the needs of older clients.

Counselling is a diverse activity and there are an increasing number of people who find themselves using counselling skills, not least those in the caring professions. There is a great deal of scope in using counselling skills to promote health in the everyday encounters that nurses have with their patients.

It is sobering to think that this book, ground-breaking in 1996, still stands practically alone in looking at class, politics and counselling. This book has received unequivocally enthusiastic reviews in a wide range of journals. Many counsellor-educators have put it on their 'essential reading' list. Put it on yours now.

Focusing on the experiences of counsellors themselves, this book is a comprehensive resource for counsellors working in health contexts and for the health professionals who work with them, and may take on counselling roles, which will inform and improve their work.

This optimistic and practical book explores what makes a happy relationship and how to develop your skills in seven key areas: becoming more outgoing, listening better, communicating assertively and managing anger, showing you care, sharing intimacy, enjoying sex together and managing problems.

A student guide to developing a strong relationship with counselling clients

Aims to teach us to 'unlearn' the rigid patterns of thought that we are indoctrinated with and to escape the confines of memory, association and, most importantly, words. This book teaches how to regain our senses and return to that original world. It provides work on enlightenment and visualisation.

Critical Suicidology introduces alternative approaches to suicide prevention, approaches that don't pathologize inequality and distress but rather take into consideration the social, political, and cultural contexts of people's lives.

Helps you to learn, compare, and apply the major systems of psychotherapy. This title presents the basic principles of the system, discussing it in the context of the other systems. It includes a case example that guides you through the problem, evaluation, treatment, and follow-up process.

Every time we are introduced to someone new, try to be creative, or start a difficult conversation, we take a risk. We feel exposed. Most of us try to fight those feelings, we strive to appear perfect. In this book, the author challenges everything we think we know about vulnerability, and dispels the accepted myth that it's a weakness.

This updated second edition covers the symptoms, possible causes, and the wide range of current treatments available for depression. Written by one of the world's leading authorities on depression and suicide, this book will provide a useful overview of depression for sufferers, their families/carers, and health care professionals.

This text offers a perspective on the history of our fascination with culture's discontents and describes the continuing importance of psychoanalysis in cultural studies.

Developing Person-Centred Counselling, Second Edition is designed to help counsellors improve their skills within the person-centred approach. With chapters on growth and transference, the book covers the subjects which are central to person-centred training. The book is supported by case material and examples from practice.

Assists clinicians and traumatologists in "making the bridge" between their clinical knowledge and skills and the unique, complex, chaotic and highly political field of disaster. It combines information from a reservoir of prior research and literature, as well as from the authors' experience.

Miller believes that violence and crime in society have their roots in conventional child rearing and in education which can create a childhood prison. Miller describes how her discoveries can create freedom from this prison. This edition has been revised since her renunciation of psychoanalysis.

An essential guide to using counselling skills and approaches with young people.

This book presents a development of cognitive therapy based on clinical experience and evidence, which offers guidelines for innovative treatments of emotional disorders and conceptual arguments through the concept of metacognition for the future development of cognitive therapy.

A timely contribution to the debate, this book clarifies the processes involved in social interactions and relationships whilst serving as a practical and theoretical resource for teachers and other professionals.

How to retrain our brain to improve our emotional behaviour by pioneering neuroscientist

This handbook offers therapists an approach to helping clients live in harmony with head and heart. Offering clinical wisdom, practical guidance and case illustration, Leslie Greenberg presents an empirically-supported model of training clients to attain emotional wisdom.

This book guides the mental health professional back to the roots of treatment and a return to the more basic practice patterns.