People experiencing mental health problems may need to be able to present and explore deeply disturbing thoughts and actions in a safe environment. This book will enable professionals to meet both the needs of clients and the demands of society through a responsible and thoughtful understanding of the significance of confidentiality and disclosure.

Looking at six speakers over the course of a two-and-a-half hour thanksgiving dinner, this work analyzes the features that make up their conversational style, and in particular how these styles function in a positive manner when those style are similar to one another, and in a negative way when they are different.

A patient-oriented manual for complex trauma survivors.

An introduction for undergraduate students to counselling and psychotherapy in different institutional settings.

Describes an innovative approach to therapeutic work which builds on the strengths of children and their parents. As the author's experience shows, helping clients to focus on potential solutions rather than problems can be a powerful means of engaging them in the therapeutic process.

The third edition of this bestselling guide to counselling alcohol problems combines evidence-based examples from the author's personal clinical experience with comprehensive, up-to-date factual information and research.

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.

Provides a series of reflective learning tasks to support counsellors through key stages in training. This book contributes to the process of becoming an effective counsellor by enabling consolidation of personal learning and development, and facilitating the integration of theory, practice and personal experience.

Controversial and powerful - a shocking indictment of the pseudo-science at the heart of modern psychiatry

Controversial and powerful - a shocking indictment of the pseudo-science at the heart of modern psychiatry

A seering critique of how the US is exporting its mental illnesses.

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.

This important new book critically examines a number of aspects of Child and Adolescent Mental Health service provision and practice. It encourages readers to look carefully at some of today's givens and to value intuition and experience, whilst balancing this with our current understanding of the child's mind and its potential disorders.

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.

A complete guide to critical thinking and reflection for mental health students

In 1919 Sian Busby's great-grandmother drowned her twins and was sentenced to an indefinite term of imprisonment at Broadmoor. After the birth of her second son, Busby decided to investigate the story once and for all and lay to rest the ghosts which have haunted the family for 80 years.