The Student Guide to Counselling & Psychotherapy Approaches
- origins & background
- big names & big ideas
- how the approach works & who it's for
- critical considerations
- identifying features
- reflection & summary
- learning ideas & suggested reading
This book is essential reading when choosing a professional counselling training in which to specialise, or if you just want an overview of other counselling modalities outside of your own.
Those trained or training in wider metal health and psychology will also find it an useful overview of counselling approaches.
Adrian Pennington is a Counselling Psychologist, Performance Psychologist, Clinical Supervisor, Trainer in Counselling and Mediator.
Good basic book that provides sufficient information on the mainstream approaches
A good basic foundation to give a flavour of the methodology under consideration.
The book contains many of the author's personal opinions, some of which are misleading e.g. p.95 paragraph 3.
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