Critical thinking in counselling and psychotherapy [electronic resource] / by Colin Feltham
- Author
- Feltham, Colin, 1950-
- Published
- London : SAGE, [2010]
- Copyright Date
- ©2010
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (vii, 226 pages)
Access Online
- SAGE knowledge: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.What Are the Pros and Cons of Unconditional Positive Regard? -- 2.How Important are Boundaries in Counselling Practice? -- 3.What Form Should Assessment Take? -- 4.Is Eclecticism as Bad as the Bad Press it's Had? -- 5.What are the Pros and Cons of Short-term, Time-limited Counselling? -- 6.What's Wrong with Counsellor Self-disclosure? -- 7.How Crucial are Counselling Ethics? -- 8.Can you Counsel Effectively when Affected by Illness or Personal Troubles? -- 9.Does it Matter if Empathy is not Matched by Personal Experience? -- 10.Is Training Necessary? -- 11.Who is Suitable to be a Counsellor? -- 12.Should Men Counsel? -- 13.How Important is the Trainee's Own Personal Therapy? -- 14.Why Have We Focused on Core Theoretical Models? -- 15.How Much is Theory Related to Practice? -- 16.Are Colleges and Universities the Best Places to Train Counsellors? -- 17.How Necessary is Psychology to Counselling? -- 18.How Might Counselling be Expanded as an Academic Subject? -- 19.Who Founds Schools of Counselling and Why? -- 20.Which Theories of Human Development are Most Relevant in Counselling Training and Practice? -- 21.How do Genes, Personality, Object Relations and Life Events Interact? -- 22.What Roles do Chance, Destiny and Control Play in our Lives? -- 23.What's Wrong with Psychoanalytic Therapy? -- 24.What are the Limitations of the Person-centred Approach? -- 25.What's Wrong with CBT? -- 26.Who Owns Counselling? -- 27.Do we Need Supervision Forever? -- 28.Where is Research Taking us? -- 29.Is Statutory Regulation a Good and Inevitable Development? -- 30.What are the Differences between Counselling, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, Clinical and Counselling Psychology? -- 31.How Buoyant or Otherwise is the Job Market for Counsellors? -- 32.How should we Respond to Clients' Views and Complaints? -- 33.How Important are 'Social Contexts of Counselling' as a Component of Training? -- 34.Can Counselling be a Countercultural Activity? -- 35.How Much should Counsellors Charge? -- 36.Whatever Happened to Self-Analysis, Co-counselling, Group and Social Therapy? -- 37.Are we Counselling on a Dying Planet? -- 38.Does Counselling Rest on Faith and Hope? -- 39.Are Life, Training and Counselling Part of a 'Journey'? -- 40.Can Counselling make you Enlightened? -- 41.Whatever Happened to Free Will and Willpower? -- 42.Do we Need to Have a View about the World/Reality/Existence Itself? -- 43.Is Counselling Non-directive and Value-free? -- 44.Is it All About the Relationship? -- 45.Does the Client Know Best? -- 46.Must Counselling Embrace an Optimistic View of Human Nature and Potential? -- 47.Can Counselling or Psychotherapy Help people with Serious Mental Health Problems? -- 48.Are we all Neurotic? -- 49.Are there Limits to Personal Change in Counselling? -- 50.Which Undiscovered Diagnostic Categories Might There Be? -- 51.Is the Human Species Anthropathological? -- 52.How much Depends on the Client? -- 53.Is Counselling Primarily a Heartfelt Activity? -- 54.Is Counselling Scientific? -- 55.What to Think about Suicide? -- 56.What is the Future for Couple Counselling? -- 57.Why has Counselling had So Many Detractors? -- 58.To what Extent is Counselling Reliant on Illusions? -- 59.Who is the 'Person of Tomorrow'? -- 60.What does the Writer Really Think? -- Appendix 1: Sample of Critical Textual Analysis -- Appendix 2: Some Critical Thinking Matters in Therapeutic Practice -- Appendix 3: Additional Questions.
- Summary
- This innovative textbook examines the critical debates around key topics in counselling & psychotherapy. In nine sections including everyday counselling practice, training & curriculum issues, & counselling, society & culture, the author explores & cross-references 60 provocative questions central to counselling training & practice.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781446288405 (ebook)
- Audience Notes
- Specialized.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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