Books in the Developing Counselling series series

Describing contemporary integrative Gestalt counselling and psychotherapy, this book addresses 30 key issues which helps both trainee and practising counsellors examine and improve crucial areas of their work.

Contains practical suggestions and appendices to help practising and trainee supervisors develop and enhance the skills they need to be successful in their work. This book covers such key areas as creating a supervisory alliance, fostering supervisory relationship, use of tape-recording and highlighting supervisees' strengths and weaknesses.

Contains 30 useful hints and reminders to help both trainee and practising counsellors examine and improve key areas of their work. This book covers topics such as the formation of an ethical and productive alliance, working with effective tasks and goals, and identifying and addressing clients' obstacles to change.

Explores the opportunities for counsellors to develop their own practice of psychodynamic counselling. This title encourages readers to look carefully at the way they work and to think about strategies to improve their skills in a specialized form of relating. It also examines areas crucial to the psychodynamic approach.

Offering conceptualizations of many common client problems, this book develops the cognitive-behavioural counselling approach. It elaborates the specifics of tackling problems as diverse as surviving in a family with a personality disordered member and post-traumatic stress disorder.

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.

Offers 30 practical suggestions to help practising counsellors develop and enhance their Transactional Analysis (TA) counselling skills. After an introductory section that summarizes the uses of TA theory and technique, this book covers crucial aspects of best practice in TA.