Books in the Skills in Counselling & Psychotherapy Series series

A step-by-step guide to the core techniques used by practitioners in achieving therapeutic change using the cognitive behavioural approach, this new edition drills down into the skills required at each stage of the therapeutic process and with the therapeutic relationship at the core shows trainees practically how to build and maintain a successful working alliance with their clients.

Draws on author's years of experience in the field to provide a practical resource for qualified and trainee counsellors, providing them with the necessary skills to ensure best practice with children and young people.

A practical and accessible guide to the gestalt approach, now with updated content on trauma, mindfulness and awareness and new case examples and exercises.

Introducing a comprehensive therapeutic approach, this work combines theories of the mind, emotions, behaviour and bodily experience. Following the typical pattern of working with a client, it describes the key features of Transactional Analysis (TA) and its basic building blocks - ego states, transactions, games, and scripts.

This is a step-by-step guide to the key skills and techniques of the psychodynamic approach used at each stage of the therapeutic process. It not only addresses how to implement skills, but also why they are being implemented.

'A clear, concise and eminently accessible guide to existential practice that just got better' - Mick Cooper????, University of Roehampton?????

With exercises and case studies, this book includes chapter on debates and developments, politics, prejudice, power and privilege; and client perception.

From one of the biggest names in counselling, this book provides an active-directive approach to rational emotive behaviour counselling

This is the first book to look at the practical skills specific to Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, making it ideal for trainees preparing to practice in today's busy and often time-limited health and social care settings.