Books in the Therapy in Practice series

New approaches from cognitive therapy have made significant advances towards helping clients with psychosomatic problems. This practical and comprehensive guide describes a cognitive way of working with clients who present for counselling with physical symptoms, but where psychological issues or problems are causing or maintaining those symptoms.

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.

Provides a practical and accessible step-by-step guide for those working with people who experience disorders of speech, language, voice and fluency. The author emphasizes how counselling plays an increasing part in practitioners' approaches to communication problems.

A practical guide to working with people suffering from depression. It outlines how to work with general negativity, sense of failure and abandonment, and feelings of powerlessness, anger, shame and guilt. It examines the essential stages of the therapeutic process from conceptualization and formulation through to a wide variety of interventions.

Maps out how to therapeutically treat sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using a cognitive behavioural approach to treatment. Covering the spectrum of post-traumatic states, this book outlines a range of techniques for counselling clients who have suffered major trauma.

Describing the uses and limitations of psychotropic drugs, their effectiveness and impact on the counselling process, this book lays down guidelines for assessment, drug withdrawal and counselling approaches to consider while clients are still taking drugs or are withdrawing from drug use.

This book presents accessible and up-to-date guidelines on the most effective ways of helping clients with anxiety problems. It outlines general methods of working with anxiety sufferers and highlights the issues specific client group.

Includes guidelines that show practitioners how they can give their clients the most effective help for their stress problems using a technically eclectic and systematic approach. This book discusses the symptoms and causes of stress and outlines a framework in which stress problems can be understood.

This text focuses on normative family problems, such as birth or leaving home; problems which distort normative expectations, such as divorce and step-parenting; and those that are produced by the unexpected, such as accidents or chronic illnesses.

Focuses on the methods and techniques used by counsellors to reassert balance in a relationship. It examines the nature of couple relationships and emphasizes that counselling entails motivating couples, helping them to understand their problems and increasing their behavioural management skills.