Therapy and Beyond: Counselling Psychology Contributions to Therapeutic and Social Issues (Google eBook)

Martin Milton

John Wiley & Sons, Oct 26, 2010 - Psychology - 346 pages

Therapy and Beyond: Counselling Psychology Contributions to Therapeutic and Social Issues presents an overview of the origins, current practices, and potential future of the discipline of counselling psychology. 

• Presents an up-to-date review of the knowledge base behind the discipline of counselling psychology that addresses the notion of human wellbeing and critiques the concept of ‘psychopathology’
• Includes an assessment of the contributions that counselling psychology makes to understanding people as individuals, in their working lives, and in wider social domains
• Offers an overview of counselling psychology's contributions beyond the consulting room, including practices in the domain of spirituality, the arts and creative media, and the environmental movement
• Critiques contemporary challenges facing research as well as the role that research methods have in responding to questions about humanity and individual experience

Contents

• Existentialphenomenological Contributions to Counselling: 21
• Revisiting: 41
• Moving beyond: 57
• An Evolutionary Framework for: 73
• Different Theoretical Differences and Contextual Influences: 105
• Humanistic Contributions to Pluralistic Practice: 123
• Psychodynamic Contributions to Pluralistic Practice: 139
• Cognitivebehavioural Contributions to Pluralistic: 155
• Existential Contributions to Pluralistic Practice: 171
• Counselling Psychology and the Wider World: 189
• The Counselling Psychologist Working in a Pain Context: 195
• The R Word: 229
• Counselling Psychology Contributions to Understanding: 243
• Counselling Psychology Contributions to Religion: 259
• The Highs and Lows: 277
• Counselling Psychology: 293
• And Finally: 311

About the author

MARTIN MILTON is based in the Department of Psychology at the University of Surrey. He is a chartered psychologist, a British Psychological Society (BPS) psychologist specializing in psychotherapy, and a UKCP registered psychotherapist Martin worked in the British National Health Service and currently runs his own independent practice He has also been active in the BPS Division of Counseling Psychology.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Therapy and Beyond: Counselling Psychology Contributions to Therapeutic and Social Issues
• Editor: Martin Milton
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2010
• ISBN: 0470797584, 9780470797587
• Length: 346 pages
• Subjects: Psychology / Psychotherapy / General