The Pocket Guide to Therapy
A 'How to'of the Core Models
Trainees in all mental health professions need basic knowledge of the key therapeutic approaches in counseling & psychotherapy. This is the essential companion, placing specific emphasis on practical application to guide the reader in the 'how to' of conducting each therapeutic model.
Approaches covered include established models such as CBT, psychodynamic psychotherapy, systemic therapy and solution-focused brief therapy, and more recent additions to mainstream therapy like mindfulness and narrative therapy. Each chapter is written by an up-and-coming name in the field, offering a unique insight into the challenges and possibilities of training in each model. The book:
- Includes case examples from a wide range of mental health care settings
- Embedded with worksheets, sample questions and diagrams
- Highlights challenges, strengths and weaknesses of each approach
- Details the background and practical application of therapeutic models
- Discusses evidence-based practice and outcomes
Written in language familiar to first-year trainees and using a range of features to enhance learning, this pocket guide is ideal for those embarking on training across counseling, psychotherapy, psychology, health, nursing, and social work.
'A brave, well wrought and extremely valuable précis of 10 of the major talking therapies, this book promises to be the trainee's key how-to text in a field that can often be bewildering. The authors are to be congratulated!' -
Colin Feltham, Emeritus Professor of Critical Counselling Studies, Sheffield Hallam University
'A little gem of a book, that somehow seems to be bigger on the inside than the outside by doing what it says on the tin...Without question I recommend this book for trainee and experienced therapists' -
Michael Townend PhD, University of Derby
This is an excellent book for any student or trainee embarking on counselling studies and practice. It is also a great refresher text for those who might need to re-visit the mainstream theoretical approaches.
I have recommended this as a supplemental reading book for the current NCHP students on stage 2 of the diploma course. It covers some of the course material very well, but other sections are not directly relevant, or outside of the course altogether. The writing style was really nice and clear and it is good at maintaining focus on the practical aspect of doing therapy.
A very concise and easy to use book that can be taken as a reference guide as well as a how to do book
an excellent guide book of practical application of various therapeutic approaches offering challenging opportunities for training
Too brief to cover much detail, of course, this book is helpful partly in that it puts different modalities alongside one another. Given the divisions between therapists of one flavour or another, this is a useful step, although one is always left wishing a greater range of modalities could have been covered (inevitably).
A student who reviewed this for us was impressed by the accessibility and ease of use of htis text.
This book is essential reading for established practitioners who are looking at introducing new ways of working with their clientelle or for new practitioners as a guide to established therapeutic approaches
essential read for pre registration nurses on the mental health programme requiring basic knowledge of the key therapeutic approaches
A solid readable text breaking down key features of some key approaches to therapy. Chapter activities and worksheets are engaging and provide useful pedagogical tools for lecturers as well as being accessible to learners studying at level 3 and Foundation Degree levels.
