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Making Sense Of Science: Understanding The Social Study Of Science (PDF)
by Steven YearleyFluid, readable and accessible.. I found the overall quality of the book to be excellent. It provides an overview of major (and preceding) developments in the field of science studies. It examines landmark works, authors, concepts and approaches.. I will certainly use this book as one of the course texts'. Eileen Crist, Associate Professor, Science amp; Technology in Society, Virginia Tech.
Making the Most of Counselling and Psychotherapy Placements (PDF)
by Michelle Oldale Michelle CookeStruggling to secure the right counselling or psychotherapy placement for you? Unsure of how to deal with complex challenges or how to make sure you get the most out of your placement? Then you have come to the right place! Packed full of hints and tips, advice, checklists and points for reflection, this practical guide will provide you with those all important answers, and more.nbsp;
Psychology AS for AQA A (PDF)
by Cardwell Mike Clarke Liz Meldrum ClaireThis new edition, edited by the best-selling team of Cardwell, Clark and Meldrum, has been fully revised and updated to match the new AQA A specification containing new features to ensure your students are completely up-to-date!
Psychology for A2 Level for AQA (A) (PDF)
by Alison Wadeley Lance Workman Sandie Taylor Mark Griffiths Chris French Jane Ogden Mike Cardwell Claire Meldrum Guy Cumberbatch Jane WilsonThis best-selling textbook has been fully revised in line with the new AQA (A) specification for A2 Level, which will be taught for the first time from September 2009. This brand new edition of Psychology for A2 Level has been completely revised in line with the 2009 A2 Level specification.
Helping the Client: a Creative Practical Guide (PDF)
by John HeronThose who claim to have counselling among their skills should read this book and reflect on their own practice. This would in itself be a growth experience for many' - British Journal of Psychiatry.
Integrative Counselling Skills in Action (PDF)
by Culley Sue Bond Dr Tim'As a counsellor, supervisor and trainer I find this book such an excellent resource. It is invaluable in my teaching as well as supporting learning in supervision. Culley and Bond use their extensive experience as practitioners to demystify potentially complex ideas, instead presenting them in an accessible and engaging way. Counselling skills are described clearly and case study material is relevant to practice. The third edition brings new and contemporary content that further enhances the value of the book. Buy it now!' - Dr Andrew Reeves, Counsellor, Supervisor, Trainer and Editor of Counselling and Psychotherapy Research journal.
Integration in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Developing a Personal Approach (Second Edition) (PDF)
by Charlotte Sills Phil LapworthNow in its second edition, this book is established reading for any practitioner or trainee wishing to develop their own personal style of working. 9781446203712
Introducing Psychological Research: Seventy Studies That Shape Psychology (PDF)
by Philip Banyard Andrew GraysonThis text provides full summaries of over 70 research studies in psychology. The summaries illustrate the major themes and the methodologies that psychologists use, and contain details of the major findings. The studies have been chosen to illustrate the major areas of psychology: social psychology, developmental psychology, biological psychology, cognitive psychology and the psychology of human diversity. It also contains a number of studies that illustrate the application of psychology in the areas of health and education.
Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy: The Essential Guide (PDF)
by Stephen PalmerAn introductory text that applies a down-to-earth approach to a diversity of 23 therapeutic approaches within counselling and psychotherapy, it was actually a pleasure conducting the review and having to read over the outlined models.... It is a definite entry for counselling training courses and will offer plenty of ideas for those teaching as well as training. It is fun to read and offers numerous ideas of how to put into place counselling techniques' - Counselling Psychology Review This essential guide to the range of approaches used in current practice covers all of the major schools of counselling and psychotherapy, as well as many that are less well known. Ideal as a first textbook for student counsellors or psychotherapists, Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy will help them locate their initial training within the broad context of different therapeutic approaches and help them to discover the specific areas to which they feel the greatest leaning.
Introduction to Counselling Skills: Text and Activities (PDF)
by Richard Nelson-JonesFrom leading skills expert Richard Nelson-Jones, this bestselling book is the ideal companion for any trainer or trainee wanting to acquire and develop the counselling skills key to effective therapeutic relationships. Using an easy to follow, three-stage model, this fourth edition provides the answers to those all important questions: - what are counselling skills and why are they important? - how can I become more skilled and put the skills I have learnt into practice? - what skills will help me manage crises and work effectively with diversity, ethical issues and dilemmas? - how can I help my client to develop their own self-helping skills and maintain change after the counselling relationship has terminated? Accessible, practical and concise, this new edition is packed full of up-to-date case examples, more material on self-care and diversity, as well as a brand new chapter on Using Technology in Counselling.
Introducing Psychopathology (PDF)
by Betty RuddIntroducing Psychpathology is an essential course companion for counselling, psychotherapy and counselling psychology trainees. It explains how to describe and diagnose client problems in clear, accessible language, demystifying the concept of psychopathology and revealing it as an integral aspect of training and practice.
Blank Minds and Sticky Moments in Counselling (2nd edition) (PDF)
by Russell Janice Dexter GrahamBlank Minds and Sticky Moments in Counselling, Second Edition is a popular and down-to-earth guide to the common challenges which arise in everyday counselling practice. Drawing on humour and over 30 years experience, the authors describe a range of strategies to help practitioners and trainees through the 'sticky' moments and offer reassurance that 'you are not alone' in facing these dilemmas. The authors also tackle broader issues concerning what it means to be professional, tensions between theory and practice and offer a four-stage model of counselling as a framework for practice. The underlying goal of the book is to help readers see difficult moments as learning experiences and to feel empowered to be imaginative, creative and flexible practitioners. Blank Minds and Sticky Moments in Counselling, Second Edition is a rich source of practical advice for trainees and practitioners. Graham Dexter and Janice Russell are freelance trainers and consultants in counselling.
John Bowlby and Attachment Theory (PDF)
by Jeremy HolmesSecond edition, completely revised and updated John Bowlby is one of the outstanding psychological theorists of the twentieth century. This new edition of John Bowlby and Attachment Theory is both a biographical account of Bowlby and his ideas and an up-to-date introduction to contemporary attachment theory and research, now a dominant force in psychology, counselling, psychotherapy and child development.
Journeys Through Mental Illness: Client Experiences and Understandings of Mental Distress (PDF)
by Foster Juliet L. H.With service users' perspectives being increasingly recognized in healthcare, this title highlights the importance of clients' perceptions of all aspects of mental illness, examining the implications of these understandings, especially in relation to clients' relationships with services.
Key Concepts in Health Psychology (PDF)
by Marcus Munafo Ian AlberyWhile current textbooks in health psychology offer the reader some conceptual reasoning about different aspects of the discipline, there is no one source which provides an accessible, navigable and cross-referenced analysis of the major models and ideas in health psychology. 9781849204965
An Introduction to Critical Management Research (PDF)
by Mihaela Kelemen Rumens NickWhy have certain theories shaped management research? Where do research theory and practice meet, if at all? To ask these questions is to think critically about management research. Mihaela L Kelemen and Nick Rumens explore the fundamentals of critical management theory and their influences on management research, and in doing so offer the student an illuminating introduction to what is often a disparate and complex array of issues. 10 expressive chapters examine theoretical foundations, including those most often sidelined in mainstream management theory; from postmodernism and deconstruction to American pragmatism, along with methodological choices and the intellectual issues each of these presents.
Sage Foundations of Psychology series: An Introduction to Child Development (2nd edition) (PDF)
by Thomas Keenan Subhadra EvansThe Second Edition of An Introduction to Child Development has been fully updated to provide a comprehensive survey of the main areas of child development, from infancy through to adolescence. Equipping students with an appreciation of critical issues in the field and an understanding of empirical research that bears on the study of children, the text provides balanced coverage of topics and theoretical perspectives that represent both classic and cutting edge work in child development. In terms of new content, it now covers more on the biological foundations of development, plus new chapters on moral development and applied developmental psychology.
Key Research and Study Skills in Psychology (PDF)
by Sieglinde Mcgee'I am happy to recommend this to my students as it covers jargon without using jargon and explains all those simple things that many academics take for granted. It also gives good examples of how to get the best from your time studying psychology from how to write good essays to the rules of writing lab reports' - Dr Jay Coogan University of East London.
An Introduction to Coaching (PDF)
by Janice DexterThis is an excellent, no-nonsense introduction to the field of coaching for developing practitioners. Using a rich array of examples from both life and business coaching, the book covers: foundations coaching process, the range of coaching models, skills, attitudes and methods o the psychological underpinnings to the main theoretical approaches to coaching, e.g. cognitive. Different applications of coaching e.g in life, executive or career-coaching, key professional issues such as ethics, evidence-based practice and contracts. Blending theory and practice, with examples and exercises, the book is aimed at professionals from a range of backgrounds, whether therapeutic, educational or business in orientation, who want to expand and transfer their skills to the coaching profession.
Legal Issues in Counselling and Psychotherapy (PDF)
by Peter Jenkins`This is an excellent book. It builds well on Peter Jenkins' admirable earlier contribution to our knowledge of the many legal matters that are of vital concern to counsellors ( Counselling, Psychotherapy and the Law, SAGE 1997).
Medical and Psychiatric Issues for Counsellors (PDF)
by Brian Daines Linda Gask Amanda HowePraise for the First Edition: `An interesting overview of medical and psychiatric issues that may arise for counsellors.. readable, lucid and free of jargon. The issues addressed include referral and assessment, ongoing counselling and supervision, medical conditions and their treatment, psychiatric conditions and their treatment, and ethical and legal issues.. it raises awareness of some important issues to consider when working with clients with medical and psychiatric conditions' - British Journal of Guidance and Counselling.
Mental Health Still Matters (PDF)
by Jill ReynoldsIn a collection of more than 50 readings, Mental Health Still Matters reflects the wide diversity of views about how best to understand and explain mental health and distress. Drawing on writings from a range of academic sources, as well as the rich and compelling stories of mental health service users themselves, it provides a sharp challenge to traditional understandings of mental illness and aims to illuminate future thinking, policy and practice.</p
Melanie Klein (PDF)
by Julia Segal`The book is very intimate; the first chapter on Klein's personal and professional life is extremely candid and enlightening. Will be enjoyed by pre-professional students and psychoanalytically oriented theoreticians and practitioners' - Choice.
An Introduction to Transactional Analysis (Revised edition) (PDF)
by Charlotte Sills Phil LapworthThis thoroughly revised edition of Transactional Analysis Counselling introduces the theory and practice of TA - which integrates cognitive behavioural and psychodynamic theories within a humanistic philosophy - from a unique relational perspective. While most TA books focus on one field, this approach demonstrates the benefits of TA across a wide variety of helping settings, business and management, education and coaching as well as counselling. Case studies from a variety of contexts bring TA to life for trainees in any of these disciplines, and the accessible, engaging writing style makes difficult concepts understandable for undergraduates and postgraduates alike. Bringing their book into the twenty-first century, expert authors Phil Lapworth and Charlotte Sills provide a brief history of TA followed by individual chapters on the concepts and techniques used. Each chapter is devoted to one concept and includes a detailed definition and description, and suggestions for application in practice. Exercises for student, practitioner and client, boxed summaries, diagrams, checklists and sources of further reading make this the ideal text for use in training. This book is an essential companion for those embarking on specialist TA courses or studying TA as part of wider training, while those who want simply to integrate TA into their work with people can dip into it as suits their needs.
Mental Health in Counselling and Psychotherapy (PDF)
by Norman ClaringbullThis book examines how counsellors and psychotherapists interact with those clients who may suffer from mental health issues.