Developing Your Counselling and Psychotherapy Skills and Practice

This book offers a helping hand to trainees wishing to make the transition to the next level in their counselling and psychotherapy training. With wide-ranging content closely aligned to actual practice, this intermediate level text covers the research-informed skills, interventions, processes and issues that students need to know once they've covered the basics. It includes: - Specific techniques from different therapeutic orientations - How to tailor the skills or approach used to the specific client problem - Case conceptualisation and management - Therapeutic alliance; establishing and exploring the relationship - Ethics - Multidisciplinary working - How to deal with situations such as silence, crying, and aggression. Integrating cognitive, behavioural, person-centred/experiential and psychodynamic approaches, the author provides research-informed practical instructions on how to deliver therapy and includes extracts from counselling sessions to demonstrate the skills in action. This is essential reading for postgraduates on Counselling and Psychotherapy Diplomas and Masters courses, and will also be of benefit to Clinical and Counselling Psychology students.

Table of Contents:
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Current Psychotherapy and Counselling PART TWO: BASIC SKILLS OF CONDUCTING PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING Building the Therapeutic Alliance Case Conceptualization Ethical Aspects of Psychotherapy and Counselling Interventions, Facilitating, Exploration and Understanding Promotion of Change and Its Application outside the Therapy Session Specific Therapeutic Techniques PART THREE: ADJUSTING THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY Specific Situations in the Process of Therapy Specifics of Psychotherapy and Counselling for Some Psychological Disorders and Difficulties Conclusion References

About the Author :
Ladislav Timulak is course director of the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology at Trinity College, Dublin. He previously worked at the University of Trnava, Slovakia, and has extensive research and practical experience in the field of counselling and psychotherapy, as well as experience in conducting psychotherapy and counselling psychology training.

Review :
"Developing Your Counselling and Psychotherapy Skills and Practice fills the void between books that cover basic counseling skills and those that cover specific methods in depth. For the trainee or clinician who asks ′I am sitting in front of my client, now what do I do next?′, Timulak′s book will provide that answer." Paul Jerry, Psychologist & Associate Professor, Athabasca University