Medicalizing Counselling
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Medicalizing Counselling

Issues and Tensions

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eBook - PDF

Medicalizing Counselling

Issues and Tensions

About this book

This book discusses how counselling, a profession known for diverse and innovative practices, has recently been influenced by scientific, marketplace, and administrative developments corresponding with a medicalized focus on psychiatric diagnoses and related evidence-based treatments. Tensions associated with this medicalized focus refer to competing logics and accountabilities regarding how to understand and address concerns brought to counselling. Tom Strong reviews such tensions as they relate to counsellors' approaches to practice experienced as incompatible with a medicalized approach. The role of media and technology, therapy culture, and counsellor education, are examined with respect to medicalizing tensions that professionals and clients of counselling increasingly face. The book will interest readers who share concerns regarding the potential for a mental health monoculture grounded in the diagnose and treatment logic of medicalized counselling.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9783319566986
eBook ISBN
9783319566993
Topic
Psychologie
Subtopic
Mouvements en psychologie

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Contents
  4. List of Figures
  5. 1 Tensions in Medicalizing the Talking “Cure”
  6. 2 Discourses of Counselling and Human Concern
  7. 3 Human Concerns as Diagnosable Mental Health Disorders
  8. 4 Legitimizing an Emergent Mental Health “Monoculture”?
  9. 5 Individualizing and Socializing the Mental Health Monoculture
  10. 6 Medicating and Technologizing Our Diagnosable Lives
  11. 7 Medicalizing Tensions Associated with Administering and Regulating Counselling
  12. 8 Tensions for Front-Line Counsellors?
  13. 9 Tensions in Training Counsellors?
  14. 10 Living with Tensions Associated with Medicalizing Counselling
  15. Further Reading
  16. Index