Critical Thinking in Counselling and Psychotherapy

Colin Feltham

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2010
• ISBN:
  9781446242070
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychotherapy Counselling
• Index: Psychology

This innovative new textbook examines the critical debates around key topics in counselling and psychotherapy. In nine sections including Everyday Counselling Practice, Training and Curriculum Issues, and Counselling, Society and Culture, Colin Feltham explores 60 provocative questions central to counselling training and practice.

Ranging from more mainstream subjects like unconditional positive regard, ethics and supervision to broader social or philosophical issues such as employment concerns and the debate on assisted suicide, entries include:

-Why have we focused on core theoretical models?

-What are the pros and cons of short-term, time-limited counselling?

-What?s wrong with CBT?

-Where is research taking us?

-Is statutory regulation a good and inevitable development?

-Are there limits to personal change in counselling?

Each section includes questions for reflection, case studies and student exercises. This comprehensive, student-friendly text is a useful resource for lecturers to stimulate seminar discussion, and for all trainees wishing to write essays or generally develop their critical thinking in counselling and psychotherapy.

Index

abusive therapists, 195

acceptance see unconditional positive regard (UPR)

Adler, A., 3

advice-giving, 151

Alcoholics Anonymous, 146

anarchism, 122

Anderson, H. & Goolishian, H., 157

anthropathology, 169, 175–7

anthropology, 65

Appignanesi, L., 204

assessment, 20–2

areas of, 22

co-assessment, 21

critical thinking about, 212–13

need for, 21

assisted dying, 189

asymmetrical conversation, 198

BACP, 23, 44, 52, 119, 196

Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy, 30

supervision, 96

training, 58

Baker Miller, Jean, 71

Barnett, R., 9

BASIC ID, 24

Bates, Y., 112

Bates, Y. & House, R., 33

Bays, B., 139

‘Beating the Blues’, 125

Beck, Aaron, 4

beliefs of counsellors, 146, 151–3

Bentall, R., 167

bereavement, 21

Berry, M. & Woolfe, R., 60

Blanton, B., 11, 204

Bond, T., 33

boundaries in practice, 18–20

gifts from clients, 19

out-of-office meetings, 18–19

boundaries in practice cont.

physical contact, 18

timekeeping, 19

Bowlby, J., 73

Bozarth, J. & Wilkins, P., 17

Brear, P. et al, 48

British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP), 88

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, 105

British Psychoanalytical Council, 105

British Psychological Society (BPS), 61, 105

Brown, K. & Rutter, L., 9

Buckroyd, J., 22

Buddha, 139–40

Bussolari, C.J. & ...