Therapy and Beyond

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Counselling Psychology Contributions to Therapeutic and Social Issues

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Therapy and Beyond: Counselling Psychology Contributions to Therapeutic and Social Issues explores the origins, practices, and future directions of counselling psychology. It reviews the knowledge base underpinning the discipline, challenges traditional ideas of psychopathology, and emphasises the notion of human wellbeing. The book assesses counselling psychology's role in understanding individuals in work and social contexts, and highlights its applications beyond therapy rooms, including spirituality, the arts, and environmental activism. It also critiques contemporary research challenges and the role of research methods in addressing human experience.
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This book is suited for students and professionals in counselling psychology, mental health practitioners, and those interested in the intersection of therapy, social issues, and human wellbeing.

Therapy and Beyond: Counselling Psychology Contributions toTherapeutic and Social Issues presents an overview of theorigins, current practices, and potential future of the disciplineof counselling psychology.

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Therapy and Beyond: Counselling Psychology Contributions to Therapeutic and Social Issues presents an overview of the origins, current practices, and potential future of the discipline of counselling psychology.

Presents an up-to-date review of the knowledge base behind the discipline of counselling psychology that addresses the notion of human wellbeing and critiques the concept of ‘psychopathology’.

Includes an assessment of the contributions that counselling psychology makes to understanding people as individuals, in their working lives, and in wider social domains.

Offers an overview of counselling psychology's contributions beyond the consulting room, including practices in the domain of spirituality, the arts and creative media, and the environmental movement.

Critiques contemporary challenges facing research as well as the role that research methods have in responding to questions about humanity and individual experience.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780470715482

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 July 2010

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Contributors:

Edited by Martin Milton

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 510g

Pages: 352

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Education & Reference Health & Wellness Non-Fiction

About the Author

MARTIN MILTON is based in the Department of Psychology at the University of Surrey. He is a chartered psychologist, a British Psychological Society (BPS) psychologist specializing in psychotherapy, and a UKCP registered psychotherapist Martin worked in the British National Health Service and currently runs his own independent practice He has also been active in the BPS Division of Counseling Psychology.