Therapy and Beyond: Counselling Psychology Contributions to Therapeutic and Social IssuesISBN: 978-0-470-71547-5
Hardcover
352 pages
August 2010
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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