Counselling and Counselling Psychology: A Critical Examination
Counselling and Counselling Psychology: A Critical Examination
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Summary
Critique is the crux of good academic work, and functions as the hinge-point between scholarship, professional activity and practice. Each theory is only as strong as its capacity to withstand critical examination of its assumptions. Colin Feltham tests the theories, practice and research methods of counselling and counselling psychology.
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Counselling and Counselling Psychology: A Critical Examination by Colin Feltham
This book examines fairly but radically the claims and practices of counsellors and counselling psychologists using both macro-critical and micro-critical lenses. Beginning with the deep context of human distress, it sets the scene for key areas for critique, including a focus on the most significant originators of the talking therapy models. The central theoretical concepts of the major approaches are examined afresh in some depth. Components of everyday counselling practice are placed under a critical microscope. Research-based claims are exposed to renewed scrutiny and the professional aspirations of counselling and counselling psychology are not spared a similar critical treatment. A review of relevant socio-economic and philosophical critiques with possible responses rounds off this important appraisal of a psychological practice that has become, for good and/or otherwise, an unavoidable feature of our lives.
"Feltham provides the reader with a highly informed view from within about the counselling tradeThe honest exploration expected in counselling is turned on its own organisations, theories and practices. Candid and clearly written throughout, this is a very useful bean-spilling book." David Pilgrim, Professor of Health and Social Policy, University of Liverpool In Colin Feltham's latest book, you won't find banal self-satisfaction about therapy's beneficence, or yet another yawn-generating formulaic textbook. Rather, Feltham's discursive panoramic perspective takes therapy writing to new, urgently needed levels of critical engagement. Of all the writers I know in our field, Colin Feltham is perhaps the best placed to provide critical friendship. For therapy trainings that seek to produce critically minded practitioners who are sensitive to both therapy's strengths and its many lacunae, this book is seminal reading - and for all therapists, not only counselling psychologists. Dr Richard House, University of Winchester; author of In, Against and Beyond Therapy, and co-editor of Against and For CBT (both PCCS Books)
Colin Feltham is Emeritus Professor of Critical Counselling Studies, Sheffield Hallam University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781906254582 |
| ISBN 10 | 1906254583 |
| Title | Counselling and Counselling Psychology: A Critical Examination |
| Author | Colin Feltham |
| Series | Critical Examination |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | PCCS Books |
| Year published | 2013-04-13 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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