Description
Book SynopsisUnderstanding Mental Health and Counselling provides a critical introduction to key debates about how problems of mental health are understood, and to the core approaches taken to working with counselling and psychotherapy clients. In drawing out the differences and intersections between professional and social understandings of mental health and counselling theory and practice, the book fosters critical thinking about effective and ethical work with mental health service users and therapy clients.
With chapters by noted academic writers and service-user researchers, and content enlivened by activities, first-person accounts and case material, the book provides a key resource for both counselling and psychotherapy trainees and those interested in the broader field of mental health.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 Understanding mental health: the emergence of the talking cure Chapter 1 The birth of psychiatry: questions of power, control and care - David W. Jones Chapter 2 The service-user movement - Jo Lomani Chapter 3 The history of the talking cure - Sarah Marks Chapter 4 Diagnosis, classification and the expansion of the therapeutic realm - David Harper Part 2 Presenting problems Chapter 5 Understanding sadness and worry - Naomi Moller and Gina Di Malta Chapter 6 Trauma and crisis - Andrew Reeves and Christina Buxton Chapter 7 Relationships and intimacy - Naomi Moller Chapter 8 Understanding psychological formulation - Lucy Johnstone Part 3 Models of working Chapter 9 The psychodynamic approach - David Kaposi Chapter 10 Cognitive behavioural therapy - Simon P. Clarke Chapter 11 The humanistic approach - Michael Sims and Gina Di Malta Chapter 12 The pluralistic approach - Julia McLeod and John McLeod Part 4 Counselling in practice Chapter 13 The therapeutic relationship - Daragh Keogh and Ladislav Timulak Chapter 14 Beyond the individual - Andreas Vossler Chapter 15 Beyond face to face: technology-based counselling - Andreas Vossler Chapter 16 Context of practice: boundaries and ethics - Clare Symons Part 5 Contemporary issues: mental health and society Chapter 17 The politics of research and evidence - Rebecca Hutten Chapter 18 Mental health, criminal justice and the law - David W. Jones Chapter 19 Individual or social problems? - David Kaposi Chapter 20 Living in a therapeutic culture - Joanne Brown and Barry Richards Conclusion
