Counselling Psychology

Counselling psychology, a rapidly expanding mental health discipline, is rooted in academic psychology and therefore has unique potential of develop and sustain a powerful model for the integration of research and practice. This is the argument of this pioneering book, which brings together contributions from many leading counselling psychologists to show how practitioners are already working along these lines, and how the model can be developed for the future. The aim of the book is to bridge the divide between academic psychology and counselling practice and to encourage professionals to bring ethically aware and culturally sensitive research into the consulting room. It provides a secure grounding for trainees and an excellent resource for experience practitioners. Counselling Psychology: * defines and contextualizes the discipline * examines its potential for future development * shows how research integrated with supervised practice can be applied in professional settings.

Petruska Clarkson MA, PhD, is a consultant chartered counselling and clinical psychologist with 25 years' successful experience as a psychotherapist, supervisor and organisational consultant. She is an international visiting lecturer/supervisor, the author/editor of 12 books and over 100 professional papers, the principle/co-founder of several major organisations in the field, Fellow of the British Association for Counselling, Chair of the British Psychological Society Psychology Diploma Examinations Board, and Honorary Reader in the psychology of supervision at Surrey University.

1: Counselling psychology; I: Counselling psychology practice as integrating research and theory; 2: Organisational counselling psychology; 3: How counselling psychologists can employ a role enactment methodology to examine possible causal relationships amongst internal events; 4: Qualitative research in counselling psychology; 5: Researching the 'therapeutic relationship' in psychoanalysis, counselling psychology and psychotherapy; 6: Cross-cultural issues in counselling psychology practice; 7: Psychological counselling in primary health care; 8: Therapeutic factors in group psychotherapy; 9: Transformational research; II: Counselling psychology research and practice: some professional dimensions; 10: Investigating the learning experiences of counsellors in training; 11: Chartered counselling psychology qualification by the independent route and the role of the training co-ordinator; 12: Learning through Inquiry (the Dierotao 1 programme at PHYSIS); 13: Phenomenological research on supervision; 14: Writing as research in counselling psychology and related disciplines; 15: The psychology of 'fame'