The Psychology of Counselling

What is counselling and how can it help? Does counselling work? How is counselling different from talking to my family and friends about my problems?
This text explains the different approaches to therapy and how they are used in practice, giving information on what counselling can help with and what it cannot do.

Marie Percival is an academic, practitioner, and researcher. With over 15 years of experience teaching psychology and psychological therapies to undergraduate and postgraduate students at higher educational institutions and dealing with countless clients during this period, she has acquired extensive knowledge in this field.

1. Counselling - past, present and future 2. Freud psychoanalysis reviewed and reconsidered 3. Humanistic psychology - a person-centred approach to counselling 4. Cognitive behavioural therapy 5. The promise of positive psychology 6. The healing space - a changing landscape 7. Research in counselling and psychotherapy 8. Professional issues in counselling and psychotherapy