Short-term Counselling in Higher Education

This book explores the implications of working in Higher Education counselling services in a very short-term way.

Dr David Mair is Head of Counselling and Wellbeing at the University of Birmingham, and a BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist. He has worked in higher education for over 20 years and has a particular interest in encouraging and supporting diversity and equality as well as exploring how counselling can help to meet the needs of the current generation of emerging adults.

Context. Mair, The Rise and Rise of Higher Education and Therapeutic Culture. Theory. Coren, Short-Term Therapy: Therapy lite? Jenkins, Counselling in Higher Education Settings: Working with Risk, Confidentiality and 'Duty of Care' Issues. Practice. Dufour, Assessment: Laying the Foundation for Brief Therapeutic Work in HE. McCrea, Measuring Effectiveness in Student Counselling . Cowley, Groves, The Cardiff Model Of Short Term Engagement. Hunt, Lost in Translation? Working Therapeutically with International Students. Meyer, Working With Depression and Anxiety in a Short Term Setting. Anderson, Louden, Mind, Body and Brain: Working with Somatised Distress in University Students. Ames, Counselling Online in HE: Opportunities and Challenges. Tarren, Managing Demand and Surviving the Work.