Understanding Counselling and Psychotherapy

includes index and biblioraphy

Part I. Counselling, psychotherapy and Mental Health...........19 The diagnosis of mental health problems........21 Understanding drug treatments: A biopsychosocial Approach ............45 Psychoanalysis: The talking cure.........77 Part 2. Individual Therapeutic approaches ............101 Humanistic Approaches .....103 Existential Psychotherapy.....125 Cognitive-behavioural therapy........145 Mindfulness approaches.....167 Part III. Beyond the individual .....189 Systemic Approaches......191 Sociocultural Issues .........211 Part IV. Practising and evaluating counselling and Psychotherapy ............235 Context and setting .........237 The therapeutic Relationship.......259 Outcome research ..........281 Process research .........307 Conclusions......327