The Counsellor's Handbook: A Practical A-Z Guide to Professional and Clinical Practice

by Bayne, Rowan; Horton, Ian; Merry, Tony; Noyes, Elizabeth; McMahon, Gladeana

• ISBN13: 9780748733095
• ISBN10: 0748733094
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Intl Specialized Book Service Inc

Summary

Easy-to-use alphabetical format. Offers clear foundations for day-to-day practice. Objective approach to alternative arguments. References and bibliography can be used as alternative resources. New entries address cultural and legislative changes to keep students and professionals up-to-date with current practice.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xii
Introduction	xiii
Abuse	1	(1)
Accenting	2	(1)
Acceptance	2	(1)
Accreditation, By BAC, of counsellor education/training courses	3	(1)
Accreditation of individual counsellors by BAC	4	(1)
Active listening	5	(1)
Administration	6	(1)
Advertising	7	(1)
Advice, giving	8	(1)
Aggressive and violent clients	8	(1)
Anger, coping with	8	(1)
Anger, expression of	9	(1)
Anger, in counsellors	10	(1)
Answerphone	10	(1)
Anxiety	10	(1)
Appropriateness of counselling	11	(1)
Assertiveness	11	(1)
Assessment	12	(1)
Assessment formulation	13	(1)
Avoidance, by clients	14	(1)
Avoidance, by counsellors	15	(1)
Beginnings	15	(1)
Behaviour	16	(1)
Beliefs, irrational	17	(1)
Bereavement	17	(1)
`Blocked' clients	17	(1)
Books, self-help	17	(1)
Boredom	18	(1)
Boundaries	18	(1)
Brainstorming	19	(1)
Brief counselling	19	(1)
British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)	20	(1)
British Association for Counselling (BAC)	21	(1)
British Association of Psychotherapy (BAP)	22	(1)
British Psychological Society (BPS)	23	(1)
Burnout	23	(1)
Business	24	(1)
`Case' study	24	(1)
Catharsis	24	(1)
Challenge	24	(2)
Challenging, some guidelines for	26	(1)
Change	26	(2)
Classification systems	28	(1)
Clients who don't come back	29	(1)
Codes of ethics	29	(1)
Cognitions	30	(1)
Collusion	30	(1)
Common factors	30	(1)
Complaints, about counsellors to BAC	31	(1)
Concreteness	32	(1)
Confidentiality	32	(1)
Confrontation	33	(1)
Congruence	34	(1)
Contract, negotiating a	35	(1)
Contraindications for brief counselling	36	(3)
Core conditions	39	(1)
Core model	39	(1)
Cost-effectiveness, of counselling	40	(1)
Counselling	40	(3)
Counselling, BAC basic principles of	43	(1)
Counter-transference	43	(1)
Cross-cultural	44	(1)
Crisis, for the counsellor	44	(1)
Crisis couselling	45	(4)
Crying	49	(1)
Defining counselling to clients	50	(1)
Denial	50	(1)
Depression	50	(2)
Diagnosis	52	(1)
Differences between clients and cousellors	52	(1)
Difficult clients	52	(1)
Difficulties in being a client	53	(1)
Distress at the end of a couselling session (clients)	53	(2)
Distress at the end of a counselling session (counsellors)	55	(1)
DNA (Did not attend)	56	(1)
Drama triangle	56	(1)
Drawings	56	(1)
Drinks/refreshments	56	(1)
Dropout	57	(1)
Drunk and/or drugged clients	57	(1)
Duration	58	(1)
Eclecticism	58	(1)
Effectiveness of counselling	58	(2)
E-mail counselling	60	(2)
Emergency	62	(1)
Emotions	62	(2)
Emotions, naming	64	(1)
Emotions, talking about versus experiencing	65	(1)
Empathy	66	(3)
Endings	69	(2)
Ethical dilemmas	71	(1)
Ethnic origin	72	(1)
European Association for Counselling (EAC)	72	(1)
Evaluation	72	(2)
Exercise	74	(1)
Exercises/activities	74	(1)
Expectations, clients'	74	(1)
Experiments, by clients	75	(1)
Feedback from clients to counsellor	76	(1)
Feelings	77	(1)
Fees	77	(1)
Finding clients	78	(1)
First impressions	78	(1)
First session	79	(1)
Focus	79	(1)
Force-field analysis	79	(1)
Frame of reference	80	(1)
Frameworks	80	(1)
Freewriting	81	(1)
Frequency of sessions	81	(1)
Friendship/making friends with clients	82	(1)
Furniture	82	(1)
Gender issues	83	(1)
Genuineness	83	(1)
Good counsellors	83	(1)
Group counselling	84	(1)
Hidden agendas	84	(1)
History taking	84	(2)
Holidays	86	(1)
Homework	86	(2)
Hooked	88	(1)
Hospitalisation	88	(1)
Humour	88	(1)
Hunches	89	(1)
Illness/disability	89	(1)
Imagery	89	(1)
Immediacy	90	(1)
Information giving	91	(1)
Insurance, indemnity	92	(1)
Integration and eclecticism	93	(1)
Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR)	93	(3)
Interpretation	96	(1)
Intuition	96	(1)
Jargon	97	(1)
Journal, writing a	97	(3)
Journals, academic and applied	100	(1)
Kissing	101	(1)
Letters	101	(1)
Length of sessions	101	(1)
Liability and the law	102	(1)
Life space diagram	102	(1)
Life space exercise, using stones	103	(1)
Limits, setting	104	(1)
Line managers as supervisors	104	(1)
Literal description	104	(1)
Litigation	105	(1)
Loss	105	(1)
Love, adult romantic	106	(1)
Manipulation	107	(1)
Marketing	108	(1)
Mental illness	109	(1)
Metaphors and similes	109	(1)
Missed sessions	110	(1)
Mistakes	111	(1)
Models	111	(1)
Multiculturalism	111	(1)
Multicultural counselling	112	(9)
Musts	121	(1)
Nervous clients	121	(1)
Non-verbal communication	122	(1)
`No show' clients	123	(1)
Note taking	123	(1)
Nuisance telephone calls	123	(1)
Nurturing, the counsellor's need for	124	(1)
NVQs	124	(1)
Openness	125	(1)
Office	125	(1)
Outcome of research (on counselling)	125	(1)
Panic attacks	125	(1)
Parallel process	126	(1)
Paraphrasing	127	(2)
Patterns	129	(1)
Peer supervision	129	(1)
Pencil and paper exercises	130	(1)
Persecutor	130	(1)
Personal counselling for the counsellor	130	(1)
Personal growth for the counsellor	131	(2)
Personality	133	(1)
Physical activity	133	(1)
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)	133	(2)
Power	135	(1)
Preparation for being a client	136	(1)
Presenting clients	136	(1)
Presents from clients	136	(1)
Privacy	137	(1)
Private practice	137	(1)
Process	138	(1)
Professional development	138	(1)
Professionalism, development of	139	(1)
Psychodiagnosis	140	(1)
Psychological type	141	(2)
Questions	143	(1)
Questions (personal) asked by clients	144	(1)
Quiet clients	145	(1)
Rapport	145	(1)
Rapprochement	146	(1)
Readiness to change	146	(1)
Record keeping	147	(1)
Referral	148	(2)
Referral letters	150	(2)
Reflection of feelings	152	(1)
Regularity of sessions	152	(1)
Relationship between counsellor and client	153	(1)
Relaxation, physical	153	(1)
Reluctant clients	153	(1)
Rescuing	154	(1)
Research	154	(1)
Resistance	155	(1)
Respect	155	(1)
Restimulation	156	(1)
Role conflict	156	(1)
Room	157	(1)
Safety	157	(1)
Self-awareness	157	(2)
Self-disclosure, by counsellors	159	(1)
Sexual attraction	159	(1)
Short-term counselling	160	(1)
Shoulds	161	(1)
Silence	161	(1)
Smoking	161	(1)
Statutory registration	162	(1)
Stress	162	(1)
Stress, coping with	163	(1)
Sued, being	164	(1)
Suicide	165	(2)
Suitability of clients for brief counselling	167	(1)
Summaries and `moving interviews forward'	167	(1)
Supervision	168	(1)
Supervision, negotiating a contract for	169	(1)
Supervision, presenting clients for	170	(3)
Supervisors, BAC accredited	173	(1)
Support	174	(1)
Support groups, peer	174	(1)
Tape-recording	175	(1)
Tapes, self-help	176	(1)
Tea and coffee	176	(1)
Teams, multidisciplinary	176	(1)
Telephone counselling	177	(1)
Theoretical schools	178	(1)
Theories	179	(2)
Therapeutic alliance	181	(1)
Thoughts	181	(2)
Time boundaries	183	(1)
Time management	183	(1)
Touch	183	(1)
Transference	184	(1)
Transitions	184	(1)
Trust	184	(1)
Type	185	(1)
United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)	185	(1)
United Kingdom Register of Consellors (UKRC)	186	(1)
Unconditional positive regard	187	(1)
Validation, of counsellor education/training courses in the UK	187	(1)
Values	188	(1)
Victim	188	(1)
Video	188	(1)
Violence and its prevention	189	(1)
Visualisation	189	(1)
Warmth	190	(1)
Working alliance	190	(1)
Writing	190	(1)
Zest, maintaining	191	(2)
References	193