Counselling in Australia: A Special Issue of the International Journal of Psychology

by Pelling,Nadine; Pelling,Nadine

• ISBN13: 9781841698014
• ISBN10: 1841698016
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-05-30
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

Counselling in Australia is a relatively new and developing profession. As such, counselling and counsellor representation, education, and credentialing are all in flux. This special issue is the first of its kind to examine counselling in Australia. It provides a venue though which the current status of Australian counselling can be outlined and the main stakeholders in Australian counselling can present their efforts at promoting and developing Australian counselling. This special issue will be required reading for Australians interested in counselling. Current Australian counsellors and counselling educators will also use this special issue as a resource to the complex nature of Australian counselling, as it is a comprehensive overview of Australian counselling in a non-political manner. Readers interested in international counselling and counselling as a developing profession will be interested in this special issue as it illustrates efforts at developing the profession of counselling in aspecific cultural context.

Table of Contents

Voices in the Brain

Choices for Voices: A Voice Hearer's Perspective on Hearing Voices

Psychological Treatment for Voices in Psychosis

Compelling Imagery, Unanticipated Speech and Deceptive Memory: Neurocognitive Models of Auditory verbal Hallucinations in Schizophrenia

Auditory Hallucinations: Insights and Questions from Neuroimagining

Locating Voices in Space: A Perceptual Model for Auditory Hallucinations

The Cognitive Neuropsychiatry of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: An Overview

Auditory Hallucinations as Primary Disorders of Syntax: An Evolutionary Theory of the Origins of Language

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