What's the Good of Counselling and Psychotherapy? : The Benefits Explained

by Colin Feltham

• ISBN13: 9780761969556
• ISBN10: 0761969551
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-26
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

'What this brilliant book does so well is to produce not just the evidence for the research effectiveness of therapies but makes the moral case for bringing together human psychological welfare needs and the expanding number of skilled, ethically sensitive people ready to listen to and respond in the most deeply human and needed way - the counsellors and all who work as psychological therapists. I strongly recommend this book' - Graham Curtis Jenkins, Counselling in Practice

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors
The Benefits of Counselling and Psychotherapy: an Introduction
Colin Feltham
Part One: Addressing Human Suffering
The Epidemiology of Mental Distress	8	(15)
Janis Abernathy
Mick Power
Proven Benefits of Psychotherapeutic Interventions with Children and Adolescents	23	(11)
Helen Cowie
Judith Dawkins
Benefits of Therapy with Adults Who Were Abused as Children: Some Issues from Evaluation of Counselling Services	34	(14)
Peter Dale
Suicide Reduction and Prevention	48	(33)
Robert W. Firestone
Lisa Firestone
Relationship Difficulties: Causes and Cures	81	(16)
Douglas Hooper
Therapeutic Benefits for People with Borderline Personality Disorder	97	(17)
Eva Burns-Lundgren
Part Two: Enhancing Personal Effectiveness and Social Cohesion
Consumers' Views of the Benefits of Counselling and Psychotherapy	114	(17)
Colin Feltham
Visionary Deep Personal Growth	131	(12)
Juliana Brown
Richard Mowbray
The Benefits of Psychotherapy to Spirituality	143	(13)
Shahid Najeeb
The Couch and the Ballot Box: The Contribution and Potential of Psychotherapy in Enhancing Citizenship	156	(23)
Keith Tudor
Helena Hargaden
Fostering Emotional Intelligence	179	(17)
Hilde Rapp
Part Three: Therapeutic Settings and Arguments for Effectiveness
Good Money after Bad? The Justification for the Expansion of Counselling Services in Primary Health Care	196	(15)
Graham Curtis Jenkins
The Benefits of Counselling and Employee Assistance Programmes to British Industry	211	(14)
Carolyn Marchington-Yeoman
Cary L. Cooper
Psychotherapy, the Psychology of Trauma and Army Psychiatry since 1904	225	(15)
Ian Palmer
The Clinical Effectiveness of Psychotherapy	240	(16)
Stephen M. Saunders
The Philosophical and Ethical Basis of Benefit	256	(23)
Digby Tantam
Index	279