Developing Counsellor Training (Developing Counselling series) - Softcover

Windy Dryden; Colin Feltham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803989431 ISBN 13: 9780803989436

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

`This clear and systematic book is intended to offer practical guidelines on planning, implementing and evaluating counsellor training programmes... a very focused and unusually practical reflection by two experienced trainers on the general tasks facing those who train counsellors... affords many useful pointers′ - Clinical Psychology Forum

`The authors′ expertise shows... there is much here to stimulate reflection and improve practice′ - International Review of PsychiatryAssessing how counselling training may be analyzed, systematized, reconsidered and improved, this book raises the central issues which face those with an interest in the design or improvement of training courses and puts forward ideas about how such courses can be better organized, how training methods can be made more effective and how counselling skills can be more appropriately taught.

The book also covers areas such as trainers′ self-care, working relationships, interpersonal dynamics and trainees′ supervised work with clients. It does not disguise the problems involved in starting or running a training course, but provides encouraging advice, supported by case studies and examples, to show how these difficulties can be successfully overcome.

About this title

About the Authors

Windy Dryden is one of the leading practitioners and trainers in the UK in the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) tradition of psychotherapy. He is best known for his work in Rational-Emotive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (RECBT), a leading CBT approach.  He has been working in the field of counselling and psychotherapy since 1975 and was one of the first people in Britain to be trained in CBT.

He has published over 200 books and has trained therapists all over the world, in as diverse places as the UK, the USA, South Africa, Turkey and Israel.

He is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Colin Feltham is series editor of Professional Skills for Counsellors and Short Introductions to the Therapy Professions series, co-editor of SAGE Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy and author of several SAGE texts, including What is Counselling?

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803989431
• ISBN 13: 9780803989436
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160