Counselling for Depression: A Person-centred and Experiential Approach to Practice - Softcover

Pete Sanders; Andy Hill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1446272095 ISBN 13: 9781446272091

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

This is the first book to take a humanistic - person-centred/experiential - approach to counselling to the most commonly presenting client issue, depression. A landmark text, it establishes humanistic counselling as an evidence-based psychological intervention and is essential reading for trainees wishing to work in public health settings. Chapters cover:

· Evidence-based practice and person-centred and experiential therapies

· Counselling for Depression competence framework

· Working briefly

· the Counselling for Depression therapeutic stance

· In-depth case studies illustrating Counselling for Depression in practice

· Training, Supervision and Research.

The book further includes lists of CfD competences, research data supporting the approach, and sources used in developing the Humanistic Competence Framework

This will be vital reading for those taking CfD training or a humanistic counselling and psychotherapy course, as well as for those already working within the NHS wishing to enhance their practice.

Andy Hill is an accredited counsellor, an experienced trainer and Head of Research at the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Pete Sanders is retired person-centred therapist, who now acts acts as a trainer, with a special interest in Pre Therapy. He founded PCCS training and PCCS books with his wife Maggie.

About this title

Review

This book is both timely and unique: it bridges theory and clinical practice by setting out a clear therapeutic model, detailing the competences that are employed to deliver counselling for depression, and describing how these are applied when working with clients. Specifying what “counselling” means in practice represents an enormous contribution to the field, and one that will be welcomed not only by practitioners and trainers, but also by researchers who wish to explore the effectiveness of this approach.

(Professor Tony Roth)

This book is an essential guide to working with people who are depressed. It illuminates practice within the context of theory, research and NICE guidance. Although written primarily for counsellors and psychotherapists, others will find it invaluable; nurses, psychologists, mental health workers, GPs and more.

If you work with people who are depressed, read this book! It brings together practice, theory and research and links in to current NHS thinking and guidance without compromising the essential nature of therapy.

 

(Janet Tolan)

Pete Sanders and Andy Hill provide an elegant and sensitive drawing together of person-centred and experiential theory and therapy that results in a landmark text for practitioners delivering Counselling for Depression (CfD). Whether new to the field or an experienced practitioner, the book is both essential reading and an invaluable resource.

(Michael Barkham)

...the first book to explain the theory and practice of the person-centred/experiential approach to counselling clients with depression which is offered through the IAPT programme. (HEALTHCARE - Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal)

This book has a valuable role to play in the fight for recognition from the NHS of different modalities in counselling/psychotherapy. It will be particualarly helpful to those working in medical environments, to students and trainers on humanistic courses and to practitioners wanting to know how evidence-based practice can add learning and validity to their work. (Karen Minikin - Counseller and Psychotherapist)

This inspiring and informative book is essential reading for any professionals working with depressed clients. The authors have used their wealth of experience to explain the person centred and experiential theory and practice in a way I haven’t read before. This new integrative counselling offers clients a model of therapy different from that of CBT, it is seen as a highly intense treatment for depression in the IAPT services. The book uses case studies to illustrate CfD in practice; I found this to be very useful and will be adapting it to suit my own client’s needs. Overall, an interesting read, essential for those wanting to improve their own counselling techniques. (Martine Johnson, Child & Adolescent Wellbeing Mentor)

As a textbook, it covers the ground that would be expected: the idea of depression, the PCE therapeutic approach, how this approach conceptualises depression, how it works in practice and ways of learning and being trained. I found the fictionalised vignettes particularly useful in understanding the theory and how it might be applied...I found this an intense but inspiring read, provoking some detailed reflections on my own person-centred practice and promoting a renewed sense of confidence. 
(Andy Wilson, counsellor)

A milestone for person-centred practitioners, it is what we have been waiting for, and will enable us to defend the practice of person-centred counselling in the NHS and elsewhere. Packed full of data from evidence-based research, it more than adequately rivals publications supporting other modalities that already have a strong evidence base to support their work, such as CBT.   (Jayne Hale - person-centred counsellor and supervisor)

[This book is] as an invitation to understand and participate, offering strategies and suggestions which are always rooted in person-centred and emotion-focused therapy theory. Case vignettes are included giving helpful examples of the approach in practice. The research base and methodology is clearly explained, making it a valuable resource for researchers seeking to develop this area. While relevant to practitioners who have some training in the person-centred approach and/or emotion-focused therapy, it may also be helpful for commissioning services in understanding the effectiveness of non-CBT approaches, as well as for GPs where a counselling referral may be appropriate. (Madi Ruby, Glyndwr University, Division of Social Sciences and Education)

A very welcome addition to the field, especially relevant to therapists wanting a realistic alternative therapeutic model to CBT for clients with depression. (Peter Jenkins, University of Manchester)

About the Author

Pete worked as a volunteer counsellor for ‘Off The Record’ in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the early 1970s whilst a psychology undergraduate. This, and a full time Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling at the University of Aston in Birmingham in 1974/5, set him on his subsequent career as a counsellor, trainer, supervisor and author. During this time he was the course leader on three BACP recognised courses, was centrally involved in establishing and running the BACP Trainer Accreditation Scheme, wrote, co-wrote or edited 15 books, and founded PCCS Training and PCCS Books with his wife Maggie.  Apart from his continuing interest in the development of theory and practice in person-centred and experiential therapies, he is dedicated to the demedicalisation of distress. Pete thinks that mental health services are in urgent need of reformation and is more likely to be found at a Hearing Voices Network conference than a BACP event. He is a Trustee of the Soteria Network, UK.

Having trained as a person-centred counsellor in the late 1980s, Andy Hill has worked as a trainer, counsellor and researcher for over 20 years. He worked originally as a further education lecturer at Oldham College, where he established counsellor training courses and a student counselling service, and subsequently as a senior lecturer at Salford University, where he was programme leader for a British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) accredited counsellor training programme.  He has authored systematic reviews in counselling older people (2004) and counselling in primary care (2008) and was lead author for the 2011 evaluation of the Welsh schools counselling strategy. He has played a leading role in the development of competence frameworks in a number of fields: humanistic counselling; counselling for depression; counselling young people; online counselling. He is a BACP accredited counsellor and has practised in student counselling, NHS psychotherapy services, NHS primary care and more recently in an Improving Access to Psychological Therapies service. His main area of professional interest is evidence-based practice and how humanistic therapies can engage with this paradigm in order to expand the range of therapies available to service-users in the NHS. As part of this work Andy is interested in how stronger links between research, training and practice can produce better therapeutic services and improved outcomes for service-users. Andy is currently Head of Research at BACP and so has an ongoing involvement in commissioning projects, undertaking research and disseminating research findings via the Association’s research journal Counselling and Psychotherapy Research and its annual research conference.   

Edition details

• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1446272095
• ISBN 13: 9781446272091
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240