Counselling Difficult Clients

The Counselling Transaction The Influence of Past Interactions Counselling Transactions in Context Assessment for Counselling Practical Points From Beginning to End Preserving Respective Roles Restoring the Public-Personal Equilibrium Utilising Contextual Influences Interface with Other Models

`[In this book] "difficult clients" is meant as "difficulties with clients"... I like to be challenged in my thinking and there was much about this book that I found thought-provoking and challenging, and which made me re-examine my basic philosophy and approach to counselling... Counselling Difficult Clients is a well-organized book. I liked the use of case work to illustrate both theoretical concepts and practices... For the newly trained counsellor this book offers organizational, practical and theoretical advice... it gives a good academic overview of understanding how client-counsellor interactions can become difficult, together with some preventative techniques and case-work examples' - Counselling, The Journal of The British Association for Counselling `This book raises awareness of the human qualities professionals bring to every psychotherapeutic relationship. It is an accessible description of how counselling can go dreadfully wrong. There are several case examples to which the authors return again and again to illustrate their points. All mental health professionals use counselling skills to some extent in their work. This is a pragmatic analysis of the difficulties that may arise in any therapeutic relationship. Nurses, doctors and social workers, as well as counsellors themselves, will find it useful' - British Journal of Psychiatry `The book follows a logical progression and uses case-studies to particularly good effect' - Therapeutic Communities This is a refreshing text for those interested in counselling but without experience. I would recommend this to counsellors in training and those interested in teaching and training counsellors and psychotherapists' - International Review of Psychiatry