Time-Limited Counselling / Edition 1

by Colin Feltham

Overview

‘Excellent... [the book] explores the "provision of effective counselling with limited resources and under strict time pressures "... with some excellent writing on the nature of time and attitudes to time in counselling and psychotherapy... the evidence in favour [of short-term counselling] is put strongly. Colin Feltham favours it as an approach of choice for certain clients, which should coexist with (rather than adversarially seek to oust and replace) longer-term therapy... he draws from a wide range of literature, while identifying those key ingredients, skills and strategies that he has found especially significant. He also discusses some of the different contexts in which this work operates... Many of the questions and issues he poses

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803979758
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/31/1996
Series:	Professional Skills for Counsellors Series , #1
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.08(w) x 7.80(h) x (d)

About the Author

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?

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Nature of Time
Attitudes to Time in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Kinds and Models of Short-Term and Time-Limited Counselling and Psychotherapy
The Appropriateness of Time-Limited Counselling for Different Clients
Key Ingredients, Skills and Strategies
Case Examples
Learning from Experience
Problems and Troubleshooting
Management of Time-Limited Counselling in Context
Training, Supervision, Evaluation and Research Issues

Editorial Reviews

‘Excellent... [the book] explores the "provision of effective counselling with limited resources and under strict time pressures "... with some excellent writing on the nature of time and attitudes to time in counselling and psychotherapy... the evidence in favour [of short-term counselling] is put strongly. Colin Feltham favours it as an approach of choice for certain clients, which should co-exist with (rather than adversarially seek to oust and replace) longer-term therapy... The book is well researched. Colin Feltham draws from a wide range of literature, while identifying those key ingredients, skills and strategies that he has found especially significant. He also discusses some of the different contexts in which this work operates: EAPs, community, voluntary and statutory agencies, student counselling and private practice. Many of the questions and issues he poses... will be picked up most productively in training and supervision sessions' - Counselling, The Journal of the British Association for Counselling

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