Seemingly aimed both at students and at internet-illiterates, this book provides fairly comprehensive coverage of the history and development of online counseling. As a practical guide or handbook, however, it lacks depth.

Tags: online therapy

Written by four luminaries of the mindfulness movement in psychotherapy and counselling, The Mindful Way through Depression is a self-help book in the best sense of the term, and you don't need to suffer from depression to find it useful.

Tags: cbt, depression, mindfulness, philosophy, Research

Aimed at therapists and those in "helping professions" looking at making the crossover to work in life coaching, this book puts across the essence of this relatively new profession very effectively. For those who have made the decision to move to life coaching, it will be a support and inspiration. But does life coaching really offer anything different from core counselling principles like empathy, genuineness and unconditional positive regard?

Tags: Coaching, Person-Centred, philosophy, therapy

This hard hitting book rages with fierce polemic, horrifies and informs in equal measure with its rich use of raw material by 'insiders' and its uncompromising stance, and finally convinces me that it offers a sound method for dealing with anorexia and bulimia -- although I am not convinced that it is the only one.

Tags: eating disorder, therapy

Aimed at practising cognitive behavioural therapists, 'Cognitive Behaviour Therapy' offers eleven chapters of the newest developments in applying CBT to work with particular client populations.

Tags: anxiety, bipolar disorder, cbt, depression, eating disorder, personality disorder

Minor complaints aside, 'Technology in Counselling and Psychotherapy' offers a solid contribution to the literature on how technology in three specific areas has been used in counselling and psychotherapy.

Tags: introduction, online therapy, Research, technology

While suffering somewhat from a lack of focus on the book's intended themes, the individual contributions in this edited collection of 16 chapters nonetheless make worthwhile reading in and of themselves. (Review originally published in 2003.)

Tags: effectiveness, politics, Research, therapy

'Existential Counselling & Psychotherapy in Practice' offers a remarkably accessible introduction to existential work which will be of interest both to practitioners and to clients evaluating this approach. (Review originally published in 2003.)

Tags: existentialism, introduction, philosophy, therapy

For over four decades, the message from psychotherapy outcome research has been getting clearer: the theories and techniques of professional therapy have very little to do with therapeutic success. (Review originally published in 2003.)

Tags: effectiveness, Research, therapy

With an entertaining and thought-provoking style, 'Psychology and the Reflective Counsellor' brings basic, straightforward knowledge from current psychology to counselling. (Review originally published in 2003.)

Tags: Psychology, therapy