Counselling and Therapy Book Reviews, Page 2

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Online Counseling: A Handbook For Mental Health Professionals

By Sarah Luczaj | 12 May 2009
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Rating: 3

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.

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The Mindful Way Through Depression

By Sarah Luczaj | 28 April 2009
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Rating: 4.5

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.

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Helping Adolescents at Risk: Prevention of Multiple Problem Behaviors

By Professor Colin Feltham | 13 May 2008
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Rating: 4

This is a rigorous scholarly text dedicated to a very real social problem, and it does try to identify successful and unsuccessful community and state-wide attempts to prevent or reduce youth problems. It doesn’t pretend to be a self-help book or parenting manual, or indeed a profound philosophical or political analysis.

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Berg and Szabo on Brief Coaching

By Professor Colin Feltham | 6 May 2008
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Rating: 3.5

This book is a good ready-to-go manual for the new or busy coach looking for new ideas or reinforcement of practice enthusiasm. Whether it lives up to its promise of providing lasting solutions is something that only time and longitudinal research studies can tell.

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Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology

By Professor Colin Feltham | 1 May 2008
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Rating: 4.5

At a time when Complementary and Alternative Therapies have (again) been under fire from some university scientists for falsely claiming scientific status, and in an era of evidence-based psychotherapy, this book is a key text. It should have a place on all postgraduate counselling and psychotherapy courses, but I suspect it will not be so readily accommodated.

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