Counselling and Therapy Book Reviews, Page 2

Welcome to our reviews of books in counselling, psychotherapy, psychology and related fields.

The Mindful Way Through Depression

Last updated 28th 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

Last updated 13th 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

Last updated 6th 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

Last updated 1st 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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Boss on Trauma and Ambiguous Loss

Last updated 31st March 2008
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Rating: 4.5

Comprehensive, clear and well referenced, this guide to the theory and practice of dealing with ambiguous loss — loss without closure — provides a realistic hope, not that we will “get over it”, but that it is possible to live with the uncertainty and the unknown.

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