Materials in the training, development and supervision section cover current issues or resources in training and supervision.
Refreshingly direct and clear, with bullet points regularly summing up main points to be used as practical aids or spurs to reflection, Cozolino’s words will be reassuring and helpful to therapists at the beginning of their journey, and an enjoyable, sometimes thought-provoking companion to those already practising.
Online training for counsellors and therapists remains in a state of infancy, leaving counsellors in practice (or in training) to take on the job themselves of locating materials that will advance their understanding of the practice and process of online therapeutic work.
Centuries ago we learned that lack of vitamin C causes scurvy and now getting enough of this vitamin is known to be a necessity for good health. For good mental health, a nurturing mother figure (“vitamin M”, if you will) is just as important.
The biggest barriers to effectively marketing your private practice might not have very much to do with marketing itself, or with competition.
This book provides an excellent overview of the primary theoretical approaches to counselling and psychotherapy as practised in the United Kingdom. Covering history, theory, primary client set and strengths and weaknesses for each of thirteen different approaches, the book makes an excellent starting point for exploring different schools of thought in more detail.
What makes good supervision? Here are some of my ideas about what I value in supervision as a supervisee, and about what I try to offer in turn as a supervisor.
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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