Full Description
This text supports you to develop the counselling competencies aligned to the SCoPEd framework professional standards in Column B. It covers key competencies in client assessment, self-awareness, and knowledge and skills, with chapters on topics such as online counselling, working with unconscious and out-of-awareness processes, foundations of psychological assessment and using reflexivity in practice.
The book further emphasises the importance of research, with chapters on how to understand and evaluate quantitative and qualitative research and how both can enhance your practice. Throughout, the authors foreground diversity-informed and culturally sensitive ways of working, supporting you to adapt your skills and knowledge to meet your clients' needs.
Each chapter includes learning features such as practice-relevant examples, key definitions and opportunities for reflection, to support you on your learning and professional development journey.
Contents
Part 1: Diversity
Chapter 1: Developing culturally sensitive understandings of psychological distress - Tanya Frances
Chapter 2: Identity, culture and engagement in the therapeutic relationship - Sharon Frazer-Carroll
Chapter 3: Developing self-awareness in working with diversity - Zoë Boden-Stuart
Chapter 4: Recognising and working with the decolonised self - Dwight Turner
Part 2: Reflexivity
Chapter 5: Using reflexivity in counselling - Jennie Kirk
Chapter 6: Working with unconscious and out-of-awareness processes - Felicitas Rost, Naomi Moller
Chapter 7: Using reflexivity to develop and maintain emotional fitness - Claudine McFaul
Chapter 8: Using reflexivity in supervision - Trudi Macagnino
Part 3: Assessment
Chapter 9: Foundations of psychological assessment - Gina Di Malta
Chapter 10: Working with risk - Andrew Reeves
Chapter 11: Conceptualising and assessing mental health difficulties - Naomi Moller
Chapter 12: Using outcome measures to inform psychological assessment - Gina Di Malta, Jo-anne Carlyle and Chris Evans
Part 4: Research
Chapter 13: Why research matters for counsellors - Femke Truijens and Rebeka Pàzmànyovà
Chapter 14: Understanding and using quantitative research evidence - Felicitas Rost
Chapter 15: Understanding and using qualitative research evidence - Zoë Boden-Stuart
Chapter 16: Mixing methods for research-practice integration - Felicitas Rost and Femke Truijens
Part 5: Developing as a practitioner
Chapter 17: Online counselling - Andreas Vossler
Chapter 18: Complex formulation and meaning making - Hayley Ness
Chapter 19: Thinking critically about counselling and psychotherapy - Hayley Ness and Naomi Moller
Chapter 20: Adapting your way of working for individual clients - Kate Smith
