Recommended Books

 

 

                                   

 

 


Recommended Books for Supervisees

See also ‘books for students’
 

Karasu, T.                           
Wisdom in the practice of psychotherapy


Shipton,
S & Smith, E        Long-Term Counselling     

 

BRIEF THERAPY


    Cade, B.&
O`Hanlon, W.H.        

   
A Brief Guide to Brief Therapy
     
An excellent overview


    De Shazer,
S.                                    
Key Solutions in Brief therapy    


   
De Shazer,
S.                    

               
Clues: Investigating Solutions in
Brief Therap
y


   

De Shazer, S. 

                                  
Putting difference to work

 

GROUPWORK

     Whitaker, Dorothy        
     
Using Groups To help people
 
               
Explores group dynamics thoroughly and practically

     Houston, G                            Red book of groups                        
            
Practical and insightful

     Benson                                  Working more creatively with groups      
By an Irish author – useful for
novice groupworkers

    

Brandes            
                  
Gamesters Handbook Two                         Basic
exercises for general
groups   

    
Brandes
& Phillips 

          
Gamesters Handbook                  
               Basic exercises for general groups

    Remocker and
Storch       Action Speaks Louder: A
Handbook of Structured Group Techniques    

Non verbal exercises

    Stevens, J.O.                        Awareness                                                       
Excellent in-depth exploratory
exercises for psychotherapy groups


    Ernst &
Goodison                In Our Own Hands     
                                    
Considers different therapies and self-help exercises from each

 


CLIENT
EXPERIENCES


    Axline,V.      
                    

   
Dibs: In Search of Self      
Essential reading for all. A delightful book


    Sands, A .
                           
Falling for therapy:
Psychotherapy from a clients point of view


    Cardinal, Marie.     
            The
Words To Say It      


  A

clients story of neglect and sexual abuse

 

PERSON CENTRED THERAPY       


    Mearns & Thorne (2000)
                                  
Person Centred Therapy Today   


    Mearns, D.            
                          

                     
Developing Person Centred Counselling     


 

PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY


    Mcloughlin, B.         

    
Developing Psychodynamic Counselling    


    Jacobs, Michael       
 The Presenting Past     2nd ed 


    Casement, P.             
 
On
Learning from the Patient    

 
  Fromm,
E.                       Fear of Freedom

 


EXISTENTIAL
PSYCHOTHERAPY


   Yalom, I.
D.      
                 

               
Existential Psychotherapy
a classic
  


   Deurzen-Smith, Emmy van.      

  
Existential Counselling in Practice 


   Yalom, I.
D.        
                               

Loves Executioner
case histories (popular)
        


  
Frankl, V.                                            
Mans search for meaning – essential


  


Deurzen-Smith, Emmy van.

        
Everyday Mysteries

 

GESTALT


  Mackewn,
J
                           Developing Gestalt Counselling

  Zinker                                      Creative
Process in Gestalt therapy


 

 

TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS


   
James, M. & Jongeward, D.      
Born to Win
    

               
Excellent classic, still the best
    

 


COGNITIVE
BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY



   


Burns, D.              
The Feeling Good Handbook          
     
The best     

                 


   
Trower, P., Casey,
A. & Dryden,W.         
Cognitive-Behavioural therapy in Action
    


  

INTEGRATION


    Kahn, M.            
                              
Between Therapist and Client


    Dryden, W.
& Norcross, J.          Eclecticism
& Integration in Counselling & Psychotherapy  

   Heron, J.                               
Helping the Client

   

   


INTERPERSONAL


   
Miell and Dallos          
Social Interaction and Personal Relationships
        


    Miller, J.            
           
   
Addictive relationships  


    Fromm, E.                       
The Art of
loving              


    


 SEXUALITY


    Davies & Neal.          
                      Pink Therapy.     

 


GRIEF THERAPY


   
Worden, J.W.         
                         Grief Counselling & Grief Therapy       


    Auden, W.H.      
                            

 Stop
All The Clocks


    Humprey & Zimplerx.                    Counselling for Grief    

 


 SEXUAL
ABUSE


   
Maya, Angelou.       
                      

 
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings   
 
A
clients story. Essential reading for therapists 


    Cardinal, Marie.     
                          The Words To Say It        

A clients
story. Essential reading for therapists 


    Hall, L.& Lloyd, S.           

                
Surviving Child Sexual Abuse       


    Drauker, C.

B.                                    
Counselling Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
  


   
Parks
                    

                             
Rescuing the inner child   

    Parks                                                    The counsellors guide to parks
inner child

therapy  

    Dolan, Yvonne                                  
Various books

 


CULTURAL


    Lago & Thompson.          
             Race, Culture and Counselling   


   
d`Ardenne, P. & Mahtani,
A.
     
Trancultural Counselling in action  

 

CLIENT ISSUES


    Chaplin, J.                         
                
Feminist Counselling in Action     


   
Hallam, R.                                         
Counselling for Anxiety   


    Knight, B.                                         
  
Psychotherapy with Older adults  


   
Scott & Stradling.                           
 Counselling
for PTSD  


   
   


CHILDHOOD


    Miller, A.                          
The Drama of the Gifted Child
&
Thou Shalt Not Be Aware       

  Stern, D. N. (1985)   The Interpersonal
World of the Infant

 

MISC



   
Wilber, K.                     No Boundary



   


Haley, J.                      Uncommon Therapy                           


                
             

   
McGoldrick & Gerson    

     Genograms         

   
Brazier, D.                  
Zen therapy

 


GESTALT
BODYWORK PSYCHOTHERAPY

    Kepner, J. I.   
Body Process

    Smith, W. L.   The
Body in Psychotherapy

 


HUMANISTIC


  
Heron, J.             
                              Helping the Client     


  
Rowan, J.          
                               The Reality Game               

   


FOR TRAINERS & SUPERVISORS

    Johns, J.                                            Personal
Development in Counsellor Training

   
Dryden, Horton & Mearns           Issues in
Professional Counsellor Training

    Inskipp, F.                                         Counselling:
The Trainers Handbook                  

  For novice trainers

    Merry,
Tony.                   
               
Learning & being in Person centred Counselling,   PCCS 
useful exercises

  
Sue Wheeler     
Research on Supervision of Counsellors & Psychotherapists: A systematic scoping
search

   
Wampold, B.      The great psychotherapy debate:
models, method, and findings

 

 

       
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