Therapeutic Use of Self Counseling Practice, Research, and Supervision

The Therapeutic Use of Self: Counselling Practice, Research and Supervision is a ground-breaking examination of the individual therapists contribution to process and outcome in counselling. Counselling training courses tend to pay very little attention to what it is about the individual counsellor that governs their level of effectiveness. Using many powerful case examples and extensive research findings from the authors own work, this book presents the counsellors evaluation of their own practice as the main vehicle for the development of insight and awareness into individual therapeutic characteristics. It addresses many of the taboos and infrequently discussed aspects of therapy, such as The value of therapist failure Breaking the rules of counselling Working beyond the accepted boundaries of counselling The Therapeutic Use of Self: Counselling Practice, Research and Supervision will act as a spur to individual counsellors to acknowledge, develop and value their own unique contribution to thWosket, Val is the author of 'Therapeutic Use of Self Counseling Practice, Research, and Supervision', published 1999 under ISBN 9780415170901 and ISBN 0415170907.