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Explores the theory and practice of survivor research, provides practical examples of survivor research and offers guidance for people wishing to carry out such research themselves. This book is suitable for policy makers, researchers, educators, students, service users and practitioners in the mental health field and beyond.

Therapy is not a matter of technique but is rather an art or craft and has much to learn from other forms of art and craft, such as painting, fiction, music and poetry. Like artists, therapists need to feel free if they are to be truly creative. This book presents an argument for that therapeutic freedom.

Aims to move services away from responses based on fear and assumptions that we need to manage and control young people who self harm. This book discusses ways in which services can change the focus from managing or 'stopping' self harm to working with young people in more permissive, 'young person centred' and empowering ways.

Suitable for mental health service users, their carers, students and mental health professionals, this book presents a frank introduction to the causes of mental health problems.

Suitable for Diploma, Masters and Undergraduate level counselling students and practitioners of humanistic counselling and psychotherapy. This book demonstrates that person-centred theory has real depth in its ability to address.

Focuses on the practice of core counselling and professional skills, with vignettes, activities, notes from practice, full references, suggestions for further reading and a running glossary.

For students, researchers or practitioners wanting a succinct guide to person-centred theory and practice.

Tells how family and friends of people with complex mental health needs frequently have to battle for, and often with, mental health services, whilst they themselves can be stigmatised. This title is suitable for students in mental health disciplines, psychiatric service users, carers and indeed everyone with an interest in mental health.

Suitable for students of mental health disciplines, psychiatric service users, and carers, this book offers information that you need to make informed choices about psychiatric drugs. It presents practical advice on the right questions to ask if you are prescribed medication for mental health problems and what happens on withdrawal of medication.

Suitable for students of mental health disciplines, psychiatric service users, and carers, this book offers information that you need to make informed choices about a child's diagnosis and treatment. It offers advice on things parents can try themselves, common pitfalls to avoid, and how to find the professionals you need.

Describes person-centred principles and their implementation in everyday care. This book highlights the themes that become relevant in the last chapters of life, and their impact on care for old people. It intends to demonstrate how the Person-Centred Approach can be transferred into practice.

A comprehensive person-centred look at the family as th essential element of society. Explores our human need to be inter-connected and its implications for both individual and family therapy.

Presents a series of papers outlining genuine theory and practice for various counsellors and therapists, not only those of a person-centred persuasion.

Leads the serious students to an appreciation of Unconditional Positive Regard. This title lets readers from various disciplines discover how contemporary person-centred therapists are thinking about, and working with, this 'core' condition.

Peggy Natiello's collection of work has become a favourite amongst students on Person-Centred courses throughout the UK. It is a scholarly, much referenced work on collaborative power and gender issues.

We hear about the effects of early abandonment, abuse and lack of attachment, but find that children's experiences are sanitised through medical diagnoses and frequently the 'help' offered is prescription drugs. This book examines how children are hurt in modern society.

Genuineness, transparency, authenticity and realness are the terms used to convey the concept of congruence. This book focuses on, and collects critical explorations of, this therapeutic condition.

Lovelessness and loneliness cannot be explained by chemical changes in the brain and cured by the ingestion of drugs. Lovelessness and loneliness, like anxiety and depression and all the ways of expressing distress which are called mental disorder, are part of what it is to be human, but part that can be understood.

The book covers all the topics that prospective trainees could wish to know about from funding and course applications through to what happens when you finish the course. It is a compendium of unsentimental testimony from dozens of trainees with some contributions from trainers to complete the picture.

Andrea Koch develops both theory and practice in the first book on person-centred approaches to working therapeutically with dreams.

Pre-therapy is a method for anyone wanting to work with people whose ability to establish and maintain psychological contact is impaired temporarily or permanently, by illness or injury, whether of organic or psychological origin.

Explores links between Ericksonian hypnotherapy and Rogerian person-centred therapy. Gunnison calls his eclectic approach 'hypnocounseling'. Chapters cover theory and practice with two appendices containing scripts for hypnocounseling strategies.