Issues in Professional Counselor Training

by Windy Dryden, Dave Mearns, Ian Horton

What is professional counsellor training? This book attempts to answer this question and in doing so provides a template for the design of counsellor training.
The expert authors consider the major issues that need to be addressed when designing and running a professional counsellor training course. Throughout, the book emphasizes that good professional counselling training integrates personal, practical and intellectual aspects of the functioning of trainees.
A core theoretical model is described and the implications and common misunderstandings of this central aspect of counsellor training are analysed. Chapters cover the key issues of skills training, staffing and resources, client work, professional development and assessment.

Hardcover

First published September 1, 1995

About the author

Windy Dryden is one of the leading practitioners and trainers in the UK in the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) tradition of psychotherapy. He is best known for his work in Rational-Emotive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (RECBT), a leading CBT approach. He has been working in the field of counselling and psychotherapy since 1975 and was one of the first people in Britain to be trained in CBT and has trained with Drs. Albert Ellis, Aaron T. Beck, and Arnold Lazarus.

He has published over 200 books and has trained therapists all over the world, in as diverse places as the UK, the USA, South Africa, Turkey, and Israel.

He is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.