Experiences of Counselling in Action

by Windy Dryden (Editor), Dave Mearns (Editor)

`How hard it is to find a book to recommend to trainees, which will give them an insight into what counselling (and psychotherapy too, for that matter) is really like. This book does exactly that... This is a book which would be equally useful to the humanistic practitioner and the more orthodox one. The breadth of sympathy is admirable in dealing with what is common to all orientations. This is one of those rare books which does justice both to the human experiences involved in counselling and psychotherapy, and to the theory which might explain those experiences′ - Changes What is the experience of counselling from the perspectives of both client and counsellor? What can be learned for the

160 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1990

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.

Reviews

[David Lai · Rating 2 out of 5]

Decent book on experiences of counselling from the both sides of the room -- the counsellor's and the client's. We're reminded that counselling is principally a relationship, that there are impediments to making that relationship work, that failure is always possible, and that success may not be all due to the counselling process.

There are various contributors, so the chapters vary in interest and readability. Dave Mearns, as well as being co-editor, contributes two chapters, each characteristically wacky in some way -- his section on flexible working struck me as particularly far-out.

[Aveen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read as part of my training, all these in action books are great. clear information, easily read.