Mental Health in Counselling and Psychotherapy

A good explanation of many of the conditions psychotherapists and counsellors could encounter. It is a practical book and I like the case studies and activities. -- Angela Rowlands * drupal *
Excellent textbook which could be used in a number of modules -- Dr Pauline Irving * drupal *
An essential read for anyone studying mental health -- Miss Nicola Lord * drupal *
This is a great book exploring mental health. It has relevant statistics on mental health issues. this will compliment learners studying counselling and mental health. Although it is much more geered to intergrative and CBT counselling rather than Person Centred.It quotes the DSMIV and this is good although the DSM has now been revised to the fifth edition information can still be used. -- Miss Sam Ford * drupal *
This will be a useful recourse for students to look at the connections with Mental Health and talking therapies. If only to explore how counselling sits within this relationship. -- Mr Hu Clarke * drupal *
Lucid Chapters: coherent and organised. Very readable. I liked the account of individual form of mental distance. However chapter 10 was a damp squib - very different from reality. -- Mr Mike Ogley * drupal *
A practical book that is informative and interesting to read, will be suitable for students on the counselling course who want to further their understanding of mental health related issues and knowledge. -- Mr Paul Cassedy * drupal *
An extremely useful introduction for counselling students into the wider area of the mental health profession. This book provides a common language for counsellors working alongside other professionals, particularly in the medical field. -- Mr Paul Turley * drupal *
The Book has been used for students undertaking AMHP training. -- Mr Robert Wu * drupal *
this textbook provides students with a good grounding in working with a range of ′mental health issues′ within a counselling context. -- Mrs Suzan Flannery * drupal *
excellent introduction to the field of mental health and usefully places Counselling within that relationship -- Ms Carol Hughes * drupal *
This is a good, informative text with diagnostic and medical perspectives on mental illness/wellbeing/health. Not directly relevant to the practice of art psychotherapy, it is nevertheless hugely applicable to its wider contexts. -- Ms Deborah Gibson * drupal *
I like the language and clarity of structure and layout. The chapters 2 and 3 are very helpful to initiate a trainee starting to think about the complexity of the work. The book lacks the sophistication and complex critical stance necessary for advanced (M+D level) trainings but I will use it with undergraduate students as a starting point. -- Ms Jo Cruywagen * drupal *
With BACP new standards for training courses this book is essential as it covers a comprehensive range of issues surrounding mental health and drugs (prescription and recreational). Chapters are set out clearly and the activities are useful as discussion points. -- Ms Jo-Anne Graham * drupal *
Easy to read. First access text to complete subject. Some of the therapeutic approaches seemed a bit out of date? Esp lack of information on affect theory (neuroscience) wnr links with mental health. Classical new of psychoanalysis- this is not the whole of psychoanalysis, or cattelporacy. -- Ms Raje Suzanne Airey * drupal *