Main description:

Therapy and Beyond: Counselling Psychology Contributions toTherapeutic and Social Issues presents an overview of theorigins, current practices, and potential future of the disciplineof counselling psychology. * Presents an up-to-date review of the knowledge base behind thediscipline of counselling psychology that addresses the notion ofhuman wellbeing and critiques the concept of psychopathology * Includes an assessment of the contributions that counsellingpsychology makes to understanding people as individuals, in theirworking lives, and in wider social domains * Offers an overview of counselling psychology's contributionsbeyond the consulting room, including practices in the domain ofspirituality, the arts and creative media, and the environmentalmovement * Critiques contemporary challenges facing research as well asthe role that research methods have in responding to questionsabout humanity and individual experience

Contents:

Notes on Contributors. Foreword. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Therapy and Beyond: Counseling PsychologyContributions to Therapeutic and Social Issues. Section 1: Fundamentals of Counseling Psychology. 1 Philosophical Pluralism: Navigating the Sea of Diversity inPsychotherapeutic and Counseling Psychology Practice (DonalMcAteer). 2 Existential-phenomenological Contributions to CounselingPsychology s Relational Framework (Elena Manafi). 3 Counseling Psychology and Research: Revisiting theRelationship in the Light of Our Mission (DeborahRafalin). 4 Understanding Human Distress: Moving beyond the Concept of Psychopathology (Martin Milton, Mark Craven andAdrian Coyle). 5 Being with Humans: An Evolutionary Framework for theTherapeutic Relationship (Frances Gillies). 6 Ethics: The Fundamental Dimension of CounselingPsychology (Camilla Olsen). Section 2: Models of Practice. 7 Different Theoretical Differences and Contextual Influences(Riccardo Draghi-Lorenz). 8 Humanistic Contributions to Pluralistic Practice (HeidiAshley). 9 Psychodynamic Contributions to Pluralistic Practice (DeboraDiamond). 10 Cognitive-behavioural Contributions to Pluralistic Practice:Reflections on an Issue of Some Contention (TerryBoucher). 11 Amor Fati: Existential Contributions to PluralisticPractice (Elena Manafi). Section 3: Counseling Psychology and the Wider World. 12 The Counseling Psychologist Working in a Pain Context(Natalie Hession). 13 Working with Sport and Exercise Psychologists: A WinningCombination? (Jill Owen). 14 The R Word (Joanna Lofthouse). 15 Counseling Psychology Contributions to UnderstandingSexuality (Colin Hicks). 16 Counseling Psychology Contributions to Religion andSpirituality (Adrian Coyle). 17 Counseling Psychology and the Media: The Highs and Lows(Lucy Atcheson). 18 Coming Home to Roost: Counseling Psychology and the NaturalWorld (Martin Milton). Epilogue: And Finally . Index.