A jargon-free, practical account of the principles of counselling. The authors provide new insight into the philosophy of the helper as well as focussing on the theoretical concepts essential for good counselling. This book should be of interest to advanced students and professional trainees in clinical and educational psychology, counselling, therapy and pastoral care.

Personal Conversations: Roles and Skills for Counsellors (International Library of Psychology)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Trower, Peter

Lang, Gerrit

Look, Roger

Van Der Molen, Henk

Psychology & Counseling

Routledge

Social Skills and Mental Health (Psychology Revivals)

In the 10 years or so prior to original publication in 1978 new theories and discoveries in the social sciences had given a scientific basis and new impetus to the development of social skills training as a form of therapy. This book explores the progress made with this idea and gives practical guidance for therapists based on several years’ experience with the technique. The book provides an account of the latest ideas at the time, about the analysis of social behaviour – non-verbal communication, social skill, rules, analysis of situations, etc. The different techniques for training and modifying social behaviour – some old, some very new – are described and compared, with detailed accounts. There is a careful critical review of follow-up studies of social skills training and other forms of social therapy on in-patients, out-patients and volunteer subjects. The second part of the book consists of a manual for assessing deficits and difficulties, and for training in ten main areas of social deficiency such as observation, listening, speaking, asserting and planning. A rating scale, questionnaire and user’s booklet of training exercises is included. The book should be of interest, not only to psychiatric professionals – psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychiatric nurses, occupational therapists – but to many others, such as social and community workers, teachers, prison officers, and lay people who may be interested in forming self-help groups, either on their own or with professional guidance.

Argyle, Michael

Bryant, Bridget

Mental Health

Radical Approaches to Social Skills Training (Psychology Revivals)

Originally published in 1984, one of the few facts that emerged clearly in the beleaguered field of psychology and mental health at the time was the extent of poor social skills in psychiatric patients, the mentally handicapped and problem adolescents. As a result, during the 1970s, social skills training – espoused as a form of behaviour therapy – seemed to offer great promise, based on the notion that social skills, like any other skills, are learnt and can be taught if lacking. However, in evaluating social skills training, many investigators found that skills did not endure and generalise. This book attempts a major re-assessment of social skills training. It examines the underlying paradigms, which are shown to be fundamentally behaviourist. Such paradigms, it is argued, severely constrain the aims and method of current types of training. Thus the book develops what is termed an ‘agency’ approach, based on man as a social agent who actively constructs his own experiences and generates his own goal-directed behaviour on the basis of those constructs. This new model is developed in both theoretical and practical ways in the main body of the book and should, even today, be of great interest to all those involved with social skills training.

Originally published in 1984, one of the few facts that emerged clearly in the beleaguered field of psychology and mental health at the time was the extent of poor social skills in psychiatric patients, the mentally handicapped and problem adolescents. As a result, during the 1970s, social skills training – espoused as a form of behaviour therapy – seemed to offer great promise, based on the notion that social skills, like any other skills, are learnt and can be taught if lacking. However, in evaluating social skills training, many investigators found that skills did not endure and generalise. This book attempts a major re-assessment of social skills training. It examines the underlying paradigms, which are shown to be fundamentally behaviourist. Such paradigms, it is argued, severely constrain the aims and method of current types of training. Thus the book develops what is termed an ‘agency’ approach, based on man as a social agent who actively constructs his own experiences and generates his own goal-directed behaviour on the basis of those constructs. This new model is developed in both theoretical and practical ways in the main body of the book and should, even today, be of great interest to all those involved with social skills training.

Social skills and mental health

METHUEN

Why Does Schizophrenia Develop at Late Adolescence?: A Cognitive-Developmental Approach to Psychosis

Governments around the world have given priority to "early intervention", i.e. the early diagnosis and treatment of young adults with psychotic symptoms. One of the main problems with this approach, is that only a small proportion of these young adults can be expected to go on to develop schizophrenia, yet all the treatment regimes are derived from work with adults who have had full psychotic episodes. Why Does Schizophrenia Develop at Late Adolescence? proposes a controversial new model of how schizophrenia develops in late adolescence and presents clinical material aimed at influencing the way psychosis is treated, building on a state-of-the-art reassessment of the field.  A major reconceptualisation of how schizophrenia develops A controversial approach Early intervention programmes are now extremely widespread, so there is much interest in the area and how best to treat this serious psychotic disorder  

Harrop, Chris

wiley

Governments around the world have given priority to "early intervention", i.e. the early diagnosis and treatment of young adults with psychotic symptoms. 
One of the main problems with this approach, is that only a small proportion of these young adults can be expected to go on to develop schizophrenia, yet all the treatment regimes are derived from work with adults who have had full psychotic episodes. Why Does Schizophrenia Develop at Late Adolescence? proposes a controversial new model of how schizophrenia develops in late adolescence and presents clinical material aimed at influencing the way psychosis is treated, building on a state-of-the-art reassessment of the field. <ul>
<li>A major reconceptualisation of how schizophrenia develops</li> <li>A controversial approach</li> <li>Early intervention programmes are now extremely widespread, so there is much interest in the area and how best to treat this serious psychotic disorder </li> </ul>

Internationally respected authors, actively working in this area, establish theoretical reasons for extending cognitive therapy to these symptoms. This includes a justification for looking at symptoms rather than syndromes, first-person accounts of delusions and hallucinations along with an analysis of why the cognitive approach is ideally suited to the study and treatment of these disabling disorders. Describes how to make a cognitive assessment of both hallucinations and delusions and which measures to use. Contains new research and methods of managing these severe psychoses.

Cognitive Therapy for Delusions, Voices and Paranoia (Wiley Series in Clinical Psychology)

Chadwick, Paul

Birchwood, Max J.

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Personal Conversations: Roles and Skills for Counsellors (International Library of Psychology)

Social Skills and Mental Health (Psychology Revivals)

Social Skills and Mental Health (Psychology Revivals)

Radical Approaches to Social Skills Training (Psychology Revivals)

Radical Approaches to Social Skills Training (Psychology Revivals)

Social skills and mental health

Social skills and mental health

Why Does Schizophrenia Develop at Late Adolescence?: A Cognitive-Developmental Approach to Psychosis

Why Does Schizophrenia Develop at Late Adolescence?: A Cognitive-Developmental Approach to Psychosis

Cognitive Therapy for Delusions, Voices and Paranoia (Wiley Series in Clinical Psychology)