Difference and Diversity in Counselling: Contemporary Psychodynamic Approaches

by Sue Wheeler

Overview

Psychodynamic counseling is rooted in psychoanalytic tradition. It relates to a rich wealth of material that helps us to understand the functioning of the human psyche, the stages of human development, and provides us with the potential for insight and understanding when things go wrong or when expectations are not fulfilled. The depth and breadth of theory can be very challenging to trainees or professionals, yet few books seem to take into account the modern world in which diversity abounds. This book provides a comprehensive look at how psychoanalytic thoughts can be applied to counselling to meet the demands of the twenty-first century, particularly by addressing diversity in all its forms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403943279
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/01/2006
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.43(d)

About the Author

SUE WHEELER has been a Counsellor and Psychotherapist in several settings over the last 30 years. She has also been training counsellors and psychotherapists for most of those years, and is now the Director of the Counselling Psychotherapy Programme at the University of Leicester, UK. She is the author of many articles in processional and refereed journals and has contributed to many chapters in books on counselling and supervision. She is the sole author of Training Counsellors: The Assessment of Competence, the joint author with Janice Birtle of Personal Tutoring in Higher Education and with David King of Supervising Counsellors: Issues of Responsibility. Her doctorate addressed the professionalization of counselling and the continuing professional development needs of counsellors and therapists. She has had numerous positions of BACP committees and remains committed to the development of counselling as a profession.
SUE WHEELER has been a Counsellor and Psychotherapist in several settings over the last 30 years. She has also been training counsellors and psychotherapists for most of those years, and is now the Director of the Counselling Psychotherapy Programme at the University of Leicester, UK. She is the author of many articles in processional and refereed journals and has contributed to many chapters in books on counselling and supervision. She is the sole author of Training Counsellors: The Assessment of Competence, the joint author with Janice Birtle of Personal Tutoring in Higher Education and with David King of Supervising Counsellors: Issues of Responsibility. Her doctorate addressed the professionalization of counselling and the continuing professional development needs of counsellors and therapists. She has had numerous positions of BACP committees and remains committed to the development of counselling as a profession.

Table of Contents

Introduction
PART 1: SOCIAL CONTEXT AND SOCIETY
Thinking Psychodynamically About Diversity
Psychodynamic Counselling, Knowledge and the Social Context
PART 2: GENDER AND SEXUALITY
Psychodynamic Counselling and Gender
Psychodynamic Counselling and Sexual Orientation
Female Counsellor, Male Client; Counselling across Gender
PART 3: DISABILITY AND OLD AGE
Counselling People with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses: A Psychodynamic Approach
No Words to Say It: Psychodynamic Counselling When Language is Absent or Impaired
Psychodynamic Counselling with Older People
PART 4: RACE CULTURE AND RELIGION
Psychodynamic Counselling, 'Race' and Culture
Psychodynamic Counselling and Class
Psychodynamic Counselling, Religion and Spirituality

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From the Publisher

[E]ssential reading for all experienced counsellors and psychotherapists, those in training and those who wish to increase their understanding of the major aspects of difference and diversity.' - Therapy Today