Cultures for Performance in Health Care

This thoroughly revised and expanded version of the best-selling text, An Introduction to Counselling provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of counseling and therapy. It is written in a clear, accessible style, covers all the core approaches to counseling, and takes a critical, questioning approach to issues of professional practice. This second edition includes new chapters on systemic, feminist, narrative and multiculturalist approaches to counseling; a new chapter on power, and the way that power can be used and abused in counseling; and a new chapter that examines ways of making sense of the actual process of counseling. In addition, the text has been further enlivened by short, illustrative vignettes or case studies.

Thoroughly up-to-date, with exhaustive references, An Introduction to Counselling is a classic introduction to its subject.