Existential therapies / Mick Cooper.

By:

Cooper, Mick (Chartered counselling psychologist) [author.]

Language: English Publisher: Los Angeles : SAGE, [2017]Edition: Second editionDescription: xv, 215 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781446201282
9781446201299 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

NLM classification:

WM 460.5.E8

Summary: What does it mean to practice therapy in an existential way? What are the different existential approaches? What are their strengths and limitations? Focusing on practical, face-to-face work with clients, the book introduces students to six existential therapies, highlighting areas of commonality and difference, and discusses key figures and their contributions, including Yalom, van Deurzen, Spinelli, Frankl and Laing. It outlines the critical perspectives and key debates, and presents implications for practice, reflection and further reading. Fully updated to reflect current issues, this book now includes: · Sections presenting research evidence for each approach · An extended case study running through the book, demonstrating how different therapies might approach the same case · Chapter overviews, questions for reflection, and additional case studies of actual existential practice.

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	BEH-MHT Library Service Shelves	WM 460.5.E8 COO 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		BEH00928

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What does it mean to practice therapy in an existential way? What are the different existential approaches? What are their strengths and limitations?
Focusing on practical, face-to-face work with clients, the book introduces students to six existential therapies, highlighting areas of commonality and difference, and discusses key figures and their contributions, including Yalom, van Deurzen, Spinelli, Frankl and Laing. It outlines the critical perspectives and key debates, and presents implications for practice, reflection and further reading.

Fully updated to reflect current issues, this book now includes:
· Sections presenting research evidence for each approach
· An extended case study running through the book, demonstrating how different therapies might approach the same case
· Chapter overviews, questions for reflection, and additional case studies of actual existential practice.

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