Counselling and Psychotherapy

Reflections on Practice

Professor Carolyn Noble and Professor Elizabeth Day

Practice based and is able to explain how therapy is done with real clients
Information is relevant to practice in Australia (not the US)
Covers some controversial therapeutic techniques and shows how they may be used effectively with clients

Counselling and Psychotherapy

Reflections on Practice

Professor Carolyn Noble and Professor Elizabeth Day

Description

Counselling and Psychotherapy: Reflections on Practice comprises of 23 chapters from the practice of psychotherapy and counselling in Australia, its genesis comes from discussion between members of the Research Committee of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA) in 2012. PACFA is a peak body for the psychotherapy and counselling profession in this country.

The profession of psychotherapy and counselling in Australia continues to develop new and renewed modalities of practice across various disciplinary fields. The diversity of approaches and modalities arises for many reasons-historical, disciplinary, political-as well as from consumer input. Therapeutic approaches draw from frameworks across a spectrum of disciplines from the philosophically informed to the science-practitioner approaches. While each approach claims to be effective in its own domain, there is no single approach that proves to be most effective for most clients. Therapy is inherently intersubjective work, and the diversity of client bases will continue to call for diversity of therapeutic approaches as well as responses. Moreover clients will increasingly and rightly be the main arbiters of the effectiveness of the therapy they co-create in dialogue with their therapist.

Counselling and Psychotherapy

Reflections on Practice

Professor Carolyn Noble and Professor Elizabeth Day

Preface
1. Psychotherapy and Counselling
Part 1: Contemporary Horizons of Practice
Introduction
2. Feminist therapy: theories and practices
3. First Nations Healing: Indigenous Approaches to Counselling.
4. Diagnosis gone mad: Being present at the edge of 'difference'
5. The ethics of touch in contemporary psychotherapy
6. Using Film in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Part 2: Relational Therapies
Introduction
7. Therapy that fits: Feedback informed, client directed counselling
8. The Relational World of Existential Therapy & Counselling
9. Transforming anger in a colourful life
10. Adaptation and change in both client and counsellor, in a sexual abuse case
11. Kim: A case study demonstrating recovery from complex trauma
Part 3: Expressive Therapies
Introduction
12. Play Therapy
13. Dance movement therapy as a specialized form of counselling and psychotherapy
14. Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP)
15. From Fragmentation to Integration: Re-storying professional identity as a narrative therapist
Part 4: Integrative Approaches
Introduction
16. Metaphor in Counsellor Training
17. Stories of Constancy and Change: A Narrative Odyssey
18. The Artistry and Therapeutic Practice of Hypnotherapy
19. Moving Beyond Embodiment to 'Animation'-based Psychotherapy and Counselling
20. In search of myself: An integrative approach to working with a transgendered woman
Part 5: Psychodynamic Therapies
Introduction
21. Embodied imagination: Working with dreams and memories to facilitate therapeutic change
21. Mental Illness or Complex Trauma? : From diagnosis to recovery
22 'Forget Me Not'- My Journey through Jungian Analysis - a Case Presentation

Counselling and Psychotherapy

Reflections on Practice

Professor Carolyn Noble and Professor Elizabeth Day

Author Information

Professor Carolyn Noble, Head of School, School of Social Work, Australian College Applied Psychology (ACAP),Professor Elizabeth Day, Senior Lecturer, Counselling & Psychotherapy, School of Social Work, Australian College Applied Psychology (ACAP)

Professor Carolyn Noble, Inaugural Head of School of Social Work and Professor of Social Work, Australian College of Applied Psychology, PhD, Master of Social Work, Bachelor of Social Work (University of New South Wales).

Dr Elizabeth Day, Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of School in Counselling and Psychotherapy, Australian College of Applied Psychology, PhD (MU), Advanced Diploma of Relational Gestalt Psychotherapy (Gestalt Therapy Australia), Advanced Certificate in Gestalt Counselling (Gestalt Therapy Australia), Bachelor of Arts (Hons) (Melb).

Contributors:

The contributors of this book all work as counsellors and psychotherapists in a range of fields of practice. They include: Alison Strasser; Amanda Stuart; Eileen Davis; Elizabeth Anne Riley; Frankie Shane Merritt; Gena Fawns; Graeme James; Jane Clark; Jane Guthrie; Jay Anderson; Jennifer Hume; Jillian Lynch; Judi Parson; Judith de Lang; Karen Stagnitti; Kim Dunphy; Kylie Pidgeon; Lucinda Mora; Maggie Broome; Mary Goslet; Michael Reed; Michelle Morris; Nathan Beel; Rob Hadfield; Ruth Thorne; Sandra Kay Lauffenburger; Sue Mullane; Tammy Robinson; Toni Woodward and Vivienne Mountain