The Practitioner's Handbook: A Guide for Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Counselling Psychologists

257 Pages·2008·0.789 MB·English

by  Professor Stephen Palmer, Professor Robert Bor

THE
PRACTITIONER’S
HANDBOOK
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THE
PRACTITIONER’S
HANDBOOK
A Guide for Counsellors,
Psychotherapists and Counselling
Psychologists
EDITED BY
Stephen Palmer and Robert Bor
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PrefaceandIntroduction©StephenPalmerandRobertBor2008
Chapter1©SarahCorrie,NicolaHurtonandDavid Chapter8©PeterJenkins2008
A.Lane2008 Chapter9©ChristineWilding,GladeanaMcMahon
Chapter2©DavidG.PurvesandNehaPandit2008 andStephenPalmer2008
Chapter3©BerniCurwenandPeterRuddell2008 Chapter10©RoyMoodleyandDinaLubin2008
Chapter4©RobertBor2008 Chapter11©AnnetteFillery-TravisandDavidA.
Chapter5©AlanFranklandandYvonneWalsh Lane2008
2008 Chapter12©DavidWinterandDelLoewenthal
Chapter6©RivaMiller2008 2008
Chapter7©ColinLago2008 Chapter13©KasiaSzymanska2008
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CONTENTS
Theeditors ix
Notesoncontributors xi
Foreword xvi
Preface xvii
Acknowledgements xviii
Introduction 1
StephenPalmerandRobertBor
1 Howtodevelopyourcareerandorganiseyourcontinuing
professionaldevelopment 5
SarahCorrie,NicolaHurtonandDavidA.Lane
2 Howtogivealectureandruntrainingworkshops 21
DavidG.PurvesandNehaPandit
3 Understandingpsychiatricandmedicalassessments 33
BerniCurwenandPeterRuddell
4 Howtoprepareareportonaclient 50
Appendix4.1:samplereport
RobertBor
5 Howtocommunicateeffectivelywithcolleagues 67
AlanFranklandandYvonneWalsh
6 Frameworkofsupervisionforpractitionersandtrainees 86
RivaMiller
7 Howtomanageacounsellingservice 108
ColinLago
viii CONTENTS
8 Howtoreducetheriskofcomplaintsandlitigation 127
PeterJenkins
9 Howtosetupanddevelopyourprivatepractice 142
ChristineWilding,GladeanaMcMahonandStephenPalmer
10 Developingyourcareertoworkingwithmulticulturaland
diversityclients 156
RoyMoodleyandDinaB.Lubin
11 Howtodevelopyourresearchinterests 176
AnnetteFillery-TravisandDavidA.Lane
12 Howtowriteforpublication 193
DavidWinterandDelLoewenthal
13 Stressandburnout 209
KasiaSzymanska
AppendixA:Suggestedfurtherreading 220
AppendixB:Usefulorganisations 222
Index 225
THE EDITORS
PROFESSORSTEPHENPALMERPhDCPsycholCSciFBACPFRSA
ProfessorStephenPalmerPhDisFounderDirectoroftheCentreforStress
Management and the Centre for Coaching London. He is an honorary
professor of psychology at City University and director of their Coaching
Psychology Unit and Visiting Professor of Work Based Learning and
StressManagementatNCWBLP,MiddlesexUniversity.HeisaChartered
Psychologist and Chartered Scientist, a UKCP registered psychotherapist
andacertifiedsupervisorofRationalEmotionalBehaviourTherapy.
CurrentlyheisPresidentoftheAssociationforCoaching,HonoraryVice
President of the Institute of Health Promotion and Education, Honorary
Vice President of the International Stress Management Association (UK).
HewasthefirstChairoftheBritishPsychologicalSocietySpecialGroupin
CoachingPsychologyandformerChairoftheScientificAwardsCommittee
of the British Psychological Society’s Division of Counselling Psychology.
HewasanacademicconsultantfortheSurreyPoliceDeepcutInvestigation
FinalReportandwasaspecialistadvisortotheHouseofCommonsDefence
SelectCommitteeontheDutyofCareInquiry2004–2005.
He is the UK Coordinating Editor of International Coaching Psychol-
ogy Review, Editor of International Journal of Health Promotion and
Education,Co-editorofRationalEmotiveBehaviourTherapist,Consultant
Editor of Counselling Psychology Review and The Coaching Psychologist
andformerCo-editoroftheCounsellingPsychologySectionof Psychology
and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice. He has authored
or edited over 30 books, including Introduction to Counselling and
Psychotherapy:TheEssentialGuide(Sage,2000).Thebookseriesheedits
includesStressCounselling (Sage)andBriefTherapies(Sage).
He received the Annual Counselling Psychology Award for outstanding
professionalandscientificcontributiontocounsellingpsychologyinBritain
for 2000 from the British Psychological Society, Division of Counselling
Psychology. In 2004, he received an achievement award from the Associ-
ation for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. His interests include jazz,
astronomy,walking,writingandart.
PROFESSOR ROBERT BOR DPhil CPsychol CSci FBPsS UKCP Reg
FRAeS
Professor Robert Bor is Consultant Lead Clinical Psychologist in the
Medical Specialities Directorate (Infectious Diseases) at the Royal Free