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For students, researchers or practitioners wanting a succinct guide to person-centred theory and practice.

Suitable for students of mental health disciplines, psychiatric service users, and carers, this book offers information that you need to make informed choices about a child's diagnosis and treatment. It offers advice on things parents can try themselves, common pitfalls to avoid, and how to find the professionals you need.

Suitable for students of mental health disciplines, psychiatric service users, and carers, this book offers information that you need to make informed choices about psychiatric drugs. It presents practical advice on the right questions to ask if you are prescribed medication for mental health problems and what happens on withdrawal of medication.

We live in a society where people struggle to look death in the eye. This book shows that, if we start talking openly about death, it can change the way we live. It is a collection of stories and images about death, dying and bereavement. People from all walks of life share their experiences and what they have learned from accompanying others.

This is a unique collection of poems written by and for people who have survived our mental health system and the diagnostic process that is used to categorise and treat mental and emotional distress.

Multilingual clients are different from monolingual clients. So writes Beverley Costa at the start of this groundbreaking book which explores the challenges and opportunities that working multilingually can bring to the therapeutic relationship.

In this latest addition to the best-selling 'Primers in Counselling' series, one of UK's foremost therapy authors outlines the why, what and how of single-session counselling and the evidence that supports it.

In 2017 the global #MeToo movement burst through the conspiracy of silence around women's experience of sexual abuse and violence. Now this ground-breaking book provides a space for counsellors and psychotherapists - more often the listeners - to tell their own stories, sometimes for the first time.

Person-Centred Practice, the journal of the British Association for the Person-Centred Approach (BAPCA), was established in 1993 and published twice a year until 2004. With all but the latest issues out of print but in demand, PCCS Books published this selection of over thirty papers.

Learning and Being in Person-Centred Counselling has inspired and guided thousands of counselling students since it was first published in 1999. This third edition has been updated, with a new chapter on recent developments, by Sheila Haugh.

This hard-hitting book draws on academic theories and analyses of power and the author's personal experience to critique power within the psychotherapeutic relationship and within the organisations where therapy takes place. This revised 2nd edition extends the discussion to the more recent challenges presented by the IAPT programme.

Do you still need your psychiatric diagnosis. If the authors of the diagnostic manuals are admitting that psychiatric diagnoses are not supported by evidence, then no one should be forced to accept them. This book is about giving health professionals, service-users and carers the information they need to decide for themselves.

It is sobering to think that this book, ground-breaking in 1996, still stands practically alone in looking at class, politics and counselling. This book has received unequivocally enthusiastic reviews in a wide range of journals. Many counsellor-educators have put it on their 'essential reading' list. Put it on yours now.

Looks at the related demands for audit and 'evidence-based practice' as they increasingly encroach into the field of psychotherapy. Contributors are not necessarily against the notions of 'audit' and 'accountability' but rather concerned that the tools imposed do not relate to, nor help reflect the nature of, psychotherapeutic practice.

The Philadelphia Association has been providing asylum for over 40 years. People diagnosed as 'mentally ill' have found in PA houses a haven where they can recover, in their own time and their own way, free from the well-meaning interventions of psychiatry or family. Little has been written about this radical movement until now.

John K Wood was a leading theoretician and practioner of the person-centered approach. This book presents a collection of his best and most inspiring papers. Suitable for practitioners, lecturers and students of counselling and psychotherapy.

Self-actualization stresses the links between humanistic approaches, systems, 'old' holistic and dynamical thinking in psychology and 'modern' systems thinking in the natural sciences. This book aims to provide the reader with thoughts, ideas, metaphors and knowledge which are adequate to understand the processes of life and our soul.

Describes the basic principles of the Person-Centred Approach for those who care for, and work with, people in need of care in large and small homes, institutions and schools.

Part of "The Counselling Primer Series", this title offers an overview for students and practitioners. It is useful as a comparative essay resource, with referencing for further reading.

This book showcases pioneering projects that offer user-centred, non-medical, context- and trauma-informed ways of helping people in mental distress. Some are located inside mainstream services; others see their separation from the mainstream as essential in order to practise according to their principles and to influence by example, from outside.

What gets in the way of our understanding other people? So asks psychologist Brian Levitt in this challenging and reflective book questioning much that is taken for granted in his profession.

This book takes the themes, energy and passions of the 'A Disorder for Everyone!' events - bringing together many of the event speakers with others who have stories to tell and messages to share in the struggle to challenge psychiatric diagnosis.

The environment is not the backdrop; it is woven through our identity.' So writes Chris Rose in her introduction to this insightful collection on the mutually enriching relationship possible between psychogeography and psychotherapy.

Inside Adoption is written by someone who has both worked within the adoption `industry' and is an adoptive parent himself. This is the story of the difficult and traumatising years that followed the author's adoption of a young girl, as they struggled to provide a loving home around their emotionally volatile and often violent adoptive daughter.

To what extent can the UK government's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies system of care - driven by psychiatric diagnosis, fast through-put and quick-win `outcomes' - really provide a solution to Britain's growing mental health crisis?

This collection of essays presents a powerful critique of the contemporary discourse of work as a moral necessity, good for our national economy and good for our mental and physical health.

Each of the contributors describes a specific innovation in theory, and then brings this to life in an account of their engagement with a specific client. Every chapter concludes with a `Question and Answer' section in which the author reflects on the significance of their work in dialogue with the editor.

Mental health nursing has achieved its ambition to be `a profession in its own right'. But it has failed to find its own voice and identity or to challenge the culture and practices within mainstream mental health services. It has failed above all to subject itself to its own critical scrutiny.

A new, updated edition of our best-selling critical analysis of the dominance of CBT in psychological therapy services

Describes groups, courses and projects that have been recognised nationally for their innovation and their importance as different ways to provide psychological services, combat stigma, bring people together, understand and escape toxic environments and to bring about service user involvement that provides real benefits.