Product Description: Written by a team of leading trainers, practitioners and supervisors, this bestselling book provides all the help and advice you'll need as you start and progress through your training in counseling and psychotherapy. It will also be an essential resource as you go on to take your first steps into therapeutic practice...read more

Product Description: This compact guide offers the trainee and beginning practitioner all the hands-on advice and support they could wish for in successfully planning, setting up and running their own practice. Written by two leading authors and practitioners, it is packed with strategies and advice about what to consider and how best to play to one's strengths...read more

Product Description: This title was Highly Commended (Basis of Medicine category) in the BMA Awards 2005. A highly practical account of communication for medical students, backed up with numerous case histories. In addition to the clinical interview the book covers other aspects of communication including how to promote healthy behaviour and the need for the doctor to work as part of the health care team...read more

Product Description: This solution-focused guide shows how to provide effective counselling with clients who are physically ill. Combining theory, real life examples and evidence-based approaches, the authors draw on their own experience to offer invaluable advice on highly complex and sensitive issues...read more

Product Description: This book provides an authoritative and practical guide to the assessment, management, treatment and care of pilots and other professional groups within aviation; covering a range of relevant topics, for health and human resources practitioners working in the airline industry...read more

Product Description: Fear of flying is a perennial problem among both passengers and airline crews and recent terrorist attacks have heightened the levels of anxiety when boarding a plane. In this volume, one of Britain’s leading aviation psychologists, Robert Bor, examines passenger behaviour when faced with anxiety towards flying; the mental health of pilots; and the possible treatments for people suffering from fear of flying...read more

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Product Description: `This book will be of use to counsellors seeking to develop existing skills in school settings. The authors present clear descriptions of various counselling skills, and practical ideas around working with secondary aged pupils' - Education Psychology in Practice `Robert Bor and his colleagues have produced a book which will be of great value both to professional counsellors and to practising school teachers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This highly practical and informative book is designed for all who are considering training in counselling, counselling psychology or psychotherapy. To secure work within these increasingly professional and competitive fields, candidates need to have the appropriate training and qualifications. While theoretically and in practice the professional groups have much in common, each has its own distinct training routes and qualifications, which can be confusing for the newcomer. A Beginners Guide to Training in Counselling and Psychotherapy sets out clearly the range of options for trainees including the professional pathways and main theoretical models available to them. Drawing on their vast experience as trainers, pra (view table of contents)

Product Description: `Useful for the insights about introducing a new service into the general practice environment' - Family Practice Counselling practitioners in primary care settings have unique circumstances to contend with. This book offers practical guidance for managing the issues these counsellors face, exploring the complex dynamics of health care teams and providing a guide to the safe and effective practice of counselling in primary health care contexts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

`This is the book I was looking for before, during and after training. It provides clarity and... it enables trainee and new practitioner alike to draw boundaries around how much is necessary to know at any given time, and helps individuals prioritize in a way that doesn't overwhelm. The chapters are accessible, clear and compact.... The unity in the book is remarkable and is a tribute to Bor and Watts.... They state in their introduction that it was written in response to trainees' questions, and, for myself, the time wasted not knowing where to look or who or what to ask could have been very well served by this timely edition' - Counselling News This comprehensive overview and supportive guide to the practic (view table of contents)

Product Description: The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia is the authoritative single-volume reference work on people, both living and dead. In addition to its thousand or more pages of A-Z entries, the book offers an invaluable Ready Reference section with lists of political leaders and rulers, Nobel Prizewinners, patron saints, sports champions and many more...read more

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Product Description: AIDS is not solely a medical issue: it also has profound implications for social and family relationships. 'This is the first book to address the issue of how AIDS and HIV affect the family and it draws on the work of experienced counsellors, researchers and practitioners world-wide...read more