Therapy and Beyond

Therapy and Beyond: Counselling Psychology Contributions to Therapeutic and Social Issues presents an overview of the origins, current practices, and potential future of the discipline of counselling psychology. 

• Presents an up-to-date review of the knowledge base behind the discipline of counselling psychology that addresses the notion of human wellbeing and critiques the concept of ‘psychopathology’
• Includes an assessment of the contributions that counselling psychology makes to understanding people as individuals, in their working lives, and in wider social domains
• Offers an overview of counselling psychology''s contributions beyond the consulting room, including practices in the domain of spirituality, the arts and creative media, and the environmental movement
• Critiques contemporary challenges facing research as well as the role that research methods have in responding to questions about humanity and individual experience