Reflective Practice and Personal Development in Counselling and Psychotherapy

Sofie Bager-Charleson is a psychotherapist, supervisor and writer. She draws from psychoanalytic, existential and cognitive behavioural theory with a particular interest in postmodern influences on therapy. She holds a PhD from Lund University in Sweden, where she specialised in attachment issues within families and reflective practice amongst teachers. She writes both fiction and non-fiction. She works as the Director of Studies on the MPhil/PhD at Metanoia Institute and Module Leader on the DPsych. She runs workshops and courses in therapeutic practice, reflective and creative writing, in both Sweden and England.

This book seems to be cover a gap in the marked on reflection for psychotherapy. It does not only cover the theory of reflection but offers a number of relevant reflective excercises which an easily be used with students.

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