Introduction
Creating Counselling and Therapy Approaches
Psychodynamic Therapies
Freud’s Psychoanalysis
Jung’s Analytical Therapy
Humanistic-Existential Therapies
Person-Centred Therapy
Gestalt Therapy
Transactional Analysis
Existential Therapy
Cognitive Behaviour Therapies
Behaviour Therapy
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
Cognitive Therapy
Multimodal Therapy
Recent Therapies
Solution-Focused Therapy
Narrative Therapy
Positive Therapy
Mindfulness in Therapy
Culture and Gender Therapies
Multicultural Therapy
Gender Therapy
Concluding Comments
Evaluation, Eclecticism and Integration
Richard Nelson-Jones was born in London in 1936. Having spent five
years in California as a Second World War refugee, he returned in
the 1960s to obtain a Masters and Ph.D from Stanford University. In
1970, he was appointed a lecturer in the Department of Education at
the University of Aston to establish a Diploma in Counselling in
Educational Settings, which started enrolling students in 1971.
During the 1970s, he was helped by having three Fulbright
Professors from the United States, each for a year, who both taught
students and improved his skills. During this period he broadened
out from a predominantly client-centred orientation to becoming
much more cognitive-behavioural. He also wrote numerous articles
and the first edition of what is now The Theory and Practice of
Counselling and Therapy, which was published in 1982. In addition,
he chaired the British Psychological Society′s Working Party on
Counselling and, in1982, became the first chairperson of the BPS
Counselling Psychology Section.
In 1984, he took up a position as a counselling and later
counselling psychology trainer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology, where he became an Associate Professor. He continued
writing research articles, articles on professional issues and
books, which were published in London and Sydney. As when he worked
at Aston University, he also counselled clients to keep up his
skills. In 1997, he retired from RMIT and moved to Chiang Mai in
Thailand. There, as well as doing some counselling and teaching, he
has continued as an author of counselling and counselling
psychology textbooks. A British and Australian citizen, he now
divides his time between Chiang Mai and London and regularly visits
Australia.
The new edition retains the original clarity of writing and
refreshing experience-near qualities which made it stand out
from its competitors, and has been updated in light of new
research findings in relation to problems of living in an
information-age. It is an excellent resource for trainees and
educators both.
*Jim McLennan*
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