This fourth edition provides the most comprehensive guide to the field of counselling psychology, exploring a range of theories and philosophical underpinnings, practice approaches and contexts, and professional issues. It has been updated to reflect current issues and debates and to map onto the training standards, and offers the ultimate companion for your journey through counselling psychology training and into the workplace.

Situating counselling psychology. mapping the world of helping : the place of counselling psychology / Ray Woolfe -- Science, craft and professional values / Sheelagh Strawbridge -- Setting out on the journey. Designing your life map / Leonie Sugarman -- Becoming a reflective practitioner / Mark Donati -- Engaging with academia and training programmes / Victoria E. Galbraith -- Entering clinical placements / Jane Lawrence -- Becoming a supervisee / Paul Hitchings -- Engaging with research / Isabel Henton -- Finding your way. Conceptualising in client work / Barbara Douglas -- Diagnosis and formulation in medical contexts / David Pilgrim -- Forming a relationship : a phenomenological encounter / Martin Milton -- Working with difference and diversity / Simon Parritt -- Developing self-care and resilience / Victoria E. Galbraith -- Carrying out research / Elaine Kasket -- Towards ethical maturity in counselling psychology / Elisabeth Shaw and Michael Carroll -- The interface between psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic approaches / Diane Hammersley.

Encountering the landscape. Person-centred therapy in the twenty-first century : growth and development / Andrew Hill and Mick Cooper -- The evolving world of cognitive and mindfulness-based interventions / Diana Sanders -- Psychodynamic interpersonal model : a perfect fit for counselling psychology? / Sarah Bartlett -- The practice of therapeutic letter writing in narrative therapy / Anja Bjoroy, Stephen Madigan and David Nylund -- Neuropsychology and counselling psychology / Hamilton Fairfax -- Community psychology and the counselling psychologist / Paul Maloney -- Psychological practice in a time of environmental crisis : counselling psychology and ecopsychology / Martin Milton.

Different territories. Counselling psychology and its international dimensions / Pamela James -- Therapeutic work with children / Gail Sinitsky -- Counselling psychology in educational settings / Dee Danchev -- Counselling psychology in organisations : from problem fixing to emergence and growth / David A. Lane -- Working as a counselling psychologist in forensic contexts / Clive Sims -- Journeying through physical health / Rachel Davies -- Working as a counselling psychologist in primary care / Garrett Kennedy and Yesim Arikut-Treece -- The role of counselling psychology in secondary adult mental health care / Hamilton Fairfax -- Research : from consumer to producer / Terry Hanley, Edith Steffen and Denis O'Hara -- Becoming a guide. The transition from trainee to qualified counselling psychologist / Lewis J. Blair -- Leading and managing / Nicola Gale -- Becoming a supervisor / Ray Woolfe -- Becoming a trainer / Stelios Gkouskos -- Becoming an entrepreneur-practitioner / Caroline Vermes -- Researching across the career span / Elaine Kasket -- Concluding editorial.