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This third edition of a seminal text reflects new developments with counselling psychology. In six sections, it covers areas such as neuroscience, narrative approaches and post-modernist thinking. New chapters include:

 

- the nature of evidence

 

- interpreting case material

 

- attachment thoery and neuroscience

 

- community psychology

 

- legal frameworks

 

- testing measurement and diagnosis

 

- the interface between psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic approaches.

 

Special attention has been paid to the research evidence, current issues and debates, theoretical and philosophical underpinnings, political and resource issues and illustrative case material.

 

The handbook is an essential companion for students and practitioners in the field of counselling psychology, at all stages of their careeer and across the whole range of settings- NHS, education, private and voluntary.