Counselling

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Reading list

For a complete list of books recommended by Counselling course tutors, please click here. You can check availability on the Library catalogue.

Gateways to internet resources

Psychiatry Matters - A good site to access diagnosis, treatment and a drug database for mental illness.

Therapy Index - A general counselling and psychotherapy site from the UK containing FAQs, message boards, registered counsellors and general information.

Online journals

Psych Watch - A comprehensive list of journals in the field.

Psychology Today

Athens e-resources

ebrary

Counselling Topics

Addiction

Drugscope - The UK’s leading independent centre of information and expertise on drugs. Our aim is to inform policy development and reduce drug-related harms – to individuals, families and communities.

Behavioural Therapy

Seeking a Therapist - An explanation of the various theoretical approaches to therapy.

Bereavement

Cruse - A charity who provide support and offer information, advice, education and training services to bereaved people and who aim to enable anyone bereaved by death to understand their grief and cope with their loss. Services are free to bereaved people.

Stages of Grief - The four phases and tasks of grief described by Dr Colin Murray-Parkes.

Cognitive Therapy

Cognitive Therapy - A description of cognitive behavioural therapy from the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Egan

Skilled Helper - A detailed description of Egan's three-stage model for solving problems.

General

Counselling & Psychotherapy in Scotland (COSCA) - Scotland's professional body for counselling and psychotherapy, who aim to advance and support all forms of counselling, psychotherapy, and the use of counselling skills.

Counselling - A charity and professional membership organisation who help to link those on low incomes to local counsellors who have opted to provide occasional cost-free or discounted face-to-face counselling.

Counselling Books - A counselling and psychotherapy research bibliography.

Dangerous Behaviour - Website of IMPACT Training & Consultation Limited who specialise in delivering training courses in dealing with difficult and dangerous behaviour. The site also contains a news feed and further information on a wide range of issues on the mental health spectrum.

PCCS Books - A small publishing company specialising in books on counselling and psychotherapy with a focus on the person-centred approach and critical psychology.

Groupwork

Kurt Lewin: Groups, experiential learning & action research - A detailed webpage outlining Lewin's theories of group dynamics.

Group Development & Group Action - Online extract from an educational psychology course.

Humanistic Therapies

PCT Glasgow - Website for a local counselling centre who specialise in person-centred therapy.

WAPCEPC - Website for the World Association for Person Centered & Experiential Psychotherapy & Counselling. Includes information about person-centered and experiential psychotherapies and how to become a member of the organisation.

Psychodynamic Therapy

Sigmund Freud - A selection of links from the Yahoo search engine.

Freud Museum - The Freud Museum in Hampstead was the home of Sigmund Freud and his family when they escaped Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938. Its central function is to celebrate the life and work of Sigmund and Anna Freud.

Psychoanalysis Arena - A publishing website that gives information about new titles in the field.

Research

BACP Research - Research department attached to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Plays an important role in BACP’s commitment, as a learned society, to develop, support, promote/publicise and encourage research.

Key Organisations

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) - The largest and broadest body within the sector. Through its work BACP ensures that it meets its remit of public protection whilst also developing and informing its members.

Counselling & Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body - A UK awarding body that is managed by professional counsellors, trainers and supervisors. The only awarding body in Europe to specialise in the field of counselling.