Common Presenting Issues in Psychotherapeutic Practice
- Barbara Douglas
- Pam James - Liverpool John Moores University, UK
With the support of expert contributors, Pam James and Barbara Douglas help your students to confidently do just that, proving a comprehensive introduction to the theory, research and practice behind a range of common presenting issues. Key issues covered include:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Trauma
- Bipolar disorder
- Psychosis
- Eating disorders
- Borderline personality disorder
This book should be on the desk of every counselling, psychotherapy and counselling psychology trainee, and is recommended reading for other practitioners of health and social care working with these common presenting issues.
Clear and relevant. Excellent for this level of study
Highly relevant and well-written
This is very informative, and practical guidance for social workers, thinking of intervening when there are complex issues of emotional and mental health. This will inform your practice and interventions. This will give a deeper understanding of the processes, specific needs, and which approaches are most helpful and considerations you need to make. A great refresher to update knowledge.
This book provides a useful guide to working with different presenting issues.
I enjoyed this topical and very accessible volume, which I think will appeal to our final year students, who are already engaging in therapeutic practice. It offers clear clinical input, with case study vignettes which help to bring theory to life.
Good range of presenting issues covered, excellent book for completing assignments and good use of case studies throughout
This is quite an intriguing book in that it tries to bring together the medical and nonmedical models in looking at therapeutic approaches to common problems. The chapters are (ironically as acknowledged by the authors) titled according to the medical model. Each chapter then gives some historical context of the condition followed by a section on dilemmas and then a section on research and practice. These sections are usually written by different authors with quite different writing styles. I did get something out of reading this book but I found all the sections for each condition quite fragmented and selective. Having read it, it seemed quite bitty and I didn't feel it had achieved the integrative and holistic picture I was hoping for. On the plus side I felt it helped me understand the \conflict" between the medical and nonmedical models more clearly. Also, despite the fragmentation, it does give a more rounded picture of common presenting issues than the psychopathology books commonly consulted.
This is a good introductory book but it could have done with more details and seemed a bit thin on theory.
This is a very comprehensive book and clearly written for all students.
Good range of presenting issues covered, excellent book for completing assignments and good use of case studies throughout
