| Description |
xiv, 188 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Basic texts in counselling and psychotherapy |
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Basic texts in counselling and psychotherapy.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Thinking About the Unthinkable: a Psychodynamic Model -- The unconscious, repression and conflict -- Transference and countertransference -- Anxiety -- Remembering through repeating -- Interpretation and the 'here-and-now' -- 2. Where Do Relationships Come From? How We Learn to Relate -- Mother-baby relationship: splitting; projection and internalisation; containment -- The role of the father -- Brothers and sisters - Peer relationships -- Personal and sexual identity -- Cultural identity -- 3. The Price of Independence: Separation and Loss -- Separation and loss -- Paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions; defences -- Homesickness -- Early separations -- 4. Families and the Ties that Bind -- Family dynamics -- The needs of the individual and the 'Oedipus complex' -- The needs of the family -- Evolving family structures -- 5. Finding an Identity : the Tasks of Adolescence -- Three stages of adolescence -- 6. Learning and Study Problems -- Learning and the 'epistemophilic instinct' -- Loss of concentration -- Loss of interest and motivation --Work blocks -- Performance anxiety and feelings of inadequacy -- Intellectual understanding and counselling -- Choice of subject -- 7. Breakdown, Self-harm and Suicide -- Psychological breakdown during adolescence -- Suicide -- Self-harming behaviour -- The university setting -- 8. The University Context -- Counselling within universities -- The needs of the student; short-term counselling -- Institutional parameters -- Temporal factors -- Placements -- Examinations -- The 'closed' environment and confidentiality -- The student counsellor |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-185) and index |
| Subject |
Counseling in higher education.
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College students -- Mental health services.
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College students -- Great Britain -- Psychology.
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Counseling in higher education -- Great Britain.
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Psychodynamic psychotherapy.
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College students -- Psychology.
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| Author |
Noonan, Ellen.
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| ISBN |
0333790510 (paperback) |
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