COVER; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; AN A-Z OF ORGANISATIONS AND THEIR ACRONYMS; PREFACE; Introduction; Part I The Field: History, Needand Provision; Part II Training Programmes -- Institutional and Placement; Part III The Role Sets and Relationships between Roles in Counselling in Primary Care; Summary; Appendices; INDEX
Summary
The surge of interest in psychological therapies in GP settings makes this book timely and important for the development of this field in the 21st century. As well as the suggested syllabus for training counsellors and psychotherapists (agreed by the Counselling and Psychotherapy Forum for Primary Care), the book deals with much wider issues. Chapters deal with practitioner issues - both student and professional - management issues, and the provision of supervision and mentoring for the new counsellor as well as planning Continuous Professional Development. Chapters dealing with the history of