Contracts in Counselling & Psychotherapy
- Charlotte Sills - Metanoia Institute and Ashridge College
Contracts in Counselling & Psychotherapy, Second Edition is a practical guide to an essential area of professional knowledge and skills. Any kind of therapeutic relationship requires an agreement between the practitioner and the client. When contracting with clients practitioners need to consider a whole range of factors including the goals of counseling; the theoretical orientation; brief or open-ended counseling; different personality types; and ethical and legal issues.
Contracts in Counselling and Psychotherapy, Second Edition provides a unique and informative guide to the nature of counseling contracts, why they are needed and how they are made. For the Second Edition, the book has been thoroughly updated to take account of the BACP ethical framework. New chapters have been added covering legal aspects and making contracts with trainees.
Contracts in Counselling & Psychotherapy, Second Edition is an authoritative source of information and practical guidance for trainees and practitioners in Counseling and Psychotherapy.
A comprehensive guide to contracting, this book offers a comprehensive collection of chapters addressing key aspects of the work agreement in the counselling professions. Easy to read, each chapter provides guidance on the fundamental issues to consider in drafting a professional counselling contract, fit for contemporary practice. Useful aspects of Ethics and the Law are highlighted. The modality specific variations accentuate the nuances of contracting of each theory, stressing the importance of setting the frame for clinical work. This book is an essential reading for all trainee counsellors.
Excellent inspiration for practitioners branching out into independent practice
In this book Sills covers the wide range of areas and issues in Contracting in Counselling. It covers differences in both Model and Context, including Trainee Counsellors and Supervision. The book is well structured and easily navigated.
