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Reading List

 

 

Module 1 Introduction to Helping Skills

 

Essential

Intimacy & Solitude – Stephanie Dowrick

 

Recommended

On Becoming a Person – Carl Rogers

Trans-cultural Counselling in Action – Patricia D’Ardennes & Aruna Mahitani

Counselling Young People – Ellen Noonan

Anti-Discriminatory Practice – Neil Thompson

The Reflective Practitioner – Donald A Schön

Parenting In Practice Series - Various

The Little Red Book of Groups – Gaie Houston

 

Fiction

The Bone People – Keri Hulme

Philip Pullman – His Dark Materials

 

 

Module 2 Theoretical Approaches

 

Essential

The Theory and Practice of Counselling - R Nelson-Jones (1982) Cassell

Dryden’s Handbook of Individual Therapy - Windy Dryden (ed) (5th edition 2007) Sage

 

Recommended

Theories of Counselling and Psychotherapy - C H Patterson, Harper Collins

Counselling the Culturally Different: Theory and Practice - D W Sue & D Sue, J Wiley & Son

On Becoming a Person - Carl Rogers, Constable

Mental Slavery - Barbarar Fletchman-Smith, Karnac Books

Attachment Theory (Makers of Modern Psychotherapy) - Jeremy Holmes and John Boulby, Routledge Attachment and Loss – Attachment Volume 1 - John Boulby, Pimlico

 

 

Module 3 Group Work

 

Essential

A handbook of Common Groupwork Problems – T Douglas

The facilitators Handbook – J Heron Groups in Schools – P. Kutnick & C Rogers

Understanding and Using Groups – B Vernell

 

Recommended

Groupwork Practice – T Douglas Groups: Understanding People

Gathered Together – T Douglas

The Red Book of Groups and How to Lead Better – G Houston

 

 

Module 4 Non-Oppressive Practice

 

Reading List

 

Gyn/Ecology The Metaethics of Radical Feminism - Daily, M. (1978) The Woman’s Press

Transcultural Counselling and In-action - D’ardenne, P. Mahtani, A. (1999) Sage Publications

Wretched of the Earth - Fanon, F. (1963) Penguin Books

Pedagogy of the Oppressed Continuum - Friere, P. (1972) International Publishing Group

Counselling the Culturally Different - Sue, D. W. and Sue, D. (1999) Wiley Publications

Anti Discriminatory Practice - Thompson, N. (2001) British Association of Social Workers

Complexity Relationships and Strange Loops Reflexive Practice Guide Oliver, C. Herasymowych, M. Senko, H. (2003)

 

 

Module 5 Inter-disciplinary & Multi-skilled Practice

 

Reading List

 

Educating the Reflective Practitioner - Schon, D.A. (1987) Josey-Bass Publishing

Tacit Knowledge in Organisations - Baunard, P. (1999)

Social Capital and Mental Health - McKenzie, K. and Harpham, T. (2006) Jessica Kingsley Publishers

 

 

Module 6 Application of Theory into Practice

 

Reading List

 

Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming - Richard Brandler and  John Grinder (1990)

A Theory of Personality: Psychology of Personal Constructs (The Norton Library) - GA Kelly (1963)

Theory and Practice of Counselling and Psychotherapy - Gerald Corey (2008)

Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships - Eric Berne (1996)

Social Capital and Mental Health - Richard G Wilkinson, Kwame McKenzie, and Trudy Harpham (2006)

The Gestalt Approach and Eye Witness to Therapy – Fritz Perls (1989)

Talking about Death – EA Grollman (1990)

Good Grief: Talking about Learning about Loss and Death with Under 11’s – Wardd B and Associates (1988)

Good Grief: Talking about Learning about Loss and Death with Over11’s – Wardd B and Associates (1989)