<strong>Four Approaches to Counselling and Psychotherapy</strong> provides an essentialintroduction to and overview of the main therapeutic approaches used inps... » 

Four Approaches to Counselling and Psychotherapy provides an essentialintroduction to and overview of the main therapeutic approaches used inpsychotherapy and counselling today. Written clearly and concisely it willhave international appeal as an ideal introductory text for all those embarkingon psychotherapy and counselling courses.Windy Dryden and Jill Mytton trace the development of counselling andpsychotherapy examining the relationship between the two. They consider thefour main models of psychotherapypsychodynamic humanistic integrative andcognitivebehavioralbefore focusing on the most popular approach from eachincluding personcentered rational emotive behavioral and multimodal. Eachapproach is clearly examined in terms of its historical context anddevelopment its main theoretical concepts and its aims.The final chapter offers a comparison of these approaches with the examinationof a case vignette from the point of view of each approach by four wellknowntherapists. «