Sinopsis

This concise and practical guide provides the counsellor with a model for understanding anxiety problems within the total context of the client's life. Adopting an eclectic cognitive and behavioural approach, Richard Hallam avoids the usual tendency to offer prescribed solutions to isolated 'disorders' and instead gives systematic and flexible guidelines for formulation, assessment and intervention. The book shows how to prepare and educate the client, how to negotiate objectives and priorities, and how to design a programme of help through to the termination of the counselling process. The emphasis throughout is on the need to respond flexibly, but with an explicit strategy and specific techniques to reduce anxiety effectively. Based on twenty-five years' experience of working with clinets with anxiety problems, the book makes use of detailed case examples and draws on the theoretical and technical advances in research of which counsellors should be aware. The result is an eminently readable, accessible book, which will be use to all counsellors and students of counselling.