Announcing
PROBLEM DRINKING:
a person-centred dialogue
Richard Bryant-Jefferies
January 2003
192 pages (approx)
ISBN 1 85775 929
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paperback £19.95
Counsellors, psychotherapists and other health and social care professionals
are frequently faced with clients who have developed a problematic relationship
with alcohol. The counsellor working in primary care, the nurse in a busy
Accident and Emergency Department, the social worker concerned with a family,
the housing support worker, they can all expect to encounter people with alcohol
problems. There is a growing need for a wider understanding of the issues to be
addressed and ways of working with this client group.
This book provides a new realism in understanding the world of alcohol
counselling. It uses fictitious dialogue as a method to enable the reader to
appreciate the nature of counselling a person with an alcohol problem through
the application of person-centred counselling theory. It provides deep insights
into what goes on in counselling sessions, into th counselling relationship and
how this links into the counsellor's own supervision. It is essential reading
for all counselling trainers, supervisors and trainees, and for novice and
experienced counsellors. It also provides useful approaches and frameworks for
other caring professions, and many valuable insights for clients
themselves.
"This is the first book to offer a meticulously detailed exploration
of a complete therapeutic process with a problem drinker. The intention of
Radcliffe's new Living Therapy series is to enable the reader to enter
imaginatively into therapeutic processes and thereby to acquire an experiential
knowledge that can seldom be obtained through the more conventional text-book.
This book succeeds impressively in this aim and should have a ready readership
among not only person-cntred trainers and trainees but also among therapists and
professionals of other orientations. Those who themselves experience
difficulties with alcohol may use it either as an adjunct to therapy or as a
client self-help manual. This book deserves to be widely
read."Professor Brian Thorne, Emeritus Professor of Counselling,
University of East Anglia and Co-founder of The Norwich Centre, in his Foreword
"This book is full of useful information for those working with
alcohol problems, on when and how to discuss drinking patterns and on how to
convey information on alcohol and its effects."Alistair Sutherland,
Director, Drug and Alcohol Services, South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust,
in his Foreword
"This tremendous contribution to professionals working nin the
addiction field is bound to have an effect in decreasing the stigma towards
individuals with alcohol problems by the examples and problems so well described
by the author in this book. A 'must read' for all professionals counselling
persons with alcohol problems!"Dana Murphy Parker, Professor of
Nursing, Arizona Western College USA and Chair of the Education Committee for
the International Nurses Society on Addictions
CONTENTS: Introduction * Session 1: Wednesday morning, 11 October *
Supervision 1: Thursday afternoon, 12 October * Session 2: Wednesday morning, 18
October * Session 3: Wednesday morning, 25 October * Session 4: Wednesday
morning, 1 November * Supervision 2: Friday afternoon, 3 November * Session 5:
Wednesday morning, 8 November * Session 6: Wednesday morning, 15 November *
Session 7: Wednesday morning, 2 November * Supervision 3: Friday afternoon, 24
November * Session 8: Wednesday morning, 29 November * Session 9: Wednesday
morning, 6 December * Session 10: Wednesday morning, 20 December * Supervision
4: Friday afternoon, 22 December * Session 11: Wednesday morning, 3 January *
Session 12: Wednesday morning, 17 January * Final reflection * Reference *
Further Reading * Useful Organisations * Index
To order your copy, contact 07930 163173 or email: richard@bryant-jefferies.fsnet.co.uk
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