Reflective Writing in Counselling and Psychotherapy

Neuausgabe 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85702-327-8
Verlag: PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Have you been asked to keep a personal development portfolio or reflective journal? Are you struggling to know where to start, how to write or what to include? If the answer is 'yes', this book will provide you with a straightforward route in, telling you all you need to know about writing reflectively for your own personal and professional development.

Offering staged exercises, case-studies, examples and ideas for self-directed learning, this book will lead the reader along an exciting journey of written self-awareness, covering:

- the background - what exactly is reflective writing and why is it important

- the decisions - when and how to start
- the practicalities - the essentials of writing reflectively

- the stumbling blocks - dealing with obstacles and difficulties

- the long haul - maintaining reflective enquiry as a lifelong habit

This book is an essential how-to guide appropriate for all undergraduate and postgraduate trainees, whether they are approaching the topic from a psychodynamic, person-centred or CBT perspective. It will give trainees all the tools they need to become mature reflective practitioners.

Jeannie Wright Director of Counselling and Psychotherapy Programmes at Warwick University.

Gillie Bolton is a Freelance consultant in therapeutic & reflective practice writing and author of the bestselling Reflective Writing, 3rd Edition, SAGE 2010.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wright, Jeannie

Bolton, Gillie E. J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Beratungspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE: MAPS
Preparing for the Journey
Why Take the Journey?
Preparing for the Adventure
Starting out: How to Write Reflectively
Writing to Identify Prejudice
PART TWO: NAVIGATION
With Company or Travelling Alone?
Writing the Past
Here and Now: Writing the Present
Looking back to Look forward: Writing the Future
PART THREE: SIGNPOSTS
Getting Stuck: How to Deal with Blocks, Obstacles and General Difficulties
Supervision, Reflexive and Reflective Writing
Assessment
Arrivals and Continuing the Journey

Über Autor(innen)

Wright, Jeannie
Jeannie Wright PhD is Visiting Professor at the University of Malta. She has been involved in counsellor education for over thirty years and has been writing what she couldn’t say for more years than that. She has developed practice-based research in counselling and writing for therapeutic purposes in seven different universities in the UK,Europe, the South Pacific and most recently at the University of Malta.

She was Associate Professor in Counselling at Massey University in Aotearoa New Zealand while writing the first edition of this book. The second edition is more Maltese in flavour.

Bolton, Gillie E. J.
Dr Gillie Bolton is an international authority on writing and author of a long publication list including nine books (one in 4th Edition), academic papers (many in top ranking journals), as well as professional articles, poetry, and for a lay readership. She has peer-reviewed for many journals and has been a long serving editor of an academic and two professional journals.