Reflective Practice and Personal Development in Counselling and Psychotherapy [Paperback]

Reflective practice is a vital part of your counselling and psychotherapy training and practice. This book is your go-to introduction to what it is, why it is important, and how to use different models for reflection and reflective practice to enhance your work with clients. It will support your personal development and professional development throughout your counselling training and into your practice.

Go-to introduction to what 'reflective practice' is, why it is important, and how to use different models for reflection and to enhance your work with clients.This book seems to be cover a gap in the marked on reflection for psychotherapy. It does not only cover the theory of reflection but offers a number of relevant reflective excercises which an easily be used with students.Very useful and practical examples and tasks for the classroomCore text for professional level counselling training.This book highlights the importance of deep reflection for effective and ethical clinical practice.
The author highlights the importance of personal history and unconscious processes and urges us to reflect on how these may affect the work we do with clients.
Through the personal experience of the several contributors, the book promotes the exploration into the different aspects of personal and professional development and encourages therapists to consider continuing formal training to further develop both personally and professionally.Reflective practice: An overview
Personal development
Your support and development
Reflecting on relationships
Reflecting on practice with research
Emancipatory knowing
Developments within reflective practice by Biljana van Rijn
Evaluating our practice by Biljana van Rijn
The vulnerable researcher: Harnessing reflexivity for practice-based qualitative inquiry by lso