Key Concepts in Counselling and Psychotherapy: A Critical A‐Z guide to Theory

Mental disorders and disabilities are very widespread, forming a large part of almost any clinician's case‐load. They are widely stigmatised though, and still have a noticeably low status within the clinical professions: I once overheard a senior registrar in a reputable London hospital saying “Psychiatrists deal with imaginary illnesses. If they turn out to be real, they are dealt with by neurologists”. Psychiatric nurse training too, used to be entirely separate from general nursing, and is still in some ways the Cinderella service. There are, however, a large number of people other than doctors or nurses offering services to the...