Medicalizing Counselling: Issues and Tensions

Author:   Tom Strong
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
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9783319859767


Pages:   261
Publication Date:   10 August 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Tom Strong
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783319859767


ISBN 10:   3319859765
Pages:   261
Publication Date:   10 August 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Tensions in Medicalizing the Talking ‘Cure’.- 2. Discourses of Counselling and Human Concern.- 3. Human Concerns as Diagnosable Mental Health Disorders.- 4. Legitimizing an Emergent Mental Health ‘Monoculture’?.- 5. Individualizing and Socializing the Mental Health Monoculture.- 6. Medicating and Technologizing our Diagnosable Lives.- 7. Medicalizing Tensions Associated with Administering and Regulating Counselling.- 8. Tensions for Front Line Counsellors?.- 9. Tensions in Training Counsellors?.- 10. Living with Tensions Associated with Medicalizing Counselling.

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Tom Strong is a professor, couple and family therapist, and counsellor-educator at the University of Calgary, Canada. He researches and writes on the collaborative, critically-informed and practical potentials of discursive approaches to psychotherapy. 

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