Mental Health in Counselling and Psychotherapy

This book examines how counsellors and psychotherapists interact with those clients who may suffer from mental health issues.While practising counsellors and psychotherapists meet clients who have problems across the entire mental health spectrum, there are a number of particular disorders that these practitioners are particularly likely to encounter.These include anxiety, depression, stress, addiction, phobias and behavioural problems.In this book, all of these conditions are explained and the ways in which therapists can best help such clients are discussed.There are sections on client assessments as well as addiction issues and understanding mental health law.