This book offers a helping hand to trainees wishing to make the transition to the next level in their counselling and psychotherapy training. With wide-ranging content closely aligned to actual practice, this intermediate level text covers the research-informed skills, interventions, processes and issues that students need to know once they''ve covered the basics. It includes:</p><p></p><p>- Specific techniques from different therapeutic orientations</p><p>- How to tailor the skills or approach used to the specific client problem</p><p>- Case conceptualisation and management</p><p>- Therapeutic alliance; establishing and exploring the relationship</p><p>- Ethics</p><p>- Multidisciplinary working</p><p>- How to deal with situations such as silence, crying, and aggression.</p><p></p><p>Integrating cognitive, behavioural, person-centred/experiential and psychodynamic approaches, the author provides research-informed practical instructions on how to deliver therapy and includes extracts fr