Main description:

It is only in the last two or three decades that the medical model has come to dominate psychological theory and practice. This book considers the evidence that points us towards freeing ourselves from this creeping medicalisation and recognising the influence of our environments and circumstances on our psychological wellbeing. Contributors from a range of modalities illustrate how to practise in a demedicalised way. Drawing on these examples from the field and perspectives from different theoretical models, the book demonstrates that an approach freed from the medical model provides the ethically axiomatic framework for psychological practice today.

Contents:

Introduction - Pete Sanders and Janet Tolan. Section 1: Why demedicalised counselling and psychotherapy?, 1. The history of medicalisation of counselling and psychotherapy - Janet Tolan and Pete Sanders, 2. Challenging the medicalisation of psychological disorders - Richard Bentall. Section 2: Demedicalised counselling and psychotherapy, 3. A demedicalised approach to psychodynamic therapy - Suzanne Martin, 4. A demedicalised approach to person-centred therapy - Pete Sanders, 5. A demedicalised approach to cognitive behavioural psychotherapy - James Binnie, 6. Demedicalised integrative therapy - Garthine Walker, 7. The power threat meaning framework and de-medicalising counselling and psychotherapy - Jo Watson, 8. A non-medical approach to therapy with people who hear voices - Kirshen Rundle, 9. Incorporating demedicalised therapy into training and continuing professional development - Rachel Freeth. Section 3: Inappropriately medicalised and over-medicalised groups, 10. Demedicalised counselling and psychotherapy with children and young people - Ani de la Prida, 11. Demedicalising disability in counselling and psychotherapy practice - Chris Coombs, 12. Demedicalised counselling and psychotherapy with gender, sexual and relationship diversity - Paula J. Williams, 13. Demedicalised counselling and psychotherapy and the racist overmedicalisation of people in Black diaspora - Sarah Henry, 14. Demedicalised counselling and psychotherapy with women diagnosed with 'borderline personality disorder' - Gillian Proctor. Section 4: Demedicalised counselling and psychotherapy services, 15. The Mavam Group - Matthew Morris, 16. The Market Place - Lisa Norfolk, 17. Women and Girls Network - Akima Thomas. Contributors' biographies. Name index. Subject index.