Understanding mental health and counselling / edited by Naomi Moller, [and 3 others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Understanding mental health : the emergence of the talking cure -- The birth of psychiatry: questions of power, control and care -- The service-user movement -- The history of the talking cure -- Diagnosis, classification and the expansion of therapeutic realm -- Presenting problems -- Understanding sadness and worry -- Trauma and crisis -- Relationship and intimacy -- Understanding psychological formulation -- Models of working -- The psychodynamic approach -- Cognitive behavioral therapy -- The humanistic approach -- The pluralistic approach -- Counselling in practice -- The therapeutic relationship -- Beyond the individual -- Beyond face to face : technology-based counselling -- Context of practice: boundaries and ethics -- Contemporary issues: mental health and society -- the politics of research and evidence -- Mental health, criminal justice and the law -- Individual or social problems -- Living in a therapeutic culture.