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The book seller which formerly existed here at CounsellingBooks.com was shuttered in May of last year, and in January 2008 the site came under new ownership. Now a member of the same family of sites which includes CounsellingResource.com, the new look and feel is part of a wide-sweeping set of changes intended to bring a whole new set of useful features and material to the site.

We've revamped our well-known counselling and psychotherapy research bibliography and moved it here -- where you'll find hundreds of counselling books and articles in a newly reorganised hierarchy designed to help you find what you're after as quickly as possible.

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Recent Counselling and Therapy Book Reviews

Helping Adolescents at Risk: Prevention of Multiple Problem Behaviors

This is a rigorous scholarly text dedicated to a very real social problem, and it does try to identify successful and unsuccessful community and state-wide attempts to prevent or reduce youth problems. It doesn't pretend to be a self-help book or parenting manual, or indeed a profound philosophical or political analysis...
Berg and Szabo on Brief Coaching

This book is a good ready-to-go manual for the new or busy coach looking for new ideas or reinforcement of practice enthusiasm. Whether it lives up to its promise of providing lasting solutions is something that only time and longitudinal research studies can tell...
Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology

At a time when Complementary and Alternative Therapies have (again) been under fire from some university scientists for falsely claiming scientific status, and in an era of evidence-based psychotherapy, this book is a key text. It should have a place on all postgraduate counselling and psychotherapy courses, but I suspect it will not be so readily accommodated...
Boss on Trauma and Ambiguous Loss

Comprehensive, clear and well referenced, this guide to the theory and practice of dealing with ambiguous loss — loss without closure — provides a realistic hope, not that we will “get over it”, but that it is possible to live with the uncertainty and the unknown...