Medicalizing Counselling Issues and Tensions /
This book discusses how counselling, a profession known for diverse and innovative practices, has recently been influenced by scientific, marketplace, and administrative developments corresponding with a medicalized focus on psychiatric diagnoses and related evidence-based treatments. Tensions assoc...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2017.
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| Series: | Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Tensions in Medicalizing the Talking ‘Cure’
- 2. Discourses of Counselling and Human Concern
- 3. Human Concerns as Diagnosable Mental Health Disorders
- 4. Legitimizing an Emergent Mental Health ‘Monoculture’?
- 5. Individualizing and Socializing the Mental Health Monoculture
- 6. Medicating and Technologizing our Diagnosable Lives
- 7. Medicalizing Tensions Associated with Administering and Regulating Counselling
- 8. Tensions for Front Line Counsellors?
- 9. Tensions in Training Counsellors?
- 10. Living with Tensions Associated with Medicalizing Counselling.
