Medicalizing Counselling Issues and Tensions /

• Main Author: Strong, Tom (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychopharmacology.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Critical psychology.; Critical Psychology.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Consulting, Supervision and Coaching.; Popular Science in Psychology.

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...