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- Traces developments and current controversies associated with counselling’s movement toward increased medicalization
- Highlights implications not only for practice, but for society at large
- Offers a critical approach to the tensions currently present in medicalized counselling
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology (PSTHP)
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Book Title: Medicalizing Counselling
Book Subtitle: Issues and Tensions
Authors: Tom Strong
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56699-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56698-6Published: 02 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85976-7Published: 10 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56699-3Published: 18 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-2452
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2460
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 261
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Critical Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Consulting, Supervision and Coaching, Popular Science in Psychology, Psychopharmacology