Medicalizing Counselling Issues and Tensions

Medicalizing Counselling Issues and Tensions / by Tom Strong.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strong, Tom (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Critical psychology.
Psychotherapy.
Counseling.
Supervision.
Psychology.
Psychopharmacology.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
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.

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