Personal development and clinical psychology - Jan N Hughes

Personal Development and Clinical Psychology is a vitalreference text for all those involved in clinical psychology andrelated professions. This book offers a comprehensive explorationof the methods, approaches, theories and issues surroundingpersonal development, incorporating a number of different viewsfrom both those practising and training in the field, and includesservice users perspectives. The importance of personaldevelopment is considered and chapters are devoted to presenting amodel of the different processes, examining issues of power andidentity, and assessing how training courses currently approach andencourage personal development and how it might be evaluated. Thebook culminates in summarising the major themes, and offerssuggestions for future developments.

• In line with BPS accreditation criteria which identifiespersonal development as a core learning objective
• Offers an historical overview of the clinical psychologyprofession
• Includes the voices of service users and carers
• Considers how personal development can be assessed
• Also of interest to counselors, psychotherapists, and nursetherapists as well as clinical psychologists and relatedprofessions outside the UK