Below is a list of recommended textbooks in counselling and psychology. For your convenience we have included links to purchase these books via Amazon.com. If you are an AIPC student, contact your local Student Support Centre to find out how you can purchase these textbooks at discounted rates.
Theory & Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy
Author: Corey, G
Corey’s current conscientious and student-friendly book shows you how to put eleven key counselling theories into practice and helps you develop the counselling method that’s right for you.
Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions
Authors: Corey, Corey and Callanan
Up-to-date and comprehensive, the authors provide readers with the basis for discovering their own guidelines within the broad limits of professional codes of ethics and divergent theoretical positions.
Fundamentals of Clinical Supervision
Authors: Bernard, J & Goodyear, R
This book offers a review of the clinical supervision field in a way that will be equally useful to the student of supervision and to the supervision practitioner as a professional resource. The authors intended this book to be both scholarly and pragmatic.
Intentional Interviewing & Counselling
Authors: Ivey & Ivey
This book is a modern and comprehensive resource that teaches aspiring and beginning helpers how to conduct effective interviews. The authors’ user-friendly microskills approach has shown students and professionals throughout the world how to develop competence in helping skills.
Theories of Psychotherapy and Counselling – Concepts and Cases
Author: Sharf, R
This book gives you an in-depth understanding of the major theories in counselling & psychotherapy and how they are effectively applied. You’ll find interesting case summaries and therapist-client dialogues that enrich your understanding of each theory’s practical importance to the therapists’ work with clients.
Psychology, Themes and Variations (with Concept Charts)
Authors: Weitin, W
Filled with exciting, current research and practical ways that you can apply psychology to your everyday life. With the “featured studies” found throughout this book, you’ll get a birds-eye view of real psychology research in action.