Personal and Professional Development for Counsellors
- Paul Wilkins - Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Counselling and Psychotherapy (General)
A useful text to support students in understanding the importance of personal and professional development
Wilkins explains the reasoning behind Personal and Professional Development for trainees and qualified counsellors alike. In my experience this is a common question throughout the training.
Although the book is well written and structure it lack practical guidelines on how to implement much of the theory. It is a useful book it terms of perhaps mental health and wellbeing, but fell short for the purposes of ‘Personal Development Plans’ (PDP) now being rolled out across the UK in Higher Educational Institutions and other tertiary education.