About the Editor
Professor Stephen Palmer PhD FBACP
Professor Stephen Palmer PhD, is the Founder Director of the Centre of Stress Management and the Centre for Multimodal Therapy, London, England. He is an Honorary Professor of Psychology at City University in the Centre for Health and Counselling Psychology, a Visiting Professor at Middlesex University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. He is a Chartered Psychologist, an accredited REBT and cognitive-behavioural therapist, and a UKCP registered psychotherapist. He is a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, International Stress Management Association, Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of Health. He is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and the Albert Ellis Institute for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy in New York, and a certified supervisor for training in REBT. Currently, he is Past President of the Institute of Health Promotion and Education, Honorary Vice-President of the International Stress Management Association (UK), and Consultant Director of the New Zealand Centre for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. He was Chair of the Scientific Awards Committee of the British Psychological Society Division of Counselling Psychology from 1997 to 1999. He is Co-editor of the Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapist, Editor of the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education and is Associate Editor of the British Journal of Medical Psychology. He is Founder Editor of the publication, The Online Journal of Multimodal and Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. He has authored numerous articles on stress management and counselling, and has authored or edited 20 books and training manuals, the most recent being Dealing with People Problems at Work (1996) with Burton, Stress Management and Counselling (1996) with Dryden, Counselling: The BAC Counselling Reader (1996) with Dainow and Milner, Stress Counselling: A Rational Emotive Behaviour Approach (1997) with Ellis, Gordon and Neenan, the Handbook of Counselling (1997) with McMahon, Integrative Stress Counselling (1998) with Milner, Counselling in a Multicultural Society (1999) with Laungani, Trauma and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (2000) with Scott, Integrative and Eclectic Counselling and Psychotherapy (2000) with Woolfe, and Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy: The Essential Guide (2000). He has lectured in Europe, Japan, New Zealand and China on a range of subjects and regularly appears on radio and television programmes.
He was awarded the Annual Counselling Psychology Award by the British Psychological Society, Division of Counselling Psychology, for his 'outstanding professional and scientific contribution to Counselling Psychology in Britain, 2000'.