Category: Therapeutic Relationship

Twenty Minutes that Could Save Weeks of Counselling – Elizabeth S. Jones

Elizabeth S. Jones

When coming to counselling, a client naturally focuses on their issue – presenting problem which often has become magnified for them. With Human Social Functioning, whilst the client’s need and focus are respected, the use of the HSSF (the questionnaire), assists both client and counsellor to see the bigger picture: where the client is functioning well in addition to the immediate difficulties that have brought the client to seek help.

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An Introduction to the Therapeutic Relationship in Counselling and Psychotherapy – Stephen Paul & Divine Charura

Stephen Paul

The therapeutic relationship is considered to be the most significant factor in achieving positive therapeutic change. As such, it is essential that trainee and practising therapists are able to facilitate a strong working alliance with each of their clients.

An Introduction to the Therapeutic Relationship in Counselling and Psychotherapy – Stephen Paul & Divine Charura

This book will help them do just that, by offering a practical and evidence-based guide to all aspects of the therapeutic relationship in counselling and psychotherapy. Cross-modal in its approach, this book examines the issues impacting on the therapeutic relationship true to all models of practice.

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Beyond the Frontiers of Person-centred Purism: Pluralism and Experiencing Diversity of Therapeutic Practices – WAPCEPC Online Event with Mick Cooper

Mick Cooper

In recent years, Mick Cooper has been working with John McLeod to develop a ‘pluralistic’ approach to therapy, which Mick has described as a person-centred ‘metatherapeutic’ approach. That is, a person-centred way of thinking about the therapeutic field as a whole.

This dialogue will explore the concept of pluralism and its implications for person-centred theory and practice: introducing research and theory on client preferences, therapeutic goals, and ‘metatherapeutic communication’: talking with clients about the process and focus of therapy.

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