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November, 2015 | SAGE Publications Ltd

The Handbook of Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy


Mick Cooper
- University of Roehampton, UK
Windy Dryden
376 pages | November, 2015 | SAGE Publications Ltd
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A practical resource that your students can return to again and again to guide and coordinate their pluralistic practice, it provides:

  • Hands-on guidance to developing pluralistic practice: providing the tools, skills and practice frameworks
  • A step-by-step understanding of how the ideas and methods of different orientations can contribute towards a pluralistic way of working
  • The tools and understandings needed to work with clients to achieve the most common goals
  • The tools and understandings needed to work with clients wishing to address particular issues such as depression, anxiety, addiction, health issues, suicidal thoughts
  • An understanding of a range of professional and practice issues relevant to pluralistic practitioners.

Each chapter offers definitions of key terms, several case studies, exercises and points for reflection, further reading, chapter introductions and summaries of key learning points, and overviews of relevant research.

Introduction to pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy
PART 1: Fundamentals
Assessment and formulation in pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy
From goals to tasks and methods
Metatherapeutic communication and shared decision-making
Systematic feedback through the Partners for Change Outcome Management System (PCOMS)
Client strengths and resources: Helping clients draw on what they already do best
Core counselling methods for pluralistic practice
Part 2: Therapeutic orientations
Humanistic approaches and pluralism
Cognitive behavioural approaches and pluralism
Psychodynamic approaches and pluralism
Existential approaches and pluralism
Narrative approaches and pluralism
Integrative and eclectic approaches and pluralism
Part 3: Issues and Goals
Helping clients address depression
Helping clients address problematic anxiety
Helping clients improve their interpersonal relationships
Helping clients find meaning in grief and loss
Helping clients address addictive behaviours
Helping clients address eating problems
Helping clients with health issues
Helping clients who are suicidal or self-injuring
Part 4: Professional issues
Difference and diversity in pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy
Boundaries: A pluralistic perspective and illustrative case study of the patient-led approach to appointment scheduling
Ethics in pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy
Supervision in pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy
Training in pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy
Research and pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy