Main description:

Pluralistic Therapy: Distinctive Features offers an introduction to what is distinctive about this increasingly popular method. Written by one of the co-founders of pluralistic therapy, and a leading UK figure in counselling and psychotherapy, this book describes 15 theoretical features and 15 practical techniques for practitioners. Pluralistic therapy is a flexible, integrative approach to counselling and psychotherapy, which has also found applications in fields such as mental health, life coaching and careers guidance.

Pluralistic Therapy: Distinctive Features will provide an essential guide to students and practitioners of psychotherapy, or an allied area of practice, who are open to learning about new ideas and techniques from current interdisciplinary research.

Contents:

Introduction

Distinctive theoretical/conceptual features of pluralistic therapy

A brief summary of how pluralistic therapy works

Pluralism

Theory

Context

Ways of knowing

Care

Evidence

Design

Purpose

Collaboration

Dialogue

Preference

Deciding

Method

Understanding
Distinctive aspects of the practice of pluralistic therapy

Beginning

Therapist style

The menu

Metacommunication

The bigger picture

Collaborative case formulation

Goals

Tasks

Feedback

Cultural resources

Space

Trying things out

Persistence

Supervision

Ending