Martin Payne

Couple Counselling

A Practical Guide

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This practical book outlines the essential principles and practices of couple counselling. Demystifying this form of therapy, the author provides a step-by-step guide from the first meeting through to subsequent sessions. The book includes a wealth of supporting features including case examples, student exercises, points for reflection and memory-jog pages to use in practice. As well as chapters illustrating counselling for problems frequently experienced by couples, such as sexual difficulties, infidelity, violence and abuse, key content includes: - cultural differences in couples work - varieties of committed relationships - responses to specific difficulties - ethical issues that arise as a result of working with two people - gender differences in relation to the counsellor's own sexuality and/or gender - the value of training courses and supervision - persons' narratives as a basis for change. This book comprises a sound basis for one-to-one practitioners wishing to expand their expertise and practice of therapy into working with couples, and for students training in this mode of counselling

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 175mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781848600485
• ISBN-10: 1848600488
• Artikelnr.: 30593083

Autorenporträt

Martin Payne is an independent counsellor working mainly in GP surgeries. During his previous career in Further and Adult Education he found his work was increasingly focussed on assisting students who were experiencing problems in their lives. He trained in counselling at Colchester Institute of Higher Education and gained their Diploma in Counselling. He has completed Intensive Training in Narrative Therapy with Michael White in Adelaide, South Australia, and is the author of Narrative Therapy: an Introduction for Counsellors (Sage Publications: Second edition, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: IDEAS AND PRACTICES
Individual Counselling and Couple Counselling
Narrative Therapy
PART TWO: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INFLUENCES ON COUNSELLORS AND COUPLES
Culturally Formed Attitudes towards Couple Relationships
Counselling Couples of a Different Sexuality, Age or Cultural Background
from the Counsellor
PART THREE: SESSION ORGANIZATION
The First Joint Session Framework
Subsequent Joint Sessions
Subsequent Individual Sessions
Advanced Practices
PART FOUR: SPECIFIC ISSUES
Tensions That Escalate to Crisis Point
Problems with Friends and Family Members
Sexual Difficulties
Infidelity
Violence and Abuse

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PART ONE: IDEAS AND PRACTICES
Individual Counselling and Couple Counselling
Narrative Therapy
PART TWO: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INFLUENCES ON COUNSELLORS AND COUPLES
Culturally Formed Attitudes towards Couple Relationships
Counselling Couples of a Different Sexuality, Age or Cultural Background from the Counsellor
PART THREE: SESSION ORGANIZATION
The First Joint Session Framework
Subsequent Joint Sessions
Subsequent Individual Sessions
Advanced Practices
PART FOUR: SPECIFIC ISSUES
Tensions That Escalate to Crisis Point
Problems with Friends and Family Members
Sexual Difficulties
Infidelity
Violence and Abuse

Rezensionen

'This book is well overdue and fills a gap in the market for accessible, pragmatic and sophisticated writing about therapy with couples. This book is inclusive, user-friendly and manages to make links with other approaches where others see divisions' -
Mark Hayward
Institute of Narrative Therapy

'I strongly recommend this book to any individual counsellor who wants to work effectively with couples, and also to any couple counsellor who wants to enrich their practice' -
Barry Bowen, Systemic Psychotherapist