This practical book outlines the essential principles and practices of couplecounselling. 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 aschapters 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 practiceof therapy into working with couples, and for students training in this mode of counselling
- ISBN: 978-1-84860-049-2
- Editorial: Sage Publications
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 216
- Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés