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.
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
