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Practitioners across many counselling approaches acknowledge that the therapeutic relationship is central to therapy and its outcomes. This book argues that the therapeutic relationship cannot be reduced to particular words or therapeutic skills, but is a relationship encounter that promotes dialogue, contact and process.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
About the Editors
ContributorsIntroduction
Section 1: Modalities and the One-to-One Therapeutic Relationship
The therapeutic relationship in counselling and psychotherapy
Psychoanalysis and conceptualisation of the therapeutic relationship
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and the therapeutic relationship
Existential, humanistic and transpersonal therapies and the relational approach
The person centered approach: Courage, presence and complexity: A template for relationship in a postmodern/post-structuralist world
Section 2: Cross modality, Relational, Integrative, Creative and CoachingThe drama of the therapeutic encounter - a cross modality approach
An integrative approach to the psychotherapeutic relationship: Therapeutic challenges and successes
Relational therapy - defining the therapeutic relationship
The opportunities, challenges and complexities of maintaining therapeutic relationship within the creative therapies
Process based relational-centred training: Preparing psychotherapy students to work at relational depth
Dimensions of the coaching relationship
Section 3: Group Therapies, Systemic, Couple/Marital and Family Therapy, and Sex TherapyThe relationship in group therapy
The therapeutic relationship in the systemic therapies
The therapeutic relationship in couples/marital and family therapy
Sex and relationship therapy: Therapeutic relationship perspectives
Section 4: The relationship in the helping professions and mental healthThe therapeutic relationship in the helping professions
Working with diagnosis within psychiatric settings: About diagnosis evolution and paradigm shift
Psychiatry and young people
Psychotherapy for disorganised attachment, dissociation and dissociative identity disorder
Making the invisible visible: The relationship when working with learning disabilities
Section 5: Further Dimensions of the Therapeutic RelationshipTranscultural and diversity perspectives: The space between us
Spirituality in therapeutic relationships
Online text-based and video linked relationships: Holograms don't get hangovers
The neuroscience of relationships: Discovering the glia of relationship or reinventing the psychotherapeutic wheel?Conclusion
Index
About the author
Divine Charura is a Senior Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is an Adult Psychotherapist who works in the NHS, voluntary sector and in private practice. Divine is also an independent trainer, supervisor and coach. He has published various papers and contributed to various books which include
The Transcultural Handbook for Counselling and Psychotherapy edited by Colin Lago (Open UP, 2011).Stephen Paul is a client-centred psychotherapist, practising the areas of therapy, supervision and coaching, and providing training. He retired as Director of The Centre for Psychological Therapies at Leeds Metropolitan University in 2012 after 20 years of service. His published work includes chapters on love, spirituality and therapy, coaching and group therapy.
