Mick Cooper is Professor of Counselling Psychology at University of Roehampton.
A practical resource that your students can return to again and again to guide and coordinate their pluralistic practice, it provides:
*Hands-on guidance to developing pluralistic practice:... (more)
We live in troubled times: climate crisis, war and authoritarian 'populism' are just some of the challenges we are currently facing. Never has there been such a need for a new approach to politics -... (more)
What does it mean to practice therapy in an existential way? What are the different existential approaches? What are their strengths and limitations? Focusing on practical, face-to-face work with... (more)
What can child and adolescent counsellors and therapists learn from research? What evidence is there for the effectiveness of different therapies and techniques? How can developmental or neuroscience... (more)
Eagerly awaited by many counsellors and psychotherapists, this new edition includes an updated preface, new content on recent research and new developments and debates around relational depth, and... (more)
This highly practical book presents a model for understanding distress and change in counselling and psychotherapy. It demonstrates the key similarity between different therapeutic approaches:... (more)
This work on polypsychic thinking presents empirical evidence in support of the polypsychic model and explores its application within a clinical and therapeutic setting. (more)
Are some therapies more effective than others? How important is the relationship? Which clients do best in therapy? This book answers these questions and many more, providing trainees, practitioners... (more)
Mick Cooper and John McLeod pioneer a major new framework for counselling theory, practice and research - the 'pluralistic' approach. This model breaks away from the orientation-specific way in which... (more)
Building on the success of the first edition, this substantially revised and extended new edition is set to remain the most in-depth and wide-ranging book available on person-centred psychotherapy... (more)
This book is for trainees and practitioners across the orientations who wish to incorporate an existential approach into their practice. Using a pluralistic perspective that recognises the diversity... (more)
Unravelling the issues surrounding the therapeutic relationship, this book highlights the importance of the relationship itself, of the client as a proactive agent in the process, and of the need for... (more)
Part of the PCCS Books bestselling Primers in Counselling series, The Existential Counselling Primer is a concise summary of the philosophical origins of existentialist therapy, existentialist... (more)