Integrating Counselling & Psychotherapy

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: helping clients move towards the things they most deeply, genuinely want. Using in-depth case examples, author Mick Cooper shows you how to apply this model in therapy practice. He details a range of methods for helping improve your clients' well-being, and gives you the confidence to tailor the therapy to particular clients, and respond to their goals at particular times. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical ideas and practices, this fascinating book considers how changes take effect at both an individual and social level. It is particularly recommended reading for integrative, eclectic and pluralistic trainees and practicing therapists; as well as all therapists who are interested in working collaboratively with their client, and adopting a broader psycho-social perspective to inform their therapeutic work.