Couple Counselling: A Practical Guide

By Martin Payne

Book Overview

Couple Counselling outlines the essential principles and practices of couple counselling. 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 as chapters illustrating counselling for problems frequently experienced by couples, such as sexual difficulties, infidelity, violence and abuse, key content includes:

cultural differences in couples workvarieties of committed relationshipsresponses to specific difficultiesethical issues that arise as a result of working with two peoplegender differences in relation to the counsellor′s own sexuality and/or gender the value of training courses and supervisionpersons′ narratives as a basis for change

This book comprises a sound basis for one-to-one practitioners wishing to expand their expertise and practice of therapy into working with couples, and for students training in this mode of counselling.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848600496
• ISBN13: 9781848600492
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Sage Publishing Ltd
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 9.4"