Developing a pluralistic framework for counselling & psychotherapy research: workshop

A collaborative pluralistic framework is increasingly influencing therapy practice. Grounded in a philosophical position that accepts there is no single true or valid perspective on significant questions of social life, this approach to therapy is associated with a form of practice characterised by key features: client-therapist dialogue; collaboration and shared decision-making around goals, tasks, methods and ways of understanding; activation of the potential therapeutic value of cultural resources and social capital and, an appreciation that models of help are open systems that need to be flexibly responsive to social change. Developing these therapeutic principles involved critical re-evaluation and reconceptualization of the contribution of scientific knowledge, leading to the emergence of a pluralistic approach to research. The workshop provides creative, reflective and inspirational space where delegates can explore and their own engagement in research, and its benefits for research in the counselling professions as a whole.

The workshop provides creative, reflective and inspirational space where delegates can explore and
critique the notion of a pluralistic research framework, consider its potential benefit in relation to
their own engagement in research, and its benefits for research in the counselling professions as a
whole.