Abstract
Pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy, as a form of practice, is a collaborative integrative approach that recognises that there are multiple valid perspectives on what is helpful for clients and that different therapeutic concepts and methods can be suitable and effective for different clients at different times.
Key points include:
• Pluralistic therapists see clients as co-therapists rather than passive help-seeker; they try to support clients to find out and express what they want from therapy and how this can be achieved.
• This means collaboratively discovering and agreeing on goals, tasks and methods, while considering clients’ difficulties, resources, insights, and preferences.
• Decisions and understandings are made explicit—where possible and desirable—through dialogue, metacommunication, and feedback.
• The intention is to co-create a therapy process that draws on the ideas and experiences of both the client and therapist.
Key points include:
• Pluralistic therapists see clients as co-therapists rather than passive help-seeker; they try to support clients to find out and express what they want from therapy and how this can be achieved.
• This means collaboratively discovering and agreeing on goals, tasks and methods, while considering clients’ difficulties, resources, insights, and preferences.
• Decisions and understandings are made explicit—where possible and desirable—through dialogue, metacommunication, and feedback.
• The intention is to co-create a therapy process that draws on the ideas and experiences of both the client and therapist.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Sage handbook of counselling and psychotherapy |
| Editors | Terry Hanley, Laura Anne Winter |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | SAGE |
| Chapter | 5.22 |
| Pages | 462-468 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Edition | 5th |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781529783889 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781529781083, 9781529781090 |
| Publication status | Published - 2 Mar 2023 |