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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: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.
Counselling Couples of a Different Sexuality, Age or Cultural Background from the Counsellor
Counselling Couples of a Different Sexuality, Age or Cultural Background from the Counsellor
As I suggested in Chapter 2, counsellors who work with individuals will bring assumed and familiar ethical assumptions to couple counselling. It would be patronizing, and surely superfluous, for this book to argue the case for accepting persons for counselling no matter what their sexuality, age, ethnicity, culture or personal beliefs. In their work with individuals, counsellors will already have developed sensitivity to when their own cultures norms might clash with the norms of persons who consult them; for example, male counsellors are unlikely to offer to shake an Indian woman's hand, and a Western woman counsellor is unlikely to ...
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