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Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy Paperback – 2 Nov. 2017
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Eagerly awaited by many counsellors and psychotherapists, this new edition includes an updated preface, new content on recent research and new developments and debates around relational depth, and new case studies.
This groundbreaking text goes to the very heart of the therapeutic meeting between therapist and client. Focusing on the concept of ′relational depth′, the authors describe a form of encounter in which therapist and client experience profound feelings of contact and engagement with each other, and in which the client has an opportunity to explore whatever is experienced as most fundamental to her or his existence. The book has helped thousands of trainees and practitioners understand how to facilitate a relationally-deep encounter, identify the personal ‘blocks’ that may be encountered along the way, and consider new therapeutic concepts – such as ′holistic listening′ – that help them to meet their clients at this level.
This classic text remains a source of fresh thinking and stimulating ideas about the therapeutic encounter which is relevant to trainees and practitioners of all orientations.
- ISBN-101473977932
- ISBN-13978-1473977938
- EditionSecond
- PublisherSAGE Publications Ltd
- Publication date2 Nov. 2017
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions15.49 x 1.52 x 23.11 cm
- Print length248 pages
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Only occasionally do books change the very way we think about practice and introduce concepts that have the power to redefine some of our work, the first edition of Working at Relational Depth did just that, and this second edition takes us several steps further. Entirely updated, refreshed and contemporary in its approach this is, once again, a tour de force in the literature; a further critical development in our understanding of the relationship in counselling and psychotherapy.
-- Dr Andrew Reeves Published On: 2017-05-15Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy 2nd Edition, co-authored by Mick Cooper and Dave Mearns, is a wonderful book which should be on every counsellor’s and counsellor training course’s reading list.
-- Moira Bishop Published On: 2017-05-15This book reminds us that therapy is both an art and a science. The struggle to find words to describe moments of deep healing between two people is balanced by an absorbing look at the neuroscience, developmental psychology and evidence that underpin relational depth. This is both poetry and prose which speak across the different modalities to all therapists who care about their clients.
-- Fiona Ballantine Dykes, Intergrative Therapist and Head of Professional Standards BACP Published On: 2017-05-30The illustrative examples, client accounts and research meshed together into an enjoyable, informative and thought provoking read. It enabled me to realize that, fundamentally, working at relational depth means two human-beings allowing themselves to be seen exactly as they are. Human. With flaws and fears and needs and desires. -- Heather Rimmer Published On: 2018-02-02
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Mick Cooper is Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Roehampton, where he is Director of the Centre for Research in Social and Psychological Transformation (CREST). Mick is a chartered psychologist, a UKCP registered psychotherapist, and a Fellow of the BACP. Mick is author and editor of a range of texts on person-centred, existential and relational approaches to therapy; including Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy (2005, SAGE, with Dave Mearns), Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy
(2011, SAGE, with John McLeod) and Existential Therapies (2nd edn, 2017, SAGE). Mick has led a series of research studies exploring the processes and outcomes of humanistic counselling with young people. Mick is the father of four children and lives in Brighton on the south coast of England.
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- Publisher : SAGE Publications Ltd; Second edition (2 Nov. 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 248 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1473977932
- ISBN-13 : 978-1473977938
- Dimensions : 15.49 x 1.52 x 23.11 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 26,551 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Mick Cooper is a Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Roehampton and a practising counselling psychologist. Mick is author of a range of texts on person-centred, existential and pluralistic approaches to counselling and psychotherapy. His principal research interests are counselling in schools and the the therapeutic relationship.
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For example: The authors quote themselves swearing at a client - to me they sounded like teenagers trying to show how cool they were by swearing and not sticking to the rules...
There do seem to be some similarities between “relational depth” and the “transpersonal relationship” in Petruska Clarkson’s Five Relational Model (published 2 years before this book, but conspicuous by its absence from the references here...)
Inspirational book
Useful book that I will come back to time & again over the next 2yrs of level 4 & beyond!