Couple Counselling
A Practical Guide
- Martin Payne - Private Practice, Norwich
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 work
- varieties of committed relationships
- responses to specific difficulties
- ethical issues that arise as a result of working with two people
- gender differences in relation to the counsellor's own sexuality and/or gender
- the value of training courses and supervision
- persons' 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.
'This book is well overdue and fills a gap in the market for accessible, pragmatic and sophisticated writing about therapy with couples. This book is inclusive, user-friendly and manages to make links with other approaches where others see divisions' -
Mark HaywardInstitute of Narrative Therapy
'I strongly recommend this book to any individual counsellor who wants to work effectively with couples, and also to any couple counsellor who wants to enrich their practice' -
Barry Bowen, Systemic Psychotherapist
A useful and recommended text detailing practical considerations in couples counselling
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This ia avalid introductory texts for trainee counselling psychologists. Easy enough for trainees with some background in general cousnelling and systemic thinking. Advanced enough to provide some challenge.
This publication is outstanding! It helpfully guides the practitioner through the transistion from indivudal counselling to working with couples together with discussing the strucutre of the first session and beyond.
I highly recommend this publication for anyone interested in developing from individual to couples counselling.
This is a great resource for those involved in couple counselling, not only from a counselling professional perspective, but also for those involved in counselling couples in different settings.
Refreshing...will certainly be on the booklist. Payne gives a fascinating introduction to Narrative therapy and identifies the 'common ground' it occupies with many other modalities. He addresses, with clarity, the issues so often presented in couple/relationship counselling, and presents them in 'Plain English' and in an easy to understand no frills format.
The book actually deals with issues which are outside the perameters of the Foundation degree which I am about to deliver.
A sound resource for those interested in this field, this book links with a number of the modules in our Foundation Degree in Counselling. The layout is clear and accessible and I particularly like the exercises containing progressive exploration of problems.
A good textbook for working with couples. A practical guide to working with couples with good examples.
