Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy

Front Cover
SAGE, Sep 25, 2017 - Psychology - 248 pages

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.

 

Selected pages

Contents

Other editions - View all

Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Dave Mearns,Mick Cooper
Limited preview - 2005
Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Dave Mearns,Mick Cooper
Limited preview - 2005
Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Dave Mearns,Mick Cooper,Professor of Counselling Psychology Mick Cooper
Limited preview - 2017
View all »

Common terms and phrases

aware Basingstoke become behaviour Buber challenge Chapter chronic strategies communication congruence connection core conditions counselling and psychotherapy Dave Dave’s deeper described developmental agenda dialogue Dominic Dominic’s drunk emotional empathy encounter group engagement at relational existential existential therapy experiences of relational experiencing Experiential Psychotherapies explore express facilitate feel felt focused fundamental genuine happen human Humanistic psychotherapies impact important in-depth infants instance interactions interpersonal Irvin Yalom Knox level of relational lives London look Martin Buber Mearns meeting at relational Mick moments of relational offer one’s particular patient person person-centred therapy powerful present psychological reflect relational depth relationally deep encounter response Rick Rogers Ross-on-Wye schizophrenia Schmid self-acceptance sense session silence social social neuroscience someone strategies of disconnection suggests surface level talking therapeutic relationship therapist and client things Transactional analysis trauma Trevarthen unconditional positive regard understanding University of Strathclyde

About the author (2017)

Dave Mearns is formerly Director of the Counselling Unit and Professor of Counselling at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Dave is author or co-author of four other counselling books published by SAGE: Person-Centred Counselling in Action, Second Edition, Experiences of Counselling in Action, Person-Centred Counselling Training and Person-Centred Therapy Today: New Frontiers in Theory and Practice.

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleWorking at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy
AuthorsDave Mearns, Mick Cooper
Edition2, unabridged
PublisherSAGE, 2017
ISBN1526416913, 9781526416919
Length248 pages
Subjects › 

Psychology / General
Social Science / Human Services
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan