Practitioners across many counselling approaches acknowledge that the therapeutic relationship is central to therapy and its outcomes. This book argues that the therapeutic relationship cannot be reduced to particular words or therapeutic skills, but is a relationship encounter that promotes dialogue, contact and process. In each chapter, experts in different fields interpret the therapeutic relationship through the lens of their own modality, offering:
Exploration of new developments in working with clients - capturing work that the authors and other colleagues have been involved in developing in that area The Therapeutic
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
About the Editors
Contributors
Introduction
Section 1: Modalities and the One-to-One Therapeutic Relationship
The therapeutic relationship in counselling and psychotherapy
Psychoanalysis and conceptualisation of the therapeutic relationship
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and the therapeutic relationship
Existential, humanistic and transpersonal therapies and the relational approach
The person centered approach: Courage, presence and complexity: A template for relationship in a postmodern/post-structuralist world
Section 2: Cross modality, Relational, Integrative, Creative and Coaching
The drama of the therapeutic encounter – a cross modality approach
An integrative approach to the psychotherapeutic relationship: Therapeutic challenges and successes
Relational therapy - defining the therapeutic relationship
The opportunities, challenges and complexities of maintaining therapeutic relationship within the creative therapies
Process based relational-centred training: Preparing psychotherapy students to work at relational depth
Dimensions of the coaching relationship
Section 3: Group Therapies, Systemic, Couple/Marital and Family Therapy, and Sex Therapy
The relationship in group therapy
The therapeutic relationship in the systemic therapies
The therapeutic relationship in couples/marital and family therapy
Sex and relationship therapy: Therapeutic relationship perspectives
Section 4: The relationship in the helping professions and mental health
The therapeutic relationship in the helping professions
Working with diagnosis within psychiatric settings: About diagnosis evolution and paradigm shift
Psychiatry and young people
Psychotherapy for disorganised attachment, dissociation and dissociative identity disorder
Making the invisible visible: The relationship when working with learning disabilities
Section 5: Further Dimensions of the Therapeutic Relationship
Transcultural and diversity perspectives: The space between us
Spirituality in therapeutic relationships
Online text-based and video linked relationships: Holograms don't get hangovers
The neuroscience of relationships: Discovering the glia of relationship or reinventing the psychotherapeutic wheel?
Conclusion
Index
