CPD WORKSHOP

Pluralistic Therapy

About the Workshop

This workshop will introduce, and look at the practical implications of, a pluralistic approach to counselling, psychotherapy and psychological practice. This framework was developed with John McLeod in the 2000s, and has since been adopted by a number of practitioners and training institutes across the UK and internationally. The pluralistic approach is a collaborative, integrative perspective, deeply rooted in humanistic and person-centred values. Its fundamental premise is that each client is unique, and therefore may need different things from therapy. On this basis, the pluralistic approach creates a framework in which practitioners can integrate a wide variety of understandings and methods into their practice. A key element of this pluralistic approach is shared decision making: talking to clients about what they want from therapy, and how they might most effectively be helped to get there.

Who is it for?

The workshop is appropriate for training and practising counsellors, psychotherapists, counselling psychologists and other mental health professionals.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Describe the basic principles of a pluralistic approach to counselling and psychotherapy

• Recognise evidence and arguments that support, and challenge, a personalised approach to therapy

• Explain the ways in which they are able to help clients, and the methods they use to facilitate this

• Critically discuss the strengths, and limits, of ‘metatherapeutic communication’: talking to clients about what they want from therapy

• Apply basic methods of metatherapeutic communication

• Critically evaluate the use of process and outcome measures in therapeutic practice.

About the Trainer

MICK COOPER is an internationally recognised author, trainer and consultant in the field of humanistic, existential and pluralistic therapies. He is a Chartered Psychologist, and Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Roehampton. Mick has facilitated workshops and lectures around the world, including Australia, Lithuania and Florida. Mick’s books include Existential Therapies (Sage, 2017), Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2018), and The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling (Palgrave, 2013). His principal areas of research have been in shared decision-making/personalising therapy, and counselling for young people in schools. In 2014, Mick received the Carmi Harari Mid-Career Award from Division 32 of the American Psychological Association. He is a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and the Academy of Social Sciences.

Key Facts

Workshop Date:

Times: 9am to 3.30pm

Fee: £95

Participants: Maximum of 18 per Workshop

Qualification: CPD Certificate will be given

Location: Worthing College

If you would like to book a place on this workshop, please email your interest to deborah@caracounsellingtraining.co.uk. For details of other CPD training events please return to the home page.

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