Applied conversation analysis for counselling and psychotherapy researchers

Counselling: Pastoral Care or Psychotherapy?

Use the word 'counselling' in the presence of Christian ministers and it is guaranteed to produce a whole variety of responses. Some will readily and warmly receive the word because they have taken a counselling course, read some counselling books or practised some counselling skills; others will want a more precise definition to clarify just what is meant, and yet others will react in horror a...

Defining and delivering effective counselling and psychotherapy

Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice. ANarrative Framework

For Professor Tantam, clients seeking psychotherapy are demoralised and in existential crisis, vulnerable but with an opportunity to achieve a healthier adjustment. The therapist should facilitate her client’s self-healing by involving him in collaborative conversations relevant to his values, his preoccupying concerns and his life’s narrative. As factors promoting remoralisation are common to ...

Part I Psychotherapy and Counselling Outcome Research

Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice. ANarrative Framework

For Professor Tantam, clients seeking psychotherapy are demoralised and in existential crisis, vulnerable but with an opportunity to achieve a healthier adjustment. The therapist should facilitate her client’s self-healing by involving him in collaborative conversations relevant to his values, his preoccupying concerns and his life’s narrative. As factors promoting remoralisation are common to ...