Couple Counselling
A Practical Guide
- Martin Payne - Private Practice, Norwich
- 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
I will recommend this to any of my Diploma students who have an interest in working with couples. I have also found it useful for my own practice.
Couple counselling is not taught as a stand alone course, but part of. Therefore this book, gave an overall view of couple counselling that was easy to understand and shared some very useful insight and tips.
This is a good basic handbook and practical guide, setting out the process of narrative therapy with couples clearly and with many case illustrations. Academically, however, it is rather too basic for level 7 students
Useful but as there is not much provision for couple work in the NHS we focus much more on CBT using your Westbrook et al text
Course no longer running
very informative read ans as it says a practical guide
The book actually deals with issues which are outside the perameters of the Foundation degree which I am about to deliver.
A useful and recommended text detailing practical considerations in couples counselling
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.
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.
