Couple Counselling: A Practical Guide

This practical book outlines the essential principles and practices of couple counselling. Demystifying this form of therapy, the author provides a step-by-step guide from the first meeting through to subsequent sessions.

The book includes a wealth of supporting features including case examples, student exercises, points for reflection and memory-jog pages to use in practice. As well as chapters illustrating counselling for problems frequently experienced by couples, such as sexual difficulties, infidelity, violence and abuse, key content includes:

cultural differences in couples work

varieties of committed relationships

responses to specific difficulties

ethical issues which may arise when working with two people

considerations related to the counsellor's own sexuality and/or gender

the value of training courses and supervision

persons' narratives as the basis for change.

This book provides a sound resource 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.