Working with Goals in Psychotherapy and Counselling

• 1: Duncan Law and Mick Cooper: Introduction


• 2: John McLeod and Thomas Mackrill: Philosophical, conceptual and ethical perspectives on working with goals in therapy


• 3: Mick Cooper: The Psychology of Goals: A Practice-Friendly Review


• 4: Amy Feltham, Kate Martin, Leanne Walker, Lydia Harris, and Grace Jeremy: Using Goals in Therapy: The Perspective of People with Lived Experience


• 5: Georgiana Shick Tryon: Goals and Psychotherapy Research


• 6: Jenna Jacob, Julian Edbrooke-Childs, Christopher Lloyd, Daniel Hayes, Isabelle Whelan, Miranda Wolpert, and Duncan Law: Measuring Outcomes Using Goals


• 7: Windy Dryden: From Problems to Goals: Identifying 'Good' Goals in Psychotherapy and Counselling


• 8: Duncan Law: Goal-oriented Practice


• 9: Nick Grey, Suzanne Byrne, Tracey Taylor, Avi Shmueli, Cathy Troupp, Peter Stratton, Aaron Sefi, Roslyn Law, and Mick Cooper: Goal-oriented Practice Across Therapies


• 10: Duncan Law and Mick Cooper: Conclusion


• Goal-based Outcome Measures for both Children and Adults

Consultant Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years experience working across the NHS, Local Authority and third sectors. Consultant Clinical Associate at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and previously Clinical Lead for Children and Young Peoples Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (CYP IAPT) for the London and South East. Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London and Royal Holloway University of London, a board member of ACAMH, MAC-UK, CORC, & Director of MindMonkey Associates. Former Chair of the British Psychological Society's Division of Clinical Psychology's Faculty for Children, Young People and their Families and was Clinical Lead in Hertfordshire CAMHS.

Mick Cooper is Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Roehampton, where he is Director of the Centre for Research in Social and psychological Transformation (CREST). Mick is a chartered psychologist, a UKCP-registered psychotherapist, and a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Mick is author and editor of a range of texts on person-centred, existential, and relational approaches to therapy; including Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2005, with Dave Mearns), Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2011, with John McLeod), and Existential Therapies (2nd ed., Sage, 2017). Mick has led a series of research studies exploring the processes and outcomes of humanistic counselling with young people. Mick is the father of four children and lives in Brighton, on the south coast of England.

Working with Goals in Psychotherapy and Counselling is a philosophically grounded, research informed, practical text that will make you think differently about the use (and importance) of goals in therapeutic work. No matter what therapeutic approach you are trained in, there is something in this book for you.
Dr Terry Hanley, Programme Director of the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology, University of Manchester, UK