The Therapeutic Relationship Handbook

Acknowledgements About the Editors Contributors Introduction Section 1: Modalities and the One-to-One Therapeutic Relationship The therapeutic relationship in counselling and psychotherapy Psychoanalysis and conceptualisation of the therapeutic relationship Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and the therapeutic relationship Existential, humanistic and transpersonal therapies and the relational approach The person centered approach: Courage, presence and complexity: A template for relationship in a postmodern/post-structuralist world Section 2: Cross modality, Relational, Integrative, Creative and Coaching The drama of the therapeutic encounter - a cross modality approach An integrative approach to the psychotherapeutic relationship: Therapeutic challenges and successes Relational therapy - defining the therapeutic relationship The opportunities, challenges and complexities of maintaining therapeutic relationship within the creative therapies Process based relational-centred training: Preparing psychotherapy students to work at relational depth Dimensions of the coaching relationship Section 3: Group Therapies, Systemic, Couple/Marital and Family Therapy, and Sex Therapy The relationship in group therapy The therapeutic relationship in the systemic therapies The therapeutic relationship in couples/marital and family therapy Sex and relationship therapy: Therapeutic relationship perspectives Section 4: The relationship in the helping professions and mental health The therapeutic relationship in the helping professions Working with diagnosis within psychiatric settings: About diagnosis evolution and paradigm shift Psychiatry and young people Psychotherapy for disorganised attachment, dissociation and dissociative identity disorder Making the invisible visible: The relationship when working with learning disabilities Section 5: Further Dimensions of the Therapeutic Relationship Transcultural and diversity perspectives: The space between us Spirituality in therapeutic

Divine Charura is a Senior Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is an Adult Psychotherapist who works in the NHS, voluntary sector and in private practice. Divine is also an independent trainer, supervisor and coach. He has published various papers and contributed to various books which include The Transcultural Handbook for Counselling and Psychotherapy edited by Colin Lago (Open UP, 2011). Stephen Paul is a client-centred psychotherapist, practising the areas of therapy, supervision and coaching, and providing training. He retired as Director of The Centre for Psychological Therapies at Leeds Metropolitan University in 2012 after 20 years of service. His published work includes chapters on love, spirituality and therapy, coaching and group therapy.