Couple Counselling

Couple Counselling 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 workvarieties of committed relationshipsresponses to specific difficultiesethical issues that arise as a result of working with two peoplegender differences in relation to the counsellor?s own sexuality and/or gender the value of training courses and supervisionpersons? narratives as a basis for changeThis 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.