Pluralistic Therapy

Responses to Frequently Asked Questions

Frankie Brown, Kate Smith

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032305707
• eBook ISBN: 9781000889505
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Pluralistic Therapy provides answers to the most important and common questions asked about the origins, principles, and practice of pluralism.

Written in an accessible style by experts in the field, the book provides the reader with a comprehensive understanding of the pluralistic approach in theory and practice, and builds on the contemporary developments in the field. The questions cover five areas, including an overview of pluralism, pluralism in practice, client factors, pluralistic developments outside of individual therapy, and critical questions about pluralism. The questions also cover some of the key challenges posed to the approach.

This book will appeal to a wide range of audiences, including therapeutic practitioners, researchers, and professionals interested in the application of the approach within mental health contexts. It will also serve to help professionals from non-therapy backgrounds such as mental health services, education, and social care, understand the nature of pluralistic work.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Section 1 An overview of pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy
• Section 2 Pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy in practice
• Section 3 Working with specific client factors in pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy
• Section 4 Pluralistic developments outside of individual counselling and psychotherapy
• Section 5 Critiques of pluralistic counselling and psychotherapy
• Appendix I The ‘Ways Paradigm’ of Frankie
• Appendix II Which measure and when?
• References
• Index