The Practice of Collaborative Counseling and Psychotherapy : Developing Skills in Culturally Mindful Helping

The Practice of Collaborative Counseling and Psychotherapy: Developing Skills in Culturally Mindful Helping is a comprehensive introduction to counseling and psychotherapy skills designed to teach future practitioners how to develop and foster collaborative relationships with their clients. Keeping power relations and cultural diversity at the forefront, Pare's text examines, step by step, the skills involved in collaborative therapeutic conversation--an approach that encourages a contextual view of clients and counteracts longstanding traditions of focusing primarily on individual pathology. Indeed, this insightful text teaches students how to keep clients at the heart of their therapy treatment by actively engaging them in the helping process. Guided by the notion of local knowledge, Pare acknowledges the resourcefulness of clients, showing how to capitalize on existing skills and abilities to construct useful change. This textbook reinvigorates the training of counselors and psychotherapists by drawing on a wide range of contemporary ideas and practices. The Instructor's teaching site include instructional videos which feature a diverse group of practitioners demonstrating the skills introduced in the text. The Practice of Collaborative Counseling and Psychotherapy: Developing Skills in Culturally Mindful Helping is a comprehensive introduction to counseling and psychotherapy skills designed to teach future practitioners how to develop and foster collaborative relationships with their clients. Keeping power relations and cultural diversity at the forefront, Paré's text examines, step by step, the skills involved in collaborative therapeutic conversation—an approach that encourages a contextual view of clients and counteracts longstanding traditions of focusing primarily on individual pathology. Indeed, this insightful text teaches students how to keep clients at the heart of their therapy treatment by actively engaging them in the helping process. Guided by the notion of local knowledge, Paré acknowledges the resourcefulness of clients, showing how to capitalize on existing skills and abilities to construct useful change. This textbook reinvigorates the training of counselors and psychotherapists by drawing on a wide range of contemporary ideas and practices. The Instructor's teaching site include instructional videos which feature a diverse group of practitioners demonstrating the skills introduced in the text. David Pare, PhD is a psychologist and family therapist. He is also a full professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Education, where he teaches counselling and psychotherapy. The director of the Glebe Institute, A Centre for Constructive and Collaborative Practice, Dr. Pare has a long-standing interest in collaborative approaches to counselling and supervision. He is co-editor of Collaborative Practice in Psychology and Therapy (with Glenn Larner) and Furthering Talk: Advances in the Discursive Therapies (with Tom Strong). Half Title 2 Title Page 3 Copyright Page 4 Contents 6 Foreword 7 Preface 9 Acknowledgements 12 Section One Preparing for Practice 14 Chapter 1 Culture, Counseling, and Care 15 Chapter 2 Therapeutic Conversation 69 Section Two Constructing a Foundation for Collaboration 93 Chapter 3 Receiving and Listening 95 Chapter 4 Building the Relationship 129 Section Three Mapping Clients' Experience 164 Chapter 5 Receiving and Reading Meaning 166 Chapter 6 Responding to and Confirming Meaning 206 Section Four Assessing Challenges, Preferences, and Opportunities 245 Chapter 7 Defining and Describing Problems and Preferences 246 Chapter 8 Assessment I: Evaluating Challenges and Competencies 292 Chapter 9 Assessment II: Attending to the Wider Context 330 Section Five Promoting Change 373 Chapter 10 Collaborative Influence: Achievable Goals Toward Preferred Outcomes 375 Chapter 11 Working with Actions 431 Chapter 12 Working with Thoughts and Beliefs 468 Chapter 13 Working with Emotions and Values 511 Chapter 14 Working with Stories 550 Chapter 15 Endings and Beginnings 590 Glossary 606 Appendix 1: Assessment 612 Appendix 2: Signs of Abuse 624 Appendix 3: Assessing for Suicidality 630 Appendix 4: Mindfulness, Meditation, and the Breath 636 References 641 Index 682 About the Author 710 Collaborative Helping Skills is a T1 for courses in the helping professions that helps students learn the basic skills of helping. The course is a requirement for any student in counseling, psychotherapy, or social work as it prepares the student for the work they will be doing with clients. This book has a focus on developing skills that are collaborative by involving the client in the helping process/solution and it has an integrated focus on multicultural skills and social justice. The book first outlines the basic process of counseling and counselor self care, then goes into conversation and counseling, receiving, attending, listening, positive regard, empathy, and connection. Then the author moves into the basics of developing a relationship with the client as well as relating to the experience. Finally the book moves toward the treatment planning stage via a shared experience by involving the client in the process. Every chapter will contain the following pedagogy: • Case study • Sample dialogue • Chapter objectives • Boxed capsules to highlight key skills • Reflections on practice • Experiential exercises • questions for reflection • Video demonstrations Keeping power relations and cultural diversity at the forefront, this is a comprehensive introduction to counseling and psychotherapy skills designed to teach future practitioners how to develop and foster collaborative relationships with their clients.