In this event, Divine & Stephen talked about their new book “The Therapeutic Relationship Handbook: Theory and Practice”, what led them to produce this publication, how it has influenced their work, & how they hoped it would be helpful to colleagues.
The Therapeutic Relationship Handbook: Theory and Practice – Divine Charura & Stephen Paul – (October 2014)
Practitioners across many counselling approaches acknowledge that the therapeutic relationship is central to therapy and its outcomes. This book argues that the therapeutic relationship cannot be reduced to particular words or therapeutic skills, but is a relationship encounter that promotes dialogue, contact and process. In each chapter, experts in different fields interpret the therapeutic relationship through the lens of their own modality, offering:
– summaries of the key theoretical and research bases;
– example case studies of therapeutic interventions that illuminate key relational components of the approach and the development and management of the therapeutic relationship;
– study of the limitations, challenges and complexities of maintaining a therapeutic relationship; and
– exploration of new developments in working with clients – capturing work that the authors and other colleagues have been involved in developing in that area.
The Therapeutic Relationship Handbook is a broad ranging guide for students as well as both new and experienced practitioners.
Please click HERE for more information about the book.
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Presenter
Dr. Divine Charura is a full Professor of Counselling Psychology at York St John University (England). He is a Chartered Psychologist, and Counselling Psychologist with the British Psychological Society. He is registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council in England. Divine is also an Honorary Fellow of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy and an Adult Psychotherapist.
Divine’s psychotherapeutic interests are in exploring the therapeutic relationship when working with, loss, diversity, psychological distress, Trauma, love, relationships and their impact of on being. Divine has co-authored and edited numerous books in counselling, psychology and psychotherapy. These include Love and Therapy: In Relationship [co-edited with Stephen Paul] and with Colin Lago has co-edited the following books The Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy Handbook: Origins, Developments and Current Applications and Black Identities + White therapies: Race respect and diversity.
Divine is a lover of photography, art, music and outdoor pursuits.
I have recently retired as Director of The Centre for Psychological Therapies at Leeds Metropolitan University after 20 years of service. I am a client-centred psychotherapist and co-editor of The Therapeutic Relationship: Themes and Perspectives (PCCS, 2008) and The Therapeutic Relationship Handbook: Theory and (McGraw-Hill / OUP, 2014). I was instrumental in developing a Relational Approach to Therapy with Geoff Pelham (1999). I have written a chapter on coaching in the NHS (with Bill Penson) in Thew M and McKenna J., (Eds) Lifestyle Management in Health and Social Care (Wiley, 2008).
I undertook my first training in Coaching in 2002. I oversaw the development of an MA programme and have taught coaching to both staff and students at various universities. I am currently delivering a fourth foundation certificate to student services staff at the University of Brighton.
I have worked extensively in both adult, and child & adolescent psychiatry. I have also been head of a therapeutic school and was Director of the VSO programme in Bhutan. I now write; practise therapy, supervision, and coaching; and provide training.
