Measures – Pluralistic Practice

The Inventory of Preferences: An International Evaluation

Mick Cooper, Professor of Counselling Psychology, University of Roehampton Over the past few years, a team of us have been working together to bring together all the datasets on the Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences (C-NIP). The tool was developed by John Norcross and myself to support the assessment of clients’…

Enhancing Mental Health and Wellbeing Outcomes for Psychotherapy and Counselling through Idiographic Analysis: A Four-Quadrant Approach

May 31, 2023 Measures Research Shared decision making No Comments

Jenna Jacob, Research Lead, Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC) at Anna Freud I completed a Ph.D. by published works at the University of Roehampton in 2020. This is an alternative route to a Ph.D. qualification, where the research is already published and then the candidate pulls together a supporting piece…

Collaboration, Metacommunication, and Pluralistic Therapy

May 28, 2022 Critiques Integrative and Eclectic Practices Measures Metatherapeutic communication Policy Preferences Shared decision making 4 Comments

Jay Beichman, Counsellor/Psychotherapist in Private Practice The following thoughts about collaboration, metacommunication, and pluralistic therapy are drawn from my thesis How Counsellors and Psychotherapists Make Sense of Pluralistic Approaches to Therapy (2018). I write this in anticipation of this year’s Pluralistic Therapy Conference. In my view, pluralism is better thought…

Pluralism, Practice-Based Evidence, and Practice Research Networks

October 29, 2021 Measures Personal Practice Research No Comments

Bill Andrews, co founder of Pragmatic Tracker; Honorary Researcher, CREST, University of Roehampton I trained as a dentist originally back in Cork and spent 22 years looking at people upside down on my dental chair. In the early 2000s I went from ‘dental’ to ‘mental’ and trained as a Human…

Reflections on Using the Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences (C-NIP): Confronting Early Dropout

April 1, 2021 Measures Person-centred Personal Practice Shared decision making 2 Comments

Michelle Briggs, UKCP-accredited psychotherapist in private practice at Counselling West Bridgford Pressure to Connect? I tend to describe myself as a person-centred psychotherapist, placing the therapist-client relationship at the heart of the therapeutic process, following the pace of and being led by the client. This is all well and good,…