Measures – Pluralistic Practice

Unlocking the Power of Client Feedback: The Journey of the Patient-Perceived Helpfulness of Measures Scale

Dr Gina Di Malta, Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy and Counselling, Open University The field of mental health and psychotherapy has seen significant advancements over the years with a constant quest to improve therapeutic outcomes. One critical aspect of this quest, and particularly from a pluralistic standpoint, is understanding the client’s…

The Inventory of Preferences: An International Evaluation

September 21, 2023 Information and Updates Measures Preferences Research No Comments

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 6 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,…