Category: Metatherapeutic communication

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

October 16, 2023 Information and Updates Measures Metatherapeutic communication Research No Comments
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…

Making Learning Personal and Pluralistic: Giving Students What They Need, What They Want, and What Makes Sense

July 4, 2023 Cultural diversity Metatherapeutic communication Training 5 Comments
Dr Paul Galbally & Dr Fevronia Christodoulidi, BSc (Hons) Counselling, University of East London In our exciting new article in Teaching in Higher Education, we take a pluralistic perspective to demonstrate how academics at the University of East London—working with a diverse cohort of students in a collaborative, reflexive, and…

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…

‘Scaffolding’ and ‘De-Specifying’: Deepening an Understanding of Clients’ Preferences through Conversational Analysis

April 7, 2022 Co-production Metatherapeutic communication Practice Preferences Shared decision making Training No Comments
Sarah Cantwell, @cantwels1 For better or worse, I’ve always had a drive towards trying to comprehend the fundamental structure of things. Unsurprisingly then, I majored in philosophy for my undergraduate degree, and I took my curiosity about underlying causes with me, through my studies in psychology and into my counselling…

The Metatherapeutic Current in Pluralism

March 31, 2022 Arts therapies Co-production Critiques Integrative and Eclectic Practices Metatherapeutic communication Person-centred Preferences Therapeutic approaches Training 5 Comments
Nicola Blunden, BSc Person-Centred Pluralistic Counselling, Metanoia Institute, London Terry Eagleton, one of my favourite philosophers, has written that, ‘For much of the time, our intellectual and other activities bowl along fairly serenely, and in this situation no great expenditure of theoretical energy is usually necessary. But there may come…