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Pluralistic Practice

Celebrating diversity in therapy

  • Home
  • About
    • How Pluralistic Therapy Works
    • Introduction to Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy
    • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on the pluralistic approach
    • Writing a Blog for Pluralistic Practice
    • Past Networking Events
  • Training
    • Degree Courses
    • Master’s Courses
    • Doctoral Courses
  • Research
    • Research Initiatives
    • Evidence to Support Pluralistic Practice
    • Research News
    • Developing a Pluralistic Framework for Counselling and Psychotherapy Research – BACP workshop
  • Publications
  • Tools and Measures
  • Videos
    • Pluralistic Conference 2020
    • Pluralistic Conference 2021
    • Pluralistic Conference 2022
  • Get Involved
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Tools and Measures

Goals Form

The Goals Form is a simple, personalised tool that can be used to set and monitor goals in counselling and psychotherapy.

Goals Form (blank form, Word)Download
Goals Form: Instructions for use (pdf)Download

A video demonstrating therapeutic work with the Goals Form can be found here

The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences (C-NIP)

The C-NIP is a brief measure for use at assessment and review sessions to facilitate a discussion about the client’s preferences for counselling and psychotherapy. The form can be downloaded below, or an online version of the tool (with automatic scoring) can be completed.

Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences (with guidelines)Download
A therapist version of the C-NIP, for self-reflection, research, and training purposes, is available here. Download

Therapy Pluralism Inventory

The Therapy Pluralism Inventory is a brief questionnaire for assessing the extent to which a practitioner endorses a pluralistic philosophy, and practices in a pluralistic way. Read more about the TPI

Therapy Pluralism InventoryDownload

Timeline Maps

Timeline maps are a way of helping clients to map out their histories, and can be used at the beginning of pluralistic therapy to develop a deeper and more coherent understanding of the client’s life.

Associated Tools and Measures

Goals

Click here for a systematic review of goal measures for counselling and psychotherapy.

Goal-based outcomes An easy to use goals form for use with children and young people.

Personal Project Analysis A goal elicitation and analysis method developed by Brian Little within the psychological field. 

Systematic feedback

Better Outcomes Now  A feedback system developed by Barry Duncan to monitor outcomes and processes in therapy. Costs apply.

Pragmatic Tracker  A comprehensive, accessible, and user-friendly cloud based outcome tracking tool. Costs apply.

Therapeutic relationship

Working Alliance Inventory Information on how to access and download the most widely used therapeutic relationship measure.

Alliance Negotiation Scale  Research paper reporting the development of a process measure that specific assesses the degree of counsellor–client negotiation and openness.

Relational Depth Frequency Scale (client version)Download
Relational Depth Frequency Scale (therapist version)Download
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Recent Posts
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  • A response to Ong, Murphy, and Joseph regarding Cooper and McLeod’s exposition of pluralistic practice November 9, 2022
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  • Pluralistic Practice: A Medical Anthropology Perspective July 22, 2022
  • Introducing ‘pluralistic sand-tray therapy’: Humanistic principles for working creatively with adult clients July 19, 2022
  • New edition of Pluralistic Counselling and Psychotherapy: Call for Feedback and Suggestions July 6, 2022
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