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Published UK, 2010
This practical book outlines the essential principles and practices of couple counselling. Demystifying this form of therapy, Martin Payne provides a step-by-step guide from the first meeting through to subsequent sessions. The book includes case examples, student exercises, points for reflection and memory-jog pages to use in practice. As well as chapters illustrating counselling for problems frequently experienced by couples, such as sexual difficulties, infidelity, violence and abuse, key content includes:

+  Cultural differences in couples work
+  Varieties of committed relationships
+  Responses to specific difficulties
+  Ethical issues that arise as a result of working with two people
+  Gender differences in relation to the counsellor's own sexuality and/or gender
+  Persons' narratives as a basis for change

This book comprises a sound basis for one-to-one practitioners wishing to expand their expertise and practice of therapy into working with couples, and for students training in this mode of counselling

Paperback. 200 pages