The Therapeutic Encounter: A Cross-Modality Approach - Softcover

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David Bott is Director of Studies in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Brighton. His initial background was in social theory. An early post with responsibility for providing training for health and social services across London opened an interest in humanistic principles and practice leading to a number of trainings. Subsequently, he undertook full-time clinical study of Family Systemic Therapy at the University of London Institute of Psychiatry working both in the Maudsley Hospital and the Department of Child and Family Psychiatry at King College Hospital. As an academic at the University of Brighton, he has published a number of papers which examine the relationship between therapeutic theories and models from a systemic/social constructionist perspective. In addition to his academic responsibilities, David is a UKCP registered systemic psychotherapist in independent practice.

Pam Howard is responsible for the masters programme in counselling and psychotherapy at the University of Brighton and is a UKCP registered Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. She began her academic career as a psychoanalytic theorist and this led to undertaking a clinical training at the Guild of Psychotherapists. She has lectured on aspects of psychoanalytic theory and practice for a number of years in higher education. As first Chief Executive of the UK Council of Psychotherapy, she spent a decade heavily involved in the professionalization and regulation of psychotherapy and subsequently held the Chair of the Universities Psychotherapy and Counselling Association. At the University of Brighton her publications have centred on aspects of the psychoanalytic therapeutic relationship.

Together with colleagues, they have developed an approach to counselling and psychotherapy training founded upon the principle of respectful co-existence between disparate approaches. Here, cross-modality dialogue is a central feature of the learning.

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Focusing on the client-therapist relationship at the core of counselling & psychotherapy practice, this book introduces a model effective across all therapeutic approaches. It provides a cross-modality framework for practice by engaging the trainee directly in the drama of the therapeutic encounter.