CREST Roehampton

31/10/2024

Pluralistic perspectives on coaching. A new dialogue with experienced coach and podcast host, Yannick Jacob

Join podcast host Yannick Jacob for an insightful conversation with Mick Cooper, an internationally recognised authority in counselling and psychotherapy. In...

31/10/2024

Pluralistic and Person-Centred Approaches: a chance to discuss and explore the interfaces.

Really looking forward to this - open to add to attend

Seminar presented by Professor Mick Cooper, School of Psychology, University of Roehampton

30/10/2024

'The continually deteriorating climate will bring about increasing psychological distress, with knock-on effects on the ability of that person, or their entire community, to function effectively. But we also know that with the right therapeutic support and effective visible action from credible political leaders climate distress can be tackled.'

Open Letter to Parliamentarians from the Climate Minds Coalition, that I'm very proud to have been involved in. Please do distribute to your networks.

In sharing this open letter, we seek to bring to attention the scale of climate distress in the UK and the interconnections between public health and social wellbeing on decarbonisation efforts, environmental policy, and broader societal stability.

28/10/2024

What are brave spaces? A really important talking coming up this Friday at TASC Network

Brave Space: Sharing Time, Talk and Silences, A TaSC Seminar with Dr. Francesca Bernardi

28/10/2024

What do school staff think of school counselling?

New open access paper showing that:

A positive impact of counselling was perceived for most students; however, it was not viewed as a suitable intervention for all students. Counselling should be offered alongside other mental health interventions within schools.

To promote engagement, school counselling services and counsellors should be fully integrated into pastoral teams and awareness of the service should be raised within schools. This will ensure visibility and promote student engagement with the service.

Policy and funding decisions should consider increasing mental health support provision in secondary schools to ensure equality across schools to meet rising mental health needs. School counselling should be offered as part of a wider suite of interventions.

Introduction This research explored the views of staff in secondary schools on school counselling for young people. Data were drawn from the Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness Trial of Humanistic ...

17/10/2024

This is the third dialogue between myself and person-centred therapist and trainer, Chris Molyneux, about the relationship between person-centred and pluralistic approaches.

In the dialogue, we explore the question of what 'person-centred' really means. Is it, as Chris suggests, an approach that is based around the 'six conditions', or are multiple definitions legitimate? Who gets to define what is 'person-centred', on what grounds, and what are the implications of this for the approach? And we also talk more about the nuances of the pluralistic approach and the importance of being precise in discussing it: in particular, the distinction between a pluralistic philosophical outlook and a pluralistic practice.

There's agreement and disagreement, challenges, and exploration of personal histories and 'triggers'. And we don't come to any definite conclusions. Through the dialogical process, though, I think we lay out more clearly what some of the key issues are.

This is the third dialogue with person-centred therapist and trainer, Chris Molyneux, about the relationship between person-centred and pluralistic approache...

16/10/2024

Delighted to finally get my hands on the new, third edition of our Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling. Started the project almost 20 years ago with the late great Peter Schmid and Maureen OHara, and so pleased to have Gina Di Malta, Yana Gololob, and Susan Stephen to be taking it forward. The book seems to be getting bigger and bigger, but some great new chapters, and love the cover.

03/10/2024

Help with Therapies

I am currently in the process, with a designer colleague, of developing an infographic for prospective clients to learn about the different kinds of therapy. If you have a few minutes to spare, we would be very grateful if you could take the survey below. Shouldn't be more than five minutes or so and hopefully will be a bit interesting: about mapping the main therapeutic orientations on their levels of directivity, and past/present focus.

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27/09/2024

Researcher Post: Therapy Preference Research

We have a very exciting half-time researcher post coming up (16 months fixed term) to work with us on the development of a therapy preference measure for young people. Closing date for applications, 15th Oct. We're looking for someone with an interest in therapeutic work with young people, experience of therapy research, and excellent organisation and interpersonal skills. Link below and if you'd like to discuss further, email me at: mick.cooper@roehampton.ac.uk

To ensure your application form does not corrupt, please do not include any umlauts, accents or other diacritical marks within your application form.

24/09/2024

What is the relationship between pluralism and person-centred therapy? Can they be combined and, indeed, what do we mean by 'person-centred' and 'pluralistic' approaches?

In this follow-up dialogue with person-centred therapist and trainer Chris Molyneux, we delve deeper into the relationship between pluralistic and person-centred perspectives and practices: How do they integrate, how do they differ, and what is the dividing line that separates them, if any?

Can pluralism be part of a person-centred approach, or are they distinctive philosophies and practices? How do we define these approaches, and what are at th...

23/09/2024

We have a super TASC Network talk this coming Friday: counsellor and councillor Claudia Turbet-Delof presenting on bringing humanity back into politics. Claudia is on Hackney council, as well as being a person-centred therapist, and brings these two areas together with passion and immense energy. Not to be missed!

Bringing Humanity Back to Politics, A TaSC Seminar with Claudia Turbet-Delof

03/09/2024

Claudia Turbet-Delof is a uniquely inspiring and passionate speaker on the need to integrate therapy and social change. More uniquely, she is both a person-centred counsellor and a Hackney councillor!

Claudia is coming to talk to us at the Therapy and Social Change at the end of Sept. Free, but please sign up via the link below.

Bringing Humanity Back to Politics, A TaSC Seminar with Claudia Turbet-Delof