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Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy
Published in: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy 4/2018

01-12-2018 | Book Review

Mick Cooper and Duncan Law (Eds.): Working with Goals in Psychotherapy and Counselling

Oxford University Press, 2018, 215 pp, $40 USD, £29.99 (Paperback)

Author: Julia M. DiFilippo

Published in: Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy | Issue 4/2018

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In Working with Goals in Psychotherapy and Counselling, British editors Mick and Duncan Law feature the expertise of 22 additional authors on a range of important topics related to goals in treatment. Each of the book’s nine main chapters begins with stated goals and ends with questions for reflection. Chapters include philosophical, conceptual, and ethical perspectives on working with goals in therapy; a practice-friendly review of the psychology of goals; using goals in therapy from the point of view of people with lived experience in treatment; goals and psychotherapy research; measuring outcomes using goals; identifying ‘good’ goals in psychotherapy and counseling; goal-oriented practice; and use of goals across theoretical orientations. …
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Title
Mick Cooper and Duncan Law (Eds.): Working with Goals in Psychotherapy and Counselling
Oxford University Press, 2018, 215 pp, $40 USD, £29.99 (Paperback)
Author
Julia M. DiFilippo
Publication date
01-12-2018
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy / Issue 4/2018
Print ISSN: 0022-0116
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3564
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10879-018-9394-y

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