The Practice of Collaborative Counseling and Psychotherapy: Developing Skills in Culturally Mindful Helping

Pare, D. A. (2013). The practice of collaborative counseling and psychotherapy: Developing skills in culturally mindful helping. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. ISBN: 978-1-4129-9309-2. 477 pagesABSTRACTThis book provides a clear framework for developing a collaborative counselling approach with clients. Dr. Pare espouses an alternative view of counselling as a conversational practice that considers power, meaning, and social justice when working with rather than working on clients. He delivers tools for practitioners to mindfully step away from deficit-based views of clients toward client agency. This accessible text focuses on building a foundation of collaboration with clients, explores the practice of collaborative meaning making, and provides empowering practices for assessing client concerns and promoting change. Students and practitioners alike will appreciate this guiding compass for the complex counselling conversations that lie ahead.RESUMECet ouvrage fournit un cadre clair et coherent pour le developpement d'une approche collaborative avec les clients. Dr. Pare favorise une autre vue de counseling comme une pratique conversationnelle qui prend en compte le pouvoir, le sens, et la justice sociale en travaillant avec plutot que sur les clients. Il fournit des outils pour les praticiens qui, a la pleine conscience, aimeraient s'eloigner des vues axees sur le deficit du client vers l'habilitation du client. Ce texte accessible se concentre sur la creation d'une base de collaboration avec les clients, explore la pratique de construction de sens en collaboration, et fournit des pratiques autonomisant en evaluant les preoccupations des clients et en facilitant le changement. Les etudiants et les praticiens apprecieront ce compas qui peut servir a orienter les conversations de counseling complexes qui surviennent.The Practice of Collaborative Counseling & Psychotherapy by David Pare is about developing a collaborative counselling approach with clients while forefronting power relations and cultural diversity. The author depicts counselling as conversational, forged only through careful consideration of language and keeping the client at the centre of treatment at all times. The book is intended for counsellors, psychotherapists, counsellor educators, and students-in-training-particularly those appreciative of a contemporary lens that challenges traditional practice and considers meaning-making in talk therapy.Pare is a full professor of educational counselling at the University of Ottawa and has a longstanding relationship with postmodern approaches to therapy and supervision; he has written prolifically in this area, is founder of the Glebe Institute, and has a strong presence advancing collaborative practice in many counselling communi- ties. Inviting the reader to mindfully step away from deficit-based views of clients, Pare heightens our awareness of the often unspoken, less visible processes within the culturally laden dialogue that is counselling.Section 1 orients us to cultural location and therapeutic as a specialized form of talk. In Chapter 1, attention to culture, meaning-making, power, collaborative dialogue, and mindfulness are but a few things that should guide intention. In Chapter 2, the author portrays therapy as conversation, closely examining the way including therapeutic talk, operates to construct meaning and shape experience.Section 2 builds a foundation for collaboration with clients. Counselling is not a technical craft with distinct linear steps. With this premise, the author encourages us to always be with the emerging moment to focus on how conversation can guide us and how trust and rapport make helpful collaborations possible. Chapter 3 is succinctly captured by cant go there (a preferred future) until we are here (the present), as it's currently experienced. It is about centring the client through hospitality, compassion, empathy, listening, transparency, silence, and stillness. …

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