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Dr Heward Wilkinson – “Short Term Fixes, versus Long-Term Navel Gazing” Is there still a place for long-term relationship based work in psychotherapy and counselling in today’s world?
Tuesday 13th February 2018 @ 7:45 pm - 9:15 pm
Today’s dominant understanding of psychotherapy and counselling is increasingly based on technologies of intervention, according to a programmatic or manualised model. A relationship based understanding of psychotherapy and counselling, implemented over the longer term, appears increasingly superseded by what are claimed as more cost-effective evidence-based technologies of intervention. Is there still a case for these long-term approaches in today’s world? I shall explore two dimensions of such a case:
- the therapeutic value (and the grounds for it) of long-term narrative-relational work, with no fixed agenda in advance, where there is genuine client need for it;
- a case for longer term work in terms of cost-effectiveness, by contrast with repeated hospitalisation or descent into poverty and social incompetence.
Dr Heward Wilkinson, BA, MA, MSc Psychotherapy, D. Psychotherapy (b. 1945 and married), UKCP Fellow, Integrative Psychotherapist, is now trainer with Scarborough Counselling and Psychotherapy Training Institute, (a MO of UKCP), and Guest Faculty Member with the Living Institute, Toronto, Canada. He is author of The Muse as Therapist: A New Poetic Paradigm for Psychotherapy, Co-Editor of two UKCP book series books, and was Senior Editor of International Journal of Psychotherapy, from 1994-2004. Previous Board Member of UKCP, EAP, he is Vice President of the European Association for Integrative Psychotherapy (EAIP). Editor of the Leavis Society Newsletter, his current field of enquiry is the understanding of Historicity/Historical Consciousness as primary paradigms for human existence. http://hewardwilkinson.co.uk hewardwilkinson@gmail.com