Main description:

From the origins of Carl Rogers' person-centred approach to the cutting-edge developments of therapy today, The Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy Handbook charts the journey of an ambitious vision to its successful reality. In this book, Lago and Charura bring together history, theory, research and practice to deliver a complete and unique perspective on the person-centred approach.
Key topics include:
* The groundbreaking journey of PCA's early decades, spearheaded by Carl Rogers* Developments and extensions of the original theory and practice* The influence of PCA in developing new therapies and practice* The frontier of contemporary PCA, and therapists' work with client groups of difference and diversity
With its broad view that explores the origins, variations and applications of PCA, The Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy Handbook gives a comprehensive overview of the knowledge required and the issues faced by practitioners, making it an important resource for the seasoned and training practitioner alike. "This particularly welcome contribution is distinctive in fostering a contemporary, contextualised and transcultural person-centred practice, edited as it is by two leading UK figures in the field of diversity in counselling and psychotherapy."Review in Therapy Today, October 2016

Contents:

Preface

Part One: Origins: The History and Development of the Person Centred Approach (1930's-1980's)

Chapter One: The Phenomenological, Cultural and Historical Antecedents to the Person Centered Approach

Chapter Two: Rogers: Rigour, Research and Recordings

Chapter Three: Rogers' Life Trajectory: Fame, Disappointment and a Movement in Focus

Chapter Four: Tenderness in Person-centred Therapy: A Spiritual Dimension?

Chapter Five: The PCA in other settings

Part Two: Post Rogers: Other contributions to theory and practice of the Person Centred Approach.

Chapter Six: Developing Perspectives and Themes in Person-Centred Theory

Chapter Seven: Configurations of Self: A Person Centred Perspective

Chapter Eight: Relational Depth: Theory, Research and Practice

Chapter Nine: Psychopathology and the Person-Centred Perspective

Chapter Ten: Difficult Process: Working with Fragile and Dissociated Client Experience

Chapter Eleven: Working with Complex Trauma & Dissociation: Towards an Integration of Person-Centred Perspectives with other Theoretical Approaches

Chapter Twelve: Journey to the Heart of Person-Centered Psychotherapy: A Belief in Clients' Self-Righting Capacities

Chapter Thirteen: Critiques of Person-Centred Theory - From Within and from Outside the Person-Centred Nation

Chapter Fifteen: Group Therapy and therapeutic groups

Part Three: The Emergence of the 'Tribes': New theoretical paradigms, practices and research outcomes

Chapter Sixteen: Emerging Tribes and New Paradigms

Chapter Seventeen: Pre-Therapy and working on contact

Chapter Eighteen: 'Focusing' and 'Experiencing': Gendlin's early contribution to Client-Centred Theory and its implicatiofor practice

Chapter Nineteen: Cutting Edge Person Centred Expressive Arts

Chapter Twenty: Emotion-Focussed Therapy

Chapter Twenty One: Research On Person-Centred-Experiential Psychotherapy and Counselling: Summary of the Main Findings

Part Four: Difference, Diversity and Future Challenges.

Chapter Twenty Two: Exploring applications of the Person Centred Approach in a Middle Eastern context: Emerging theoretical and practice considerations

Chapter Twenty Three: The White Therapist: Privilege and Power

Chapter Twenty Four: Disfigurement, Disability and Diversity: Addressing the visible and invisible challenges to the Person Centred Therapist of these dimensions of client presentation

Chapter Twenty Five: Challenges to Person Centred Theory and Practice from the Perspective of the Therapist from Minority Groups within Society

Chapter Twenty Seven: On Becoming a Person Centred Therapist for these Contemporary Times: Suggestions for Professional Development in the Context of Diversity

Part Five: Person Centred and Experiential Psychotherapies: Current Positioning and Future Possibilities.

Chapter Twenty Eight: Identity Aspects of the Person Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy Family

Chapter Twenty Nine: Person Centred Futures: Surveying the Landscape