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
Preface
Part One: Origins: The History and Development of the Person Centred Approach (1930's-1980's)
1. The Phenomenological, Cultural and Historical Antecedents to the Person Centered Approach
2. Rogers: Rigour, Research and Recordings
3. Rogers' Life Trajectory: Fame, Disappointment and a Movement in Focus
4. Tenderness in Person-centred Therapy: A Spiritual Dimension?
5. The PCA in other settings
Part Two: Post Rogers: Other contributions to theory and practice of the Person Centred Approach.
6. Developing Perspectives and Themes in Person-Centred Theory
7. Configurations of Self: A Person Centred Perspective
8. Relational Depth: Theory, Research and Practice
9. Psychopathology and the Person-Centred Perspective
10. Difficult Process: Working with Fragile and Dissociated Client Experience
11. Working with Complex Trauma & Dissociation: Towards an Integration of Person-Centred Perspectives with other Theoretical Approaches
12. Journey to the Heart of Person-Centered Psychotherapy: A Belief in Clients' Self-Righting Capacities
13. Critiques of Person-Centred Theory - From Within and from Outside the Person-Centred Nation
14. Person-centred couple and family therapy
15. Group Therapy and therapeutic groups
Part Three: The Emergence of the 'Tribes': New theoretical paradigms, practices and research outcomes
16. Emerging Tribes and New Paradigms
17. Pre-Therapy and working on contact
18. 'Focusing' and 'Experiencing': Gendlin's early contribution to Client-Centred Theory and its implicatiofor practice
19. Cutting Edge Person Centred Expressive Arts
20. Emotion-Focussed Therapy
21. Research On Person-Centred-Experiential Psychotherapy and Counselling: Summary of the Main Findings
Part Four: Difference, Diversity and Future Challenges.
22. Exploring applications of the Person Centred Approach in a Middle Eastern context: Emerging theoretical and practice considerations
23. The White Therapist: Privilege and Power
24. Disfigurement, Disability and Diversity: Addressing the visible and invisible challenges to the Person Centred Therapist of these dimensions of client presentation
25. Challenges to Person Centred Theory and Practice from the Perspective of the Therapist from Minority Groups within Society
26. Thinking about the other: conversations and context
27. 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.
28. Identity Aspects of the Person Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy Family
29. Person Centred Futures: Surveying the Landscape
