The Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy Handbook: Origins, Developments and Current Applications

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