Developing Person-Centred Counselling

Informationen zum Autor Dave Mearns is formerly Director of the Counselling Unit and Professor of Counselling at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Dave is author or co-author of four other counselling books published by SAGE: Person-Centred Counselling in Action, Second Edition, Experiences of Counselling in Action, Person-Centred Counselling Training and Person-Centred Therapy Today: New Frontiers in Theory and Practice .   Klappentext Developing Person-Centred Counselling,Second Edition is designed to help counsellors improve their skills within the person-centred approach. With chapters on growth and transference, the book covers the subjects which are central to person-centred training. The book is supported by case material and examples from practice. Zusammenfassung Developing Person-Centred Counselling!Second Edition is designed to help counsellors improve their skills within the person-centred approach. With chapters on growth and transference! the book covers the subjects which are central to person-centred training. The book is supported by case material and examples from practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction PART ONE: EXTENDING THE THERAPEUTIC CONDITIONS Don¿t Confuse Unconditional Positive Regard with `Liking¿ Offering the Client an Engagement at `Relational Depth¿ What Is Involved in Offering Wider Contracts to Clients? Extend the Core Conditions to the Whole of Your Client - Introducing `Configurations¿ of Self Don¿t Get `Hooked on Growth¿ PART TWO: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNSELLOR Counsellor `Paralysis¿ Diagnosis and Treatment Beware of the Need to Appear `Clever¿ `Burn-Out¿ and How to Avoid It Personal Therapy Is Not Enough What to Do If You Are Not Perfect Using the Large Unstructured Group to Develop Congruence in Person-Centred Training Developing a Spiritual Discipline - with Brian Thorne PART THREE: THE THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE You Do Not Need to Be an `Expert¿ on the Client Group or Issue to Work Expertly with the Client Be `Beside¿ the Client, but Not `on the Side of¿ the Client Getting beyond `Transference¿ Brief Companionship - with Brian Thorne Becoming Aware of the `Unspoken Relationship¿ between Counsellor and Client Tapping the `Unspoken Relationship¿ between Counsellor and Client PART FOUR: THE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS Getting the `Power Dynamic¿ Right Let the Client¿s Locus of Evaluation Be the Guide to Your Working Assisting the Client¿s Focusing Be Aware of and Beware the Dynamics of Self-Concept Change Confronting the Client Trouble-Shooting `Stuckness¿ within the Therapeutic Process PART FIVE: PERSON-CENTRED PSYCHOPATHOLOGY The Person-Centred Perspective on Psychopathology - with Elke Lambers The Neurotic Client Borderline Personality Disorder - with Elke Lambers Psychosis - with Elke Lambers Personality Disorder - with Elke Lambers An Introduction to Client-Centred Pre-Therapy - with Dion Van Werde Dealing with the Possibility of Psychotic Content in a Seemingly Congruent Communication - with Dion Van Werde ...

List of contents

Introduction
PART ONE: EXTENDING THE THERAPEUTIC CONDITIONS
Don't Confuse Unconditional Positive Regard with `Liking'
Offering the Client an Engagement at `Relational Depth'
What Is Involved in Offering Wider Contracts to Clients?
Extend the Core Conditions to the Whole of Your Client - Introducing `Configurations' of Self
Don't Get `Hooked on Growth'
PART TWO: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNSELLOR
Counsellor `Paralysis'
Diagnosis and Treatment
Beware of the Need to Appear `Clever'
`Burn-Out' and How to Avoid It
Personal Therapy Is Not Enough
What to Do If You Are Not Perfect
Using the Large Unstructured Group to Develop Congruence in Person-Centred Training
Developing a Spiritual Discipline - with Brian Thorne
PART THREE: THE THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE
You Do Not Need to Be an `Expert' on the Client Group or Issue to Work Expertly with the Client
Be `Beside' the Client, but Not `on the Side of' the Client
Getting beyond `Transference'
Brief Companionship - with Brian Thorne
Becoming Aware of the `Unspoken Relationship' between Counsellor and Client
Tapping the `Unspoken Relationship' between Counsellor and Client
PART FOUR: THE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS
Getting the `Power Dynamic' Right
Let the Client's Locus of Evaluation Be the Guide to Your Working
Assisting the Client's Focusing
Be Aware of and Beware the Dynamics of Self-Concept Change
Confronting the Client
Trouble-Shooting `Stuckness' within the Therapeutic Process
PART FIVE: PERSON-CENTRED PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
The Person-Centred Perspective on Psychopathology - with Elke Lambers
The Neurotic Client
Borderline Personality Disorder - with Elke Lambers
Psychosis - with Elke Lambers
Personality Disorder - with Elke Lambers
An Introduction to Client-Centred Pre-Therapy - with Dion Van Werde
Dealing with the Possibility of Psychotic Content in a Seemingly Congruent Communication - with Dion Van Werde

Report

`This is a useful book for those who use person-centred counselling in their practice, or who are training to become person-centred counsellors' - Counselling and Psychotherapy, the Journal of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

Product details

• Authors: Dave Mearns
• Assisted by: Dave Mearns (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.11.2002
• EAN: 9780761949695
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-4969-5
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Developing Counselling Series; Developing Counselling series
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics