Person-Centred Counselling: An Experiential Approach

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SAGE, May 21, 1998 - Psychology - 153 pages
`This book offers a truly engaging "read". The writing style is good and it gives the reader a wide range of perspectives, from the meta-theoretical to the concrete practical experience of clients and counsellors... David Rennie's book serves to continue the development as well as the exposition of the person-centred approach to counselling' - British Journal of Guidance and Counselling

`This is a very good book... clearly within the humanistic//experiential tradition... It seems to me to be very important that this kind of research continues - it is the raw data of the counselling profession' - Person-Centred Practice

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Contents

Situating the Approach
1
The Client as Agent
13
The First Meeting 22 2 223
22
Basic Attending Skills
32
Liberating the Secondary Stream of Consciousness
44
Transparency in the Relationship with the Client
60
Process Identification and Process Direction
71
Metacommunication 888
89
the Working Alliance
102
Training
126
Conclusion
143
References
144
Subject index
151
Author index 154
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David L Rennie is Professor of Psychology at York University in Canada. He has extensive experience in counselling practice, instruction, supervision and research. He is the co-editor of Psychotherapy Process Research: Paradigmatic and Narrative Approaches (SAGE, 1992).

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