Person-Centred Counselling: An Experiential Approach`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 This book contains powerful new ideas about person-centred th |
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 |
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