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Person-Centred Counselling Psychology is an introduction to the philosophy, theory and practice of the person-centred approach. Focusing on the psychological underpinnings of the approach, Ewan Gillon describes the theory of personality on which it is based and the nature of the therapeutic which is characterised by:
unconditional positive regard; empathy; congruence.
The book is an applied, accessible text, providing a dialogue between the psychological basis of person-centred therapy and its application within real world. It shows how the person-centred approach relates to others within counselling psychology and to contemporary practices in mental health generally. It also gives guidance to readers on how to research, train and work as a person-centred practitioner.
As well as psychology students, it will be of interest to those from other disciplines, counselling trainees, those within the caring professions, and person-centred therapists from a non-psychological background.
Ewan Gillon is Lecturer in Psychology, Glasgow Caledonian University in the U.K.
A Person-Centred Theory of Psychological Therapy
A Person-Centred Theory of Psychological Therapy
Introduction
As we saw in the previous chapter, Rogers’ (1959) theory of personality posited incongruence between organismic experiencing and the self-concept as the sole cause of all psychological disturbance. Following on from such a view, it is the reduction of incongruence that is associated with greater psychological well-being and, as such, provides the rationale for a person-centred approach to psychological therapy. In this chapter we shall explore the person-centred therapeutic approach, highlighting how it works to reduce incongruence in the ways initially described by Rogers (1957), as well as those subsequently developed by others within the framework (e.g. ‘experiential’ practitioners)
A Theory of Therapy
Since first outlining his ideas for psychotherapy in the early 1940s, Carl Rogers ...
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