Person-Centred Counselling Psychology
eBook - ePub

Person-Centred Counselling Psychology

An Introduction

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Person-Centred Counselling Psychology

An Introduction

About this book

?Not only is this the first key text on person-centred counselling psychology, but one of the best introductions to the approach. Gillon combines an in-depth understanding of the person-centred field with a highly accessible writing style to produce a book that will be of enormous value to anyone wanting to practice person-centred therapy. Essential reading for trainee and practising counselling psychologists with an interest in the person-centred approach and highly recommended for counsellors and psychotherapists of all orientations? - Mick Cooper, Professor of Counselling, Counselling Unit, University of Strathclyde

Person-Centred Counselling Psychology: An Introduction 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

o unconditional positive regard

o empathy

o congruence.

The book 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 the approach?s research tradition as well as considering key issues for those wishing to train and work as a person-centred practitioner. As such, it is designed to be an applied, accessible text, providing a dialogue between the psychological basis of person-centred therapy and its application within the real world.

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 Director of The Edinburgh Psychology Centre and Lecturer in Counselling Psychology at Glasgow Caledonian University.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 The History and Development of the Person-centred Approach
  8. 2 A Person-centred Theory of Personality and Individual Difference
  9. 3 A Person-centred Theory of Psychological Therapy
  10. 4 Facilitating a Process of Change: Person-centred Counselling Psychology in Action
  11. 5 The Person-centred Approach and the Four Paradigms of Counselling Psychology
  12. 6 Person-centred Therapy and Contemporary Practice in Mental Health: Working with Distress
  13. 7 Research and the Person-centred Approach
  14. 8 Social Constructionism and the Person-centred Approach
  15. 9 Training as a Person-centred Practitioner
  16. References
  17. Index