| Person-Centred Counselling: An Experiential Approach Contributor(s): Rennie, David L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0761953450 ISBN-13: 9780761953456 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $69.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1998 Annotation: This book contains powerful new ideas about person-centered theory and practice. Supported by intensive qualitative research into the client?'s experience of counseling, Person Centered Counselling highlights the significance and pervasiveness of reflexivity??defined as self-awareness and agency within that self-awareness??and explores surprising ways in which clients contribute reflexively to the counseling process. Vivid examples highlight activities, show the therapy in action, and illustrate how counselors can use their own experiences creatively to facilitate their attunement to themselves, their clients, and their relationships with them. The theoretical framework of the book covers matters such as the use of images and metaphor, counselor transparency and the assistance of clients?? agency, while emphasis is placed on the client/counselor relationship through such crucial areas as the working alliance, power dynamics, and metacommunication. This volume is highly practical with language that is connected closely with the thoughts, feelings, and actions of clients, counselors and counselor trainees. The concepts it applies have implications for all levels of practice and all forms not only of person-centered and experiential counseling but many other approaches to counseling and therapy as well. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Humanistic - Medical | Mental Health - Psychology | Psychotherapy - Counseling |
| Dewey: 158 |
| LCCN: 97-062420 |
| Series: Mechanics |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.24" W x 8.74" (0.48 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |
Contributor Bio(s): Rennie, David L.: - 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). |