Full Description
This book presents accounts of the practice of the person-centred approach (PCA) with people suffering from a range of severe and enduring conditions. Comprehensively refuting the notion that person-centred therapy is suitable only for the 'worried well', it backs up contemporary practice with appropriate theory. For students, academic and professional audiences. Contributions include: Person-centred therapy with post-traumatic stress (Stephen Joseph and David Murphy); Tenuous contact - Person-centred therapy with adolescent process (Peter Pearce and Ros Sewell); Pre-Therapy with psychotic clients (Dion van Werde); Refutation of myths of inappropriateness of person-centered therapy at the difficult edge (Lisbeth Sommerbeck); Difficult processes (Margaret Warner) and several other chapters from leading theorists and practitioners.
Contents
Part 1: Practice1 Understanding posttraumatic stress and facilitating posttraumatic growth David Murphy and Stephen Joseph2 Person-centred therapy with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse Jan Hawkins3 Person-centred therapy with people with learning disabilities: Happy people wear hats Jan Hawkins4 'Tenuous contact': New theory about adolescent process Peter Pearce and Ros Sewell 5 Pre-Therapy at its edges: From palliative care to exercising newly recoveredcontact functioning Dion Van Werde 6 Combining person-centred therapy and Pre-Therapy with clients at the difficult edge Lisbeth Sommerbeck 7 A person-centred approach to counselling clients with autistic process Anja Rutten 8 Person-centred therapy for people with dementia Danuta Lipinska 9 Pre-Therapy and dementia - the opportunity to put Person-Centred theory into everyday practice Penny Dodds, Pamela Bruce-Hay and Sally Stapleton Part 2: Conceptualisations that support practice 10 Client processes at the difficult edge Margaret Warner 11 The relation between intersubjectivity, imitation, mirror neurons, empathy and Pre-Therapy Hans Peters 12 Refutation of myths of inappropriateness of person-centred therapy at the difficult edge Lisbeth SommerbeckPart 3: Research that supports practice 14 An investigation of the effectiveness of person-centred therapy for 'psychotic' processes in adult clients Wendy Traynor 15 Pre-Therapy process and outcome: A review of research instruments and findings Mathias Dekeyser, Garry Prouty and Robert Elliott
