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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade ReviewIntelligent, skilled, inspiring therapists offer chapters that teach us not only how to be therapists working with those at the 'difficult edge' but how to be better therapists with all our clients. This book gives us deep understanding of often misunderstood clients and the therapist's inner dialogue in connecting with them. Charles O'Leary, author of The Practice of Person-Centred Couple and Family Therapy;This book identifies the challenges of contact with certain client groups and particular 'difficult edges'. Throughout, the contributors hold the notion of empathy as a guiding light; both explicitly and implicitly documenting the profound impact of understanding and acceptance on others and self. Sheila Haugh, Associate Lecturer, Prague College of Psychosocial Studies, Czech Republic; Lecturer, Metanoia Institute, London, UK;... I feel this book has much to offer both the experienced person-centred practitioner, the student exploring a wider application of person-centred therapy, as well as practitioners from other modalities wishing to find out more... I strongly recommend you read it ofr yourself in its entirely! Reviewed in BAPCA's Person-Centred Quarterly, November 2014 by Claire Thomas;This is for me a joyful book, in that it recognisis and celebrates the effectiveness of person-centred practice in areas that may traditionally have been the preserve of psychiatry, or focused on stabilisation and support rather than the facilitation of growth. Mike Gallant, Senior Teaching Fellow (Counselling & Psychotherapy), Warwick University. Reviewed in Therapy Today, December 2014
Table of ContentsPart 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
