Developing Person-centred Counselling

✍ Scribed by Mearns, Dave.

• Publisher: Sage Publications, Ltd.
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 161
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
Part I: Extending the Therapeutic Conditions
Chapter 1 - Don't confuse unconditional positive regard with 'liking'
Chapter 2 - Offering the Client an engagement at 'relational depth'
Chapter 3 - What is involved in offering wider contracts to clients?
Chapter 4 - Extend the core conditions to the whole of your client - introducing 'configurations' of self
Chapter 5 - Don't get 'hooked on growth'
Part II: The Develpoment of the Counsellor
Chapter 6 - Counsellor 'paralysis': diagnosis and treatment
Chapter 7 - Beware the need to appear 'clever'
Chapter 8 - 'Burn-out' and how to avoid it
Chapter 9 - Personal therapy is not enough
Chapter 10 - What to do if you are not perfect
Chapter 11 - Using the large unstructured group to develop congruence in person-centred training
Chapter 12 - Developing a spiritual discipline
Part III: The Therapeutic Alliance
Chapter 13 - You do not need to be an 'expert' on the client group or issue to work expertly with the client
Chapter 14 - Be 'beside' the client but not 'on the side of' the client
Chapter 15 - Getting beyond 'transference'
Chapter 16 - Brief companionship
Chapter 17 - Becoming aware of the 'unspoken relationship' between counsellor and client
Chapter 18 - Tapping the 'unspoken relationship' between counsellor and client
Part IV: The Therapeutic Process
Chapter 19 - Getting the 'power dynamic' right
Chapter 20 - Let the client's locus of evaluation be the guide of your working
Chapter 21 - Assisting the client's focusing
Chapter 22 - Be aware of and beware thedynamics of self-concept change
Chapter 23 - Confronting the client
Chapter 24 - Trouble-shooting 'struckness' within the therapeutic process
Part V: Person-centred psychopathology
Chapter 25 - The person-centred perspective on psychopathology: the neurotic client
Chapter 26 - Borderline personality disorder
Chapter 27 - Psychosis
Chapter 28 - Personality disorder
Chapter 29 - An introduction to client-centred pre-therapy
Chapter 30 - Dealing with the possibility of psychotic content in a seemingly congruent communication
References
Index