Synopses & Reviews
. . . an important contribution to the current literature on a person-centered approach. It demonstrates the increasingly broad and dynamic application of this perspective to a variety of fields. The Family Pscyhologist
Featuring 21 papers by important contributors from academia and clinical practice, this volume examines the major developments in the client-centered approach to therapy which took place in the U.S. and Europe during the 1970's and early 1980's.
Review
This volume is an important contribution to the current literature on a person-centered approach ... a valuable addition to the library of seasoned family psychologists as well as beginning graduate students in marriage and family therapy programs.The Family Psychologist
Synopsis
". . . an important contribution to the current literature on a person-centered approach. It demonstrates the increasingly broad and dynamic application of this perspective to a variety of fields." The Family Pscyhologist
About the Author
RONALD F. LEVANT is Clinical Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology at Boston University.JOHN M. SHLIEN is Professor at Harvard University and well-known for his contributions to the development of the client-centered approach in the late 1950s and 1960s.
Table of Contents
Introduction by John M. Shlien and Ronald F. Levant
Developments in Theory and Research
Section A: The Facilitative Conditions
The Empirical Status of Roger's Hypotheses of the Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Effective Psychotherapy by Neill Watson
Unconditional Positive Regard: A Controversial Basic Attitude in Client-Centered Therapy by Germain Lietaer
Beyond Reflection: Emergent Modes of Empathy by Jerold D. Bozarth
Section B: Experiencing/Focusing
The Clinet's Client: The Edge of Awareness by Eugene T. Gendlin
Section C: The Self-Concept, the Fully Functioning Person, and Client-Centered Therapy Viewed in Relationship to Cognitive and Psychoanalytic Theories
Self-Concept and Identity: Overlapping Portions of a Cognitive Structure of Self by Desmond S. Cartwright and Mary Jane Graham
The Fully Funcioning Person: Theory and Research by Julius Seeman
A Counter-Theory of Transference by John M. Shlien
Developments in Practice
Section A: Individual Psychotherapy
Client Tasks in Client-Centered Therapy by Larua N. Rice
Person-Centered Gestalt: Toward a Holistic Synthesis by Maureen Miller O'Hara
Section B: Family Therapy and Enhancement
The World of Family Relationships: A Person-Centered Systems View by Godfrey T. Barrett-Lennard
From Person to System: Two Perspectives by Ronald F. Levant
Contributions of Client-Centered Therapy to Filial, Marital, and Family Relationship Enhancement Therapies by Bernard G. Guerney, Jr.
Section C: Clinical Supervision
Carl Rogers' Client-Centered Approach to Supervision by Harold Hackney and Rodney K. Goodyear
Section D: Large Groups
Communities for Learning: A Person-Centered Approach by John Keith Wood
Wider Applications of the Person-Centered Approach
Person-Centered Administration in Higher Education by William R. Rogers
The Personal Meaning of Illness: Client-Centered Dimensions of Medicine and Health Care by David Bernard
Rogers' Impact on Pastoral Counseling and Contemporary Religious Reflection by Robert C. Fuller
A Person-Centered Approach to Research by David Mearns and John McLeod
Secrets and the Psychology of Secrecy: Some Preliminary Thoughts by John M. Shlien
Another Necessary Condition
Are We Doomed to Nuclear Planetary Suicide? by Carl R. Rogers and David Ryback
References
Index