Person-Centred Counselling in Action - Dave Mearns & Brian Thorne
Detailed Description
It is now almost twenty years since the first edition of Person-Centred Counselling in Action appeared. In that time this SAGE bestseller has maintained enormous popularity with trainees and practitioners and has achieved world-wide acclaim.
This substantially revised Third Edition provides an excellent introduction to the theory and practice of person-centred counselling while incorporating exciting new developments in the approach.
Dave Mearns and Brian Thorne have preserved the compelling and accessible style of its predecessors. At the same time they provoke reflection on many of the key issues which concern not only person-centred practitioners but those across the whole counselling and psychotherapy field.
New to this edition is:
the inclusion of "relational depth", a key development for the person-centred approach and counselling generally
extended discussion of the counsellor's use of self
a new chapter containing the authors' answers to frequently-asked-questions
the inclusion of diversity issues covering religion, gender and sexual orientation
further reading suggestions.
Much has changed in the person-centred orientation since the death of Carl Rogers in 1987. Not only have new schools of thought emerged with different emphases and therapeutic possibilities but the authors of this book have themselves been responsible for significant advances in key areas of person-centred theory and practice. These developments are fully reflected in the revised text.
