Person-Centred Counselling: An Experiential Approach / Edition 1

by David L. Rennie

Overview

'This book offers a truly engaging "read ". The writing style is good and it gives the reader a wide range of perspectives, from the meta-theoretical to the concrete practical experience of clients and counsellors... David Rennie's book serves to continue the development as well as the exposition of the person-centred approach to counselling' - British Journal of Guidance and Counselling

'This is a very good book... clearly within the humanistic//experiential tradition... It seems to me to be very important that this kind of research continues - it is the raw data of the counselling profession' - Person-Centred Practice

This book contains powerful new ideas about person-centred th

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761953456
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/21/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

David L Rennie is Professor of Psychology at York University in Canada. He has extensive experience in counselling practice, instruction, supervision and research. He is the co-editor of Psychotherapy Process Research: Paradigmatic and Narrative Approaches (SAGE, 1992).

Table of Contents

Situating the Approach
The Client as Agent
The First Meeting
Basic Attending Skills
Vivid Language
Liberating the Secondary Stream of Consciousness
Transparency in the Relationship with the Client
Process Identification and Process Direction
Metacommunication
Tying It All Together
The Working Alliance
Training
Conclusion