Process Work in Person-Centred Therapy

ISBN-13: 9780230213159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 272 str.

Richard Worsley

Opis

Process work is a key aspect of person-centred therapy.This new edition integrates a variety of theories and approaches to expand upon the Rogerian model, and explores contemporary debate in the area.With new material, revised chapters and useful case studiesthis a key resource for all those working within person-centred therapy."

Spis treści

Preface.- Introduction: Process and Listening.- PART I: ADDRESSING PROCESS WORK.- What is Process in Person-Centred Therapy?.- The Client in Process.- PART II: PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES.- A Phenomenological Approach to Therapy.- Constructing the Self: Narrative and Metaphor in Therapy.- Conditions of Worth in Everyday Life: A Person-Centred Use of Transactional Analysis Theory.- Mirrors of our Being: A Person-Centred Use of Gestalt Theory.- Freeing the Therapist: A Phenomenological Reading of Carl Rogers.- PART III: EXISTENTIAL PERSPECTIVES.- Relating and Existing: Martin Buber's I-Thou Construct for Person-Centred Therapy.- The Existential Dimension: An Ignored Resource of Person-Centred Therapy.- The Spirituality of Counselling: Phenomenology, Existentialism and Beyond.- PART IV: MOVING INTO PROCESS WORK.- Process in High Levels of Distress: Insights for Everyday Work.- A Process Paradigm and 'Hilary': A Case Study of One Moment of Process Work.- Process Work in Practice

O autorze

RICHARD WORSLEY is a person-centred therapist, supervisor and trainer. He was Director of the Diploma in Humanistic Counselling at Tile Hill College, Coventry, UK, as well as an Anglican Priest with long experience of parish life and pastoral care. He is co-author of Person-Centred Psychopathology: A Positive Psychology of Mental Health and Person-Centred Practice: Case Studies in Positive Psychology.

Blurb

This unique and important book breaks new ground in the theory and practice of person-centred psychotherapy by focusing on the issue of process.

Process belongs to both client and counsellor. Worsley conceptualises process in relation to the core principles of the person-centred approach but also to the humanistic and phenomenological roots of person-centred therapy. Combining academic rigour with the wisdom of an experienced clinical practitioner, he opens up a more inclusive and integrative way of being with clients that nonetheless chimes with classical person-centred principles.

The book features:

• Activities and vivid case studies to illustrate and expand on the theoretical points being developed, allowing the reader to see easily how these might apply to practice.
• Engagement with theoretical approaches such as transactional analysis and Gestalt, as well as discussion of philosophy, spirituality and psychopathology.
• New discussion of the processes involved in mental illness, drawing on the work of Prouty and Warner to understand the client's world of experiencing.
• New material on the plural self and configurations of the self.

This is a book aimed principally at university students enrolled on courses in person-centred, humanistic, existential and integrative counselling and psychotherapy. It will also appeal to experienced practitioners wanting to refresh and deepen their understanding.

RICHARD WORSLEY is a person-centred therapist, supervisor and trainer at the University of Warwick, UK. Formerly Director of the Diploma in Humanistic Counselling at Tile Hill College, Coventry, he also has long experience working as an Anglican Priest. He is co-editor with Stephen Joseph of Person-Centred Psychopathology: A Positive Psychology of Mental Health.