Developing Person-Centred Counselling by Dave Mearns

Developing Person-Centred Counselling by Dave Mearns

The SAGE Publications Person-Centred Counselling Package 4 volume set: £59.95 Individual price £69.96 - Save £10.01 All the books you will need for your person-centred courses in one discounted package. - Person-Centred Therapy Today New Frontiers in Theory and Practice Dave Mearns : Strathclyde University, Brian Thorne : University of East Anglia Individual price: £ 17.99 `At the risk of being directive, I would say you should buy this book. It contains some of the most stimulating and refreshing ideas to have emerged in the person-centred literature since On Becoming a Person′ - Person-Centred Practice - Person-Centred Counselling in Action Second Edition Dave Mearns : Strathclyde University, Brian Thorne : University of East Anglia Individual price: £ 15.99 `The discussion of empathy, acceptance and congruence is central and should be required reading for all trainees working to understand the richness of these core concepts... outstanding′ - Counselling and Psychotherapy, The Journal of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - Person-Centred Counselling Training Dave Mearns : Strathclyde University Individual price: £ 18.99 `If you run a course of person-centred counselling training, or are thinking about it, or are a student on a person-centred course, you should buy this book. It is the first dedicated to person-centred training, and it is written by one of the very few people in the country who could have presented such complex material so comprehensively and with such clarity′ - Person-Centred Practice - Developing Person-Centred Counselling Dave Mearns : Strathclyde University Individual price: £ 16.99 `This is a useful book for those who use person-centred counselling in their practice, or who are training to become person-centred counsellors′ - Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, The Journal of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Offer expires 30th September 2002 `I found myself fascinated, riveted by the accessibility of the prose and format, and, most importantly, splendidly re-engaged with the person-centred approach... The book will prove most useful to practitioners and students of the person-centred approach to counselling, but those from other orientations might also be agreeably surprised by its depth and by Mearns′, dare I say, analytical approach to his subject. I found his style of writing intelligent and clearly set out and, whilst thoroughly academic, it included lots of good clinical evidence and cameos... there is nothing vague or highly idealised, but rather a set of clear thinking, rigorous chapters that make it a most worthwhile addition to the current counselling literature′ - Self & Society Crucial areas such as the therapeutic alliance and process, the development of the counsellor and the person-centred perspective in relation to psychopathology are examined in this volume. An introduction focuses on the importance of training in depth, expressing caution about adopting the more advanced methods illustrated in the book without rigorous preparation, and provides a summary of the central features of person-centred counselling. Following on from this, the volume′s 30 sections are organized into six categories, each of which will help practising counsellors improve their skills within the person-centred approach.

`Each chapter has a key point pr[ac]ecis which acts as an excellent aide memoireThroughout the book, the author includes snippets from actual case histories which elucidate his theme... Some of this book exposes new territory in person-centred counselling while other parts introduce the reader to the very latest issues tackled in intensive person-centred counselling training... This is a useful book for those who use person-centred counselling in their practice, or who are training to become person-centred counsellors′ - Counselling, The Journal of the British Association for Counselling

`Simply stated and reliable... each of the 30 chapters is brief, punchy, illustrated with examples and punctuated with a short summary box. The coverage of the book is broad... [it] is written for training and practising person-centred counsellors, for whom many of the issues covered will be personally and clinically relevant′ - Clinical Psychology Forum

`I found myself fascinated, riveted by the accessibility of the prose and format, and, most importantly, splendidly re-engaged with the person-centred approach... The book will prove most useful to practitioners and students of the person-centred approach to counselling, but those from other orientations might also be agreeably surprised by its depth and by Mearns′, dare I say, analytical approach to his subject. I found his style of writing intelligent and clearly set out and, whilst thoroughly academic, it included lots of good clinical evidence and cameos... there is nothing vague or highly idealised, but rather a set of clear thinking, rigorous chapters that make it a most worthwhile addition to the current counselling literature′ - Self & Society

Dave Mearns is formerly Director of the Counselling Unit and Professor of Counselling at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Dave is author or co-author of four other counselling books published by SAGE: Person-Centred Counselling in Action, Second Edition, Experiences of Counselling in Action, Person-Centred Counselling Training and Person-Centred Therapy Today: New Frontiers in Theory and Practice.

SKU	GOR001313194
ISBN 13	9780803989825
ISBN 10	0803989822
Title	Developing Person-Centred Counselling
Author	Dave Mearns
Series	Developing Counselling Series
Condition	Good
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sage Publications Ltd
Year published	1994-09-08
Number of pages	176
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