Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy Handbook: Origins, Developments and Current Applications

Divine Charura is a senior lecturer in psychotherapy at Leeds Beckett University, UK.He is also a UKCP registered Psychotherapist and Supervisor, and an author andeditor of several psychotherapy books, including The Therapeutic Relationship Handbook: Theory and Practice (OpenUniversity Press 2014).Colin Lago is a Fellow of the BACP and works as an independent therapist, havingworked at Sheffield and De Montfort universities since the late 70s. Writingparticularly within the realm of diversity, he has written and edited manytexts over the years, including TheHandbook of Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy (Open UniversityPress 2011).

• PrefacePart One: Origins: The History and Development of the Person Centred Approach (1930’s-1980’s)1. The Phenomenological, Cultural and Historical Antecedents to the Person Centered Approach2. Rogers: Rigour, Research and Recordings3. Rogers’ Life Trajectory: Fame, Disappointment and a Movement in Focus4. Tenderness in Person-centred Therapy: A Spiritual Dimension?  5. The PCA in other settingsPart Two: Post Rogers: Other contributions to theory and practice of the Person Centred Approach.6. Developing Perspectives and Themes in Person-Centred Theory7. Configurations of Self: A Person Centred Perspective8. Relational Depth: Theory, Research and Practice9. Psychopathology and the Person-Centred Perspective10. Difficult Process: Working with Fragile and Dissociated Client Experience11. Working with Complex Trauma & Dissociation: Towards an Integration of Person-Centred Perspectives with other Theoretical Approaches12. Journey to the Heart of Person-Centered Psychotherapy: A Belief in Clients’ Self-Righting Capacities13. Critiques of Person-Centred Theory – From Within and from Outside the Person-Centred Nation14. Person-centred couple and family therapy15. Group Therapy and therapeutic groupsPart Three: The Emergence of the ‘Tribes’: New theoretical paradigms, practices and research outcomes16. Emerging Tribes and New Paradigms17. Pre-Therapy and working on contact18. ‘Focusing’ and ‘Experiencing’: Gendlin’s early contribution to Client-Centred Theory and its implicatiofor practice19. Cutting Edge Person Centred Expressive Arts20. Emotion-Focussed Therapy21. Research On Person-Centred-Experiential Psychotherapy and Counselling: Summary of the Main FindingsPart Four: Difference, Diversity and Future Challenges.22. Exploring applications of the Person Centred Approach in a Middle Eastern context: Emerging theoretical and practice considerations23. The White Therapist: Privilege and Power24. Disfigurement, Disability and Diversity: Addressing the visible and invisible challenges to the Person Centred Therapist of these dimensions of client presentation25. Challenges to Person Centred Theory and Practice from the Perspective of the Therapist from Minority Groups within Society26. Thinking about the other: conversations and context27. On Becoming a Person Centred Therapist for these Contemporary Times: Suggestions for Professional Development in the Context of DiversityPart Five: Person Centred and Experiential Psychotherapies: Current Positioning and Future Possibilities.28. Identity Aspects of the Person Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy Family29. Person Centred Futures: Surveying the Landscape