Person-Centered Practices

Mick Cooper, DPhil, CPsychol, is Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Roehampton, London, United Kingdom. Dr. Cooper is author or editor of a range of texts on person-centered, existential, and relational approaches to therapy, and co-developed the pluralistic approach with John McLeod. He received the Carmi Harari Mid-Career Award from Division 32 (Society for Humanistic Psychology) of the American Psychological Association and is a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and the Academy of Social Sciences.William R. Miller, PhD, is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico. He introduced motivational interviewing in a 1983 article and in the first edition of Motivational Interviewing (1991), coauthored with Stephen Rollnick. Dr. Miller’s research has focused particularly on the treatment and prevention of addictions and more broadly on the psychology of change. He is a recipient of two career achievement awards from the American Psychological Association, the international Jellinek Memorial Award, and an Innovators Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, among many other honors. His publications include dozens of books and over 450 articles and chapters. His website is https://williamrmiller.net.

“Most helping professionals consider themselves 'person-centered.' But what does that mean? This book describes and defines what it means to be person-centered and gives numerous examples of person-centered approaches. Contributors show how Carl Rogers’s seminal insights about helping and human relationships have been extended and applied across a wide variety of helping and public service professions and human relationships. Each chapter is filled with clear explanations, case examples, and the latest relevant research.â€--Howard Kirschenbaum, EdD, Department of Counseling and Human Development (Emeritus), Warner Graduate School of Education, University of Rochester“This book carries forward Carl Rogers’s lifelong conviction that his ideas were never meant to remain on the page, but should be lived, tested, and renewed in the world. Across these chapters, we see the person-centered approach as a vibrant, evolving tradition that continues to show what becomes possible when we take the whole person seriously.â€--Dale G. Larson, PhD, J. Thomas and Kathleen L. McCarthy Professor of Counseling Psychology, Santa Clara University-