Table Of ContentIntroduction by John M. Shlien and Ronald F. Levant Developments in Theory and Research Section A: The Facilitative Conditions The Empirical Status of Roger's Hypotheses of the Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Effective Psychotherapy by Neill Watson Unconditional Positive Regard: A Controversial Basic Attitude in Client-Centered Therapy by Germain Lietaer Beyond Reflection: Emergent Modes of Empathy by Jerold D. Bozarth Section B: Experiencing/Focusing The Clinet's Client: The Edge of Awareness by Eugene T. Gendlin Section C: The Self-Concept, the Fully Functioning Person, and Client-Centered Therapy Viewed in Relationship to Cognitive and Psychoanalytic Theories Self-Concept and Identity: Overlapping Portions of a Cognitive Structure of Self by Desmond S. Cartwright and Mary Jane Graham The Fully Funcioning Person: Theory and Research by Julius Seeman A Counter-Theory of Transference by John M. Shlien Developments in Practice Section A: Individual Psychotherapy Client Tasks in Client-Centered Therapy by Larua N. Rice Person-Centered Gestalt: Toward a Holistic Synthesis by Maureen Miller O'Hara Section B: Family Therapy and Enhancement The World of Family Relationships: A Person-Centered Systems View by Godfrey T. Barrett-Lennard From Person to System: Two Perspectives by Ronald F. Levant Contributions of Client-Centered Therapy to Filial, Marital, and Family Relationship Enhancement Therapies by Bernard G. Guerney, Jr. Section C: Clinical Supervision Carl Rogers' Client-Centered Approach to Supervision by Harold Hackney and Rodney K. Goodyear Section D: Large Groups Communities for Learning: A Person-Centered Approach by John Keith Wood Wider Applications of the Person-Centered Approach Person-Centered Administration in Higher Education by William R. Rogers The Personal Meaning of Illness: Client-Centered Dimensions of Medicine and Health Care by David Bernard Rogers' Impact on Pastoral Counseling and Contemporary Religious Reflection by Robert C. Fuller A Person-Centered Approach to Research by David Mearns and John McLeod Secrets and the Psychology of Secrecy: Some Preliminary Thoughts by John M. Shlien Another Necessary Condition Are We Doomed to Nuclear Planetary Suicide? by Carl R. Rogers and David Ryback References Index
SynopsisFeaturing 21 papers by important contributors from academia and clinical practice, this volume examines the major developments in the client-centered approach to therapy which took place in the U.S. and Europe during the 1970's and early 1980's., . . . an important contribution to the current literature on a person-centered approach. It demonstrates the increasingly broad and dynamic application of this perspective to a variety of fields. The Family Pscyhologist Featuring 21 papers by important contributors from academia and clinical practice, this volume examines the major developments in the client-centered approach to therapy which took place in the U.S. and Europe during the 1970's and early 1980's.