Abstract

Building on the success of the first edition, this substantially revised and extended new edition is set to remain the most in-depth and wide-ranging book available on person-centred psychotherapy and counselling.
The book is thoroughly updated to reflect the latest trends in theory and practice:
• It extends its coverage of professional settings and applications, including brand new chapters on children, older people, arts-based therapies, addiction and bereavement.
• It engages systematically with urgent contemporary issues, such as evidence-based practice, political and medical discourses, and theoretical integration.
• It uses case illustrations, therapist-client dialogues, points of reflection and further resources to bring person-centred therapy to life for the reader, in a user-friendly way.
• It includes contributions by an increasingly extensive group of writers, thinkers, teachers and practitioners.

Praise for the first edition:

'A Who's Who of contemporary person-centred thinkers and practitioners. This handbook will be the standard reference work in the area.' – William B. Stiles, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA

'So comprehensive is this handbook, that if students of the person-centred approach could only afford to buy themselves one book, then they would do well to make it this one.' - Therapy Today

This is a truly exhilarating, inspiring and provocative volume.' - Person-Centred Quarterly