Now in its third edition, this classic text is essential reading. From its origins in the 1960s, person-centred therapy has long resonated. But it has not stood still, and in this book leading proponents in their fields offer succinct and inspiring summaries of their specialist approach, supported with suggestions for further reading and resources.
A book about racism and its intersections with other forms of oppression within the talking therapies, told from the therapist's perspective. Containing first-person accounts of the often traumatising silencing of counsellors of colour within, and by, their own profession. These are also stories of strength, courage, resourcefulness and growth.
Global heating, catastrophic climate change, ecosystem damage and species extinction hang over us all. In this book - counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, coaches and their supervisors - explore the frameworks, theoretical constructs and ways of working they have devised to hold hope and build agency in the face of it all.
This collection of chapters casts a critical eye on the concept of coproduction in our national mental health and learning disability services. Contributors from across the mental health arena offer critical analysis and case examples of coproduction in principle and practice.
This book takes the themes, energy and passions of the 'A Disorder for Everyone!' events - bringing together many of the event speakers with others who have stories to tell and messages to share in the struggle to challenge psychiatric diagnosis.
To what extent can the UK government's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies system of care - driven by psychiatric diagnosis, fast through-put and quick-win `outcomes' - really provide a solution to Britain's growing mental health crisis?
Each of the contributors describes a specific innovation in theory, and then brings this to life in an account of their engagement with a specific client. Every chapter concludes with a `Question and Answer' section in which the author reflects on the significance of their work in dialogue with the editor.
Extensively updated and retitled in a second edition, this book makes a powerful case for the effectiveness of person-centred approaches to working with people diagnosed with severe 'mental illnesses'. This new edition captures the recent changes in how mental health is conceptualised and understood, and in how mental health care is delivered.
Explores alternatives to psychiatry developed by people with direct experience of extreme crisis and psychiatric treatment. Describes the origins, development, challenges and politics that inspired these international survivor-led and survivor-run grassroots approaches.
This book presents accounts of the practice of the person-centred approach (PCA) with people suffering from a range of severe and enduring conditions by the world's top practioners. Comprehensively refuting the notion that person- centred therapy is suitable only for the 'worried well', it backs up contemporary practice with appropriate theory.