Counselling Young People: Person-centred Dialogues

PERSON-CENTRED COUNSELLING IN ACTION Third Edition

AN INTRODUCTION TO PERSON-CENTRED COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY Professor EWAN GILLON CHAPTER 3 – A PERSON-CENTRED THEORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPY

Person-centred dementia services

Background: we evaluated a specialist community-based dementia service to establish whether high quality care was being delivered and the conditions for doing so. The service was in an urban part of Rushcliffe Primary Care Trust, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. The service comprised an assessment team of an occupational therapist, a community psychiatric nurse and a community care officer, sup...

A Pilot Person-centred Group Counselling for University Students: Effects on Social Anxiety and Self-esteem

The Person-Centred Approach (PCA) has been effectively used with clients experiencing a variety of emotional disorders such as anxiety and depression. However, a study investigating the effectiveness of PC group work with individuals experiencing social anxiety symptoms is currently lacking. Thirteen university students were pre-tested with the Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation scale (BFNE-R) a...

Person Centred Therapy

Dr. Carl Rogers, the American psychologist and founder of what has now become known as person-centred counselling or psychotherapy, has always claimed to be grateful that he never had one particular mentor. He has been influenced by many significant figures often holding widely differing viewpoints; but above all he claims to be the student of his own experience and of that of his clients and c...