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 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...

Counselling versus low-intensity cognitive behavioural therapy for persistent sub-threshold and mild depression (CLICD): a pilot/feasibility randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND Persistent depressive symptoms below the threshold criteria for major depression represent a chronic condition with high risk of progression to a diagnosis of major depression. The evidence base for psychological treatments such as Person-Centred Counselling and Low-Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for sub-threshold depressive symptoms and mild depression is limited, particula...

NHS Values, Compassion and Quality Indicators for Relationship Based Person-Centred Healthcare; Comment on “Morality and Markets in the NHS”

The paper by Gilbert et al. should be on the table of every politician and National Health Service (NHS) manager in the run up to the general election, when the NHS is at the hustings. They have raised profound moral dilemmas of the internal and external market in their present form, such as the practicalities of distributive justice and the enhancement of autonomy – to which are added the pres...

Learning to practise the Guided Self‐Determination approach in type 2 diabetes in primary care: A qualitative pilot study

AIM To describe how diabetes nurses in primary care experience the process of learning to practise the person-centred counselling approach Guided Self-Determination among adults with type 2 diabetes. DESIGN A descriptive qualitative design. METHOD Data were collected in 2014-2015 by means of individual interviews with four diabetes nurses at two points in time. The data were analysed using ...