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This volume is 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... This book is a valuable addition to the library of seasoned family psychologists as well as beginning graduate students in marriage and family therapy programs. The Family Psychologist

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction/John M. Shlien and Ronald F. Levant
Part I: Developments in Theory and Research
Section A: The Facilitative Conditions
The Empirical Status of Rogers's Hypotheses of the Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Effective Psychotherapy/Neill Watson
Unconditional Positive Regard; A Controversial Basic Attitude in Client-Centered Therapy/Germain Lietaer
Beyond Reflection; Emergent Modes of Empathy/Jerold D. Bozarth
Section B: Experiencing/Focusing
The Client's Client; The Edge of Awareness/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/Desmond S. Cartwright and Mary Jane Graham
The Fully Functioning Person; Theory and Research/Julius Seeman
A Counter-Theory of Transference/John M. Shlien
Part II: Developments in Practice
Section A: Individual Psychotherapy
Client Tasks in Client-Centered Therapy/Laura N. Rice
Person-Centered Gestalt; Toward a Holistic Synthesis/Maureen Miller O'Hara
Section B: Family Therapy and Enhancement
The World of Family Relationships; A Person-Centered Systems View/Godfrey T. Barrett-Lennard
From Person to System; Two Perspectives/Ronald F. Levant
Contributions of Client-Centered Therapy to Filial, Marital, and Family Relationship Enhancement Therapies/Bernard G. Guerney, Jr.
Section C: Clinical Supervision
Carl Rogers's Client-Centered Approach to Supervision/Harold Hackney and Rodney K. Goodyear
Section D: Large Groups
Communities for Learning; A Person-Centered Approach/John Keith Wood
Part III: Wider Applications of the Person-Centered Approach
Person-Centered Administration in Higher Education/William R. Rogers
The Personal Meaning of Illness; Client-Centered Dimensions of Medicine and Health Care/David Bernard
Rogers's Impact on Pastoral Counseling and Contemporary Religious Reflection/Robert C. Fuller
A Person-Centered Approach to Research/David Mearns and John McLeod
Secrets and the Psychology of Secrecy; Some Preliminary Thoughts/John M. Shlien
Part IV: Another Necessary Condition
Are We Doomed to Nuclear Planetary Suicide?/Carl R. Rogers and David Ryback
References
Index

About the Author

RONALD F.LEVANT is Clinical Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology at Boston University.

JOHN M.SHLIEN is Professor at Harvard University, is well known for his contributions to the development of the client-centered approach in the late 1950's and 1960's.

Reviews

?In sum, this volume is 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. Of particular interest to family psychologists are the chapters on family relationships, systems theories and marital and family therapy. This book is a valuable addition to the library of seasoned family psychologists as well as beginning graduate students in marriage and family therapy programs.?-The Family Psychologist

"In sum, this volume is 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. Of particular interest to family psychologists are the chapters on family relationships, systems theories and marital and family therapy. This book is a valuable addition to the library of seasoned family psychologists as well as beginning graduate students in marriage and family therapy programs."-The Family Psychologist