Client-Centered Therapy and the Person-Centered Approach

RONALD F. LEVANT is Clinical Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology at Boston University.JOHN M. SHLIEN is Professor at Harvard University and well-known for his contributions to the development of the client-centered approach in the late 1950s and 1960s.

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