Developing Person-Centred Counselling

"Developing Person-Centred Counselling" contains 30 sections, organized into six categories, each of which should help the practising counsellor improve his or her skills within the person-centred approach.

Dave Mearns examines areas such as the therapeutic alliance and process, the development of the counsellor, and the person-centred perspective, in relation to psychopathology.

Each of the sections aims to present novel, and frequently controversial, material, encouraging counsellors to think carefully about their work and how it can be improved.

An introduction focuses on the importance of training in depth - expressing caution about adopting the more advanced methods illustrated in the book without such rigorous preparation and provides a summary of the central features of person-centred counselling.

This book, written by the co-author of "Person-Centred Counselling in Action", should be of heuristic value as well as practical relevance to person-centred practitioners, both training and practising.