Person-Centered and Experiential Therapies Work: a review of the research on counseling, psychotherapy and related practices
ISBN 978 1 906254 25 4 (2010)
Person-Centered and Experiential Therapies Work provides a comprehensive, systematic and accessible review of the evidence base for the approach and the methods and measures by which it can be evaluated. It gives clear evidence for the effectiveness of person-centered and experiential therapies, and is an essential resource for students and practitioners who want to know more about the empirical support for their work, and to promote it with confidence.
1. The Effectiveness of Person-Centered and Experiential Therapies: A review of the meta-analyses Robert Elliott & Elizabeth Freire
2. Effectiveness of Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies with Children and Young People: A review of outcome studies Dagmar Hölldampf, Michael Behr & Ina Crawford
3. Effectiveness beyond Psychotherapy: The person-centered, experiential paradigm in education, parenting, and management Jeffrey H. D. Cornelius-White & Renate Motschnig-Pitrik
4. Qualitative Meta-Analysis of Outcomes of Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies Ladislav Timulak & Mary Creaner
5. Clients as Active Self-Healers: Implications for the person-centered approach Arthur C. Bohart & Karen Tallman
6. Relating Process to Outcome in Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies: The role of the relationship conditions and clients’ experiencing Jeanne C. Watson, Leslie S. Greenberg & Germain Lieter
7. Operationalizing Incongruence: Measures of self-discrepancy and affect regulation Jeanne C. Watson & Neill Watson
8. Measuring the Relationship Conditions in Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies: Past, present, and future Elizabeth Freire & Soti Grafanaki
9. Researching in a Person-Centered Way Paul Wilkins
10. Key Priorities for Research in the Person-Centered and Experiential Field: ‘If not now, when?’ Mick Cooper, Jeanne C. Watson & Dagmar Hölldampf
I concur with the editors' conclusion that we need to develop and stimulate research, that we need to develop tools and methodologies that are consistent with the fundamental values and principles of the PCE, but that we also need to work on understanding and speaking the language of colleagues from other orientations and disciplines. The challenge for PCE is to produce good quality research that carries credibility and genuinely supports the development of good practice, client choice and empowerment without 'selling out' the principles of the approach by concentrating on symptoms, symptom relief and the economically driven social control agenda of funders, health providers and insurers. Elke Lambers, Person-centered therapist in PCEP Vol 10 Issue 4, 2011
… I suspect the main value of the book to counsellors in health care will be to offer (alongside Cooper's Essential Research Findings in Counselling and Psychotherapy: The facts are friendly) supportive evidence for the validity of our work in the terminology recognised and supported by medical and psychological orthodoxy. Ewan Davidson, Person-Centred counsellor in primary care. HCPJ April 2011
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