Authors

David Cain, PhD, ABPP, is the editor of Humanistic Psychotherapies: Handbook of Research and Practice (2002) and of Classics in the Person-Centered Approach (2002). He received his doctorate in clinical and community psychology from the University of Wyoming. At present, he teaches at the California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego of…

Mick Cooper is Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Roehampton and a practising counselling psychologist. Mick is author and editor of a range of texts on person-centred, existential, and relational approaches to therapy. Mick has led a series of research studies – both qualitative and quantitative – exploring…

Michael Behr is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. His research topics are person-centred counselling, child and adolescent psychotherapy, young people’s emotions, and parent–school relationships. He has written several books about school development and person-centred work…

Daniel N. Berkow, PhD, currently is Associate Director of a university counseling centre. He has provided group therapy for students in university settings, and for adults, adolescents, and children in community settings. His areas of interest in publication and presentation include group dynamics, therapeutic inquiry, and intercultural understandings of counseling.

Barbara Temaner Brodley’s (1932 – 2007) graduate teaching, consultation, international workshop presentations and publications have established her as one of the foremost authorities on the theory and practice of client-centered therapy. Brodley received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Clinical Psychology and Human Development.  At the…

Yvonne Bates is committed to the development of an inclusive and collaborative therapeutic community, campaigning against the academic expropriation and professionalisation of practice. She is keen to challenge the myth of the therapist as expert and to encourage theorists, practitioners and policy makers to work in genuine partnership with clients…

Jerold Bozarth was Professor Emeritus of the University of Georgia, where his tenure included Chair of the Department of Counseling and Human Development, Director of the Rehabilitation Counseling Program and Director of the Person-Centered Studies Project. He was a consultant for person-centred training programmes in the Czech Republic and Portugal;…

Godfrey (Goff) Barrett-Lennard is Honorary Fellow in Psychology at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, and in part-time practice. He left Perth in the mid-1950s to study with Carl Rogers, graduating (PhD, 1959) from the University of Chicago. His career continued in the United States, New South Wales and Canada, until…

Nick Baker retired as Senior Lecturer in Counselling at St Martin’s College, Lancaster in August 2007. He worked for 20 years as a counsellor educator with a special interest in experiential approaches to psychotherapy. He has published book chapters (including a chapter in The Tribes of the Person-Centred Nation), papers…

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