Counselling Couples and Families: A Person-Centred Approach / Edition 1

by Charles J O'Leary

Overview

Extra para for end of O'Leary blurb:Counselling Couples and Families will be invaluable to beginning counsellors as well as to established practitioners wishing to develop their skills as a relational counsellor, whether or not they have experience in either person-centred or couple and family counselling.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761957904
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/04/1999
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Charles J O'Leary has a private counselling practice and offers courses at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. He was a member of the Center for Studies of the Person for 20 years, where he studied with Carl Rogers. He is an Approved Supervisor of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, teaches family and couples therapy to graduate students, and offers workshops throughout the United States, Great Britain and Italy.

Table of Contents

Relational Counselling and the Person-Centred Approach
Why Do Counsellors Stay Away from Relational Counselling?
Themes in Family Therapy
Relational Counselling and the Six Core Conditions of the Person-Centred Approach
Preparation for Relational Therapy
Getting Started
In the Middle of Relational Counselling
Ending Relational Counselling
Couples Counselling
One Family's Experience

Editorial Reviews

Adopter's comment

'A fascinating book which combines couple counselling with person-centred counselling. Will be recommended reading for social work students working with couple relationships'

'Very readible. Useful for students of counselling beyomd the 'title' focus of couples and families'

‘Compelling reading... I liked this book. It is intelligent, thought-provoking, occasionally funny and a delight to read. I warmed to the author's passion for the work of Carl Rogers.... All Relate counsellors will find something of value - even the strict psychodynamic practitioners' - Relate News

‘This is a highly readable text, which incorporates the theory and practice of counselling couples and families, integrated with principles from the person-centred approach....This text is most valuable to the beginner counsellor, however it can be considered a refresher to the more established practitioner' - Eisteach

‘Provides a very good introduction for counsellors in working with families' - British Journal of Guidance & Counselling'

‘This book is unique in its articulation of family therapy and the person-centred approach. It is also engaging in the way couples and the families come to life through Charlie O'Leary's acute and sensitive observation. It is an essential text in any person-centred therapy library'- Dave Mearns, University of Strathclyde

‘In this highly readable text, the theory and practice of counselling couples and families are successfully integrated with principles from the Rogerian/person-centred approach. In this sense the book is unique: although a lot of counsellors in fact practice relational therapy from a person-centred perspective, until now, no basic text was available in this field' - Alfons Vansteenwegen, INTAMS Review

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