The Person-centred Approach A Passionate Presence

About this book

Whether the remarkable way-of-being initiated by Rogers is called client-centered or person-centered, I am primarily concerned with its complex and demanding practice. I have adapted some of my papers previously presented elsewhere, and added a few more to describe how I see person-centered practice. Although the theory, based in client-centered principles and values, informs each chapter, this book is not about theory. It is a challenge to those who practice the approach to recognize and fully engage the philosophical belief system, the passionate style of living and the integrity that person-centeredness demands. The book is addressed to facilitators of human growth, including but not limited to group leaders, educators, health care providers, parents, and therapists. It is also intended for the clients, students, patients, and other participants involved in person-centered relationships who, if we listen carefully, teach us how to improve our work. At the outset of this millennium, I hope it might speak as well to all persons who understand that we are intimately connected, one with the other, that we need to find more creative, healing ways to be together; and that we all bear fundamental responsibility for the health of the world community in which we live. --

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