Download e-book for iPad: Counselling Couples and Families: A Person-Centred Approach by Charles J O'Leary

`Then alongside comes your publication - lands on my table like a present, which i've got slightly placed down when you consider that. It stopped me trying to find exterior solutions, helped me to dig into the data, philosophy and method of operating which already existed in me. I draw on all of it the time for suggestion and a manner of grounding me within the tentative moments of training a fragile reference to the households I stumble upon. i've got much to be grateful to you for - i've got now built a fashion of operating which turns out invaluable and which allows these round me to discover a manner ahead, yet possibly such a lot of all i ultimately think cozy and unfastened to be an identical counsellor i'm with participants - Hurrah!' - Kim Barber, Counsellor

'A interesting e-book which mixes couple counselling with person-centred counselling. can be prompt analyzing for social paintings scholars operating with couple relationships'

'Very readible. worthwhile for college kids of counselling beyomd the 'title' concentration of and families'

`The in basic terms e-book on couple and relatives counselling from the person-centred approach'

`This ebook is exclusive in its articulation of family members remedy and the person-centred strategy. it's also conducting the best way and the households come to lifestyles via Charlie O'Leary's acute and delicate statement. it truly is an important textual content in any person-centred treatment library'- Dave Mearns, collage of Strathclyde

`Compelling reading... I loved this e-book. it really is clever, thought-provoking, sometimes humorous and a satisfaction to learn. I warmed to the author's ardour for the paintings of Carl Rogers.... All Relate counsellors will locate whatever of price - even the stern psychodynamic practitioners' - Relate News

`The writer merits congratulations on his effortless, readable variety. this may make sure that the booklet can be learn, instead of easily browsed by means of many' - Sexual and dating Therapy

`Provides an outstanding creation for counsellors in operating with families.' - British magazine of steerage & Counselling

`In this hugely readable textual content, the speculation and perform of counselling and households are effectively built-in with rules from the Rogerian/person-centred process. during this feel the booklet is exclusive: even supposing loads of counsellors in truth perform relational treatment from a person-centred standpoint, in the past, no easy textual content was once on hand during this box' - Alfons Vansteenwegen, INTAMS Review

In this exact booklet, the speculation and perform of counselling and households are built-in with ideas from the person-centred strategy. With a number of examples from real periods, the ebook basically illustrates the foremost matters that and households face, and the ways that the counsellor will help them to unravel those to their very own delight.

Written essentially from the point of view of operating with and households, matters particular to relational counselling are contrasted to those who come up whilst counselling contributors or non-related teams. the writer then explores the method of relational counselling utilizing the person-centred ideas of empathy, congruence, unconditional confident regard and non-interference with the consumers' actualizing tendency.