ABSTRACT The person-centered approach has been divided into five phases: non-directive, reflexive, experiential, collective or interhuman, and post-Rogerian, according to technical and epistemological criteria. We understand that each of these phases refers to a way to deal with alterity, or difference. This study aimed to analyze how difference may be explained in the non-directive phase of the person-centered

ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to explore how someone perceives the process of becoming a person-centered therapist, and if (and in what way) the person-centered approach changes their self-concept during this process. Six person-centered therapists were interviewed about the way they experienced their process of ‘becoming’, the way they perceive their self-concept with regard to this process,

ABSTRACT This mixed methods study examined the impacts of an intensive play therapy workshop that included a micro-practicum for 18 practicing school counselors. This study also explored school counselors’ experiences regarding their training for addressing mental health issues in schools and their experiences following the intensive play therapy workshop. Participants ranged in age from 28 years to

ABSTRACT This study investigated multiple aspects of therapists’ provision of positive regard (PR), including their assessment of the importance of PR in their practice, their sense of which specific aspects of PR are most affirming, and their perception of which aspects they provide most frequently to their clients. A total of 269 psychotherapists, primarily female, White, residing in the United States

ABSTRACT We present an Emotion Focused Therapy perspective on working with grief and bereavement. This perspective considers emotions as a fundamentally adaptive signaling system that provides people with important information about their needs and goals. Thus the focus in working with grief and bereavement in EFT is to access and symbolize people’s adaptive grief around their loss. When this grief

ABSTRACT The authors analyze the case of a preschool-aged child in child-centered play therapy (CCPT) and her parents in parent consultation. The child was referred to the clinic with the problem of constantly sucking her lips. 18 CCPT sessions were conducted with the child, and as a result of observed need, additional parent consultation meetings were held. The progress of the child in the therapeutic

ABSTRACT Nonviolent communication (NVC), a person-centered communication process, is a potential tool for enhancing the interpersonal effects of emotion-focused therapy. After establishing NVC’s model for fostering compassionate communication and connection between people, we present NVC’s interpersonal processes and the theoretical premises for its use in emotion-focused therapy. We elaborate how

ABSTRACT The field of social work is characterized by complex contexts. Against the backdrop of societal demands, institutional mandates, clients’ needs and concerns, and the ethical principles of the profession, professionals must orient themselves in every situation. The article deals with the question of how the person-centered approach can contribute to an appreciative approach to clients in this

ABSTRACT This paper analyses the manifestations of psychological maturity and immaturity in men’s attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help (PPH) through the lens of person-centered theory. A questionnaire and coding agenda were developed based on Carl Rogers’ theory of personality to study men’s attitudes toward seeking PPH. A content analysis of 12 semi-structured interviews with Russian

ABSTRACT Infertility is often regarded a major tragedy in a couple’s life. Fertility treatment (In Vitro Fertilization) is often seen as a solution. The aim of this study was to explore what women who undergo fertility treatment in Greece need from medical and health-care personnel and whether these can be mapped onto Rogers’ Person-Centered theory of therapy and values. Seven women who have undertaken

ABSTRACT Empathy and empowerment are crucial person-centered therapeutic processes that are interrelated and co-constructed in discourse by therapist-client dyads. Recently, research recommendations have been made for linguistic analyses of therapeutic processes. The interrelatedness of processes has often been overlooked when these recommendations have been progressed. Research so far has also tended

ABSTRACT Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) is an empirically supported humanistic treatment that considers clients’ emotional processes as the path to therapeutic change. The present aim was to develop a bibliometric study of EFT articles published in the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection. Books and chapters were not included in this research. The bibliometric analysis was performed using Hiscite and

ABSTRACT Ong, Murphy and Joseph argued that exposition of pluralistic practice embraces specific ontological ‘positions’ for different schools of psychotherapy which equates to an ‘ontological eclecticism’ that is antithetical to person-centered and experiential psychotherapies. I will however argue that the ontology underlying all schools of psychotherapy is universal and invariant; and that it is

ABSTRACT This article, which is based on a keynote speech delivered to PCE2021, takes the first theme of the conference, Tihei mauri ora, as a framework with which to examine the role of breath in well-being and the ways in which we connect and disconnect from ourselves and others. The theoretical context of the article is the application of a neuroscientifically-informed perspective on and in person-centered

ABSTRACT Pasifika communities in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) are a vibrant, diverse and heterogenous population. Following their migration to Aotearoa NZ they experienced the challenges of western world concepts, ideologies and frameworks being imposed on their worldview(s), a process that has led to social and economic disparities alongside health inequities which include mental distress and ill-health

ABSTRACT This article, which is an extensively revised version of a paper given at PCE2021, discusses Rogers’ ‘relationship therapy’. It argues that this original relational turn needs to be revisited and re-envisioned, especially if Rogerian and person-centered and experiential therapies are to seed, grow, and flourish in different soil from that whence it originally sprung. The article is framed

ABSTRACT This article introduces and elaborates on the themes of PCE2021: ‘Tihei mauri ora – Contact, culture, and context’. It provides the background to the organizers’ thinking about these themes, and especially their focus on bicultural engagement in the context of life and therapeutic practice in Aotearoa New Zealand and, as such, offers an introduction to this special issue of papers from that

ABSTRACT This article tells a story of bicultural engagement in Aotearoa New Zealand, specifically in the context of offering a space – and place – for engagement in and discussion about relationships between tangata whenua, the first people of the land of Aotearoa New Zealand, and subsequent settlers. Framed in terms of relational engagement (in)formed by contact, connection, journey and place, the

(2022). Editorial. Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies: Vol. 21, PCE 2021 Conference: Tihei mauri ora: Contact, culture, and context; Guest editors: Steff Revell, Brian Rodgers, Susan Stephen, & Keith Tudor, pp. 97-99.

ABSTRACT This article aims to provoke thinking about whiteness, culture and identity in relation to psychotherapy practice. The writing concludes with a poem that situates the author within an enriched environment that includes her ancestors and cultural heritage. Poetry illuminates hard to reach places, surfacing lived experiences that might otherwise hide in their everydayness. For the white therapist

(2022). Karakia. Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies: Vol. 21, PCE 2021 Conference: Tihei mauri ora: Contact, culture, and context; Guest editors: Steff Revell, Brian Rodgers, Susan Stephen, & Keith Tudor, pp. 100-101.

ABSTRACT Integrating creative processes within therapeutic encounters encourages us to be in contact on many levels and layers. Creativity may bring us into contact with our inner world and knowings, with the intersubjective space we share with others and with the world around us. This creative contact calls us into action, experimentation, imagination, risk taking, embodiment, and it cultivates our

ABSTRACT Person-centered psychotherapists can improve therapeutic attunement by using well-designed theories and self-report questionnaires. However, previous evaluations of the Focusing Manner Scale (FMS) did not consider item-level information as a means to improve Focusing attitude measurement. Thus, we adapted a German FMS-A.G and applied Rasch analysis to evaluate it with German undergraduates

ABSTRACT In recent years, the question of what is best for trans individuals has been hotly debated. This paper takes Rogers’ Theory of Personality and explores it alongside the experiences of trans individuals so as to add a Person-Centered perspective to the discourse. It is grounded in an understanding of the distress of not being oneself and explores in detail the barriers trans individuals can

ABSTRACT This study explores how trainee counselors, who have a Christian faith, experience the impact of person-centered counselor training on their faith. The research question was: ‘How do trainee counsellors who have a Christian faith experience the impact of person-centred counsellor training on their faith?’ The aims were: to explore the possible impact of person-centered counselor training on

ABSTRACT Emotional Processing Difficulties are a core construct from Emotion-Focused Therapy and a clinical target for differentiated psychotherapeutic tasks. The identification of these emotional difficulties is largely based on observation and clinical judgment. This study describes the first psychometric analysis of the Emotional Processing Difficulties Scale-Revised (EPDS-R). Exploratory Factor

ABSTRACT Making sense of our existence is one of the most demanding aspects of being human. Studies have shown that meaning is robustly associated with well-being and mental health. In this study with 358 Dutch-speaking participants during the covid-19 pandemic, we tested if the practice of contacting one’s felt sense (focusing attitude) would predict life satisfaction, psychological distress, and

ABSTRACT This case study examines the author’s therapeutic experience with one client presenting with anxiety, whilst working remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, this work shows the interrelation between theory, practice, and research in the author’s counseling psychology training with a person-centered/experiential approach. Firstly, the beginning of therapy contextualizes the work

ABSTRACT This article discusses a significant change in how Carl Rogers worked as a white therapist in an interracial dyad. This change was evident in two filmed demonstration interviews with African American clients in 1977 and 1984. While Rogers had always been steadfast in his stance against racism, in 1977 he was not sufficiently aware that being a white therapist might affect his relationship

ABSTRACT This article takes as its starting point the Emerson epigraph chosen by Rogers for his seminal book Client-Centered Therapy, and discovers that Rogers also acknowledged the ‘deep influence’ that Emerson and the transcendental school had on his personal life and philosophy. It proposes evidence of this influence, noticing similarities in the writings and biographical details of the two men

(2021). Online therapies and the person-centered approach. Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies: Vol. 20, Online Therapies and Person-Centered & Experiential Psychology; Guest editors: Keith Tudor and David Murphy, pp. 283-285.

ABSTRACT Person-centered and experiential therapies rely heavily on presence, empathic following, and experiencing. With the onset of the coronovirus pandemic in 2020 and the accompanying rapid shift to teletherapy, there are concerns about whether these essential components of person-centered and experiential therapies remain intact when not meeting in-person. This paper explores adaptations for delivering

ABSTRACT During the global pandemic, therapists have offered distance-based approaches to counseling and psychotherapy, often online. Although online therapy is not a new phenomenon, until recently it was offered by a minority of practitioners. Now, following the changes imposed by the pandemic, it is familiar to the majority. Therapists and clients have met and worked together in separate spaces in

ABSTRACT The urgency to implement distance-based methods to provide ongoing mental health care during the novel coronavirus (COVID‐19) pandemic represents a critical shift in treatment delivery for children, youth, and families. The COVID-19 pandemic has placed additional strain on the mental health of families and children. As a result, there is an increased need for brief, family-based interventions

(2022). The Art of Bohart: person-centred therapy and the enhancement of human possibility. Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 94-96.

(2021). Correction. Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies: Vol. 20, Online Therapies and Person-Centered & Experiential Psychology; Guest editors: Keith Tudor and David Murphy, pp. 352-352.

ABSTRACT Clinical supervision for advanced supervisees has more similarities than differences across therapeutic modalities. Research shows that supervisors, regardless of their therapeutic approach, use many common methods in their work. In the present paper, we describe the traits and aims of focusing-oriented supervision, which is suitable for many therapeutic approaches. We also examine two multi-approach

(2021). Editorial. Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies: Vol. 20, Qualitative Research; Guest editor: Maria Kefalopoulou, pp. 195-198.

ABSTRACT According to the person-centered theory of therapy, the therapist’s congruence is one of the necessary and sufficient conditions for therapeutic personality change. However, the development of therapists’ congruence has received limited research attention. This study was designed to explore the ways in which eight experienced person-centered therapists fostered their congruence. Data was collected

ABSTRACT Research on experiences of former young soldiers in Colombia, from their own frame of reference, and which includes both distress and growth, is rare. Person-Centered theory argues for an inherent potential for growth in all organisms and could provide further understanding of the experiences of these young women. The present study aimed to explore the experiences of six demobilized Colombian

ABSTRACT Person-centered therapy conceptualizes anxiety as occurring when an individual perceives incongruence within themselves, so better understanding the self-concept of anxious individuals can help us understand this incongruence. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with three health anxious white British women which were then subjected to Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. This produced

ABSTRACT This paper asks how to best foster high-quality relationships in online encounter. As video-platforms have been set up to serve business purposes, not personal growth, their architectures work brilliantly for establishing content, but less so for process. As virtual rooms have become a reality, they need to be appropriated by all those aiming to support collaborative, relational and co-creative

(2021). Online counseling and psychotherapy textbooks for the person-centered and experiential psychotherapies: from COVID-19 and beyond. Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies: Vol. 20, Online Therapies and Person-Centered & Experiential Psychology; Guest editors: Keith Tudor and David Murphy, pp. 345-351.

ABSTRACT Meaning in life is generally not considered to be one of the most central aspects of person-centered and experiential therapies. However, Carl Rogers described how clients found purpose in life by going through a process that helped them to connect to their inner experiencing. This process was evoked by an empathic, accepting, and genuine therapeutic relationship and resulted in positive therapy

ABSTRACT Since the first Japanese encounter group was held in 1970, numerous encounter groups with many participants have been held. In addition, countless studies have been conducted on encounter groups. In this paper, Japanese-style encounter groups are described. An encounter group facilitator needs to be aware of both the physical and psychological elements that comprise a group. Unlike physical

ABSTRACT In Carl Rogers’ written work schizophrenia and psychotic symptoms are mentioned over 2300 times. The use of the terms reflects the theoretical background prevailing at the time as well as the practical experience of Carl Rogers. Over the course of the publications a change in access to psychotic phenomena can be observed. In early years, Rogers viewed psychosis as fundamentally different from

ABSTRACT Focusing practitioners and researchers emphasize the importance of Focusing attitudes. The purpose of this research was to gather evidence concerning the construct validity of the Focusing Manner Scale 18 (FMS-18) which was developed to measure Focusing attitude in daily life by conducting exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and correlation analysis. The

ABSTRACT This paper discusses the possible contributions of the Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA) to the exploration of the person-centered approach (PCA) hence relating Michel Foucault to Carl Rogers. Different paths lead us to similar forms of understanding concerning meaning, discourses, subjective experience, personal power, self-actualization, epimeleia heautou (care of the self), parrhesia

ABSTRACT Working therapeutically online can offer a number of challenges, not least to therapists’ ideas about ways of engaging and working with clients, and views of reality, as well as to familiar theories about therapy, including the therapeutic relationship or ways of therapeutic relating. Taking Rogers’ theory of certain necessary and sufficient conditions – of psychotherapeutic change and of

ABSTRACT The present study included two experiments to determine whether the implicit association between psychological distance and valence would differ in the context of a structure-bound manner of experiencing. In Experiment 1, participants responded to a questionnaire that assessed individual differences in this manner and completed the proximity–distance Implicit Association Test (IAT) to measure

ABSTRACT This study examined the clinical effects of a brief group experiential therapy treatment centered on psychodrama in a sample of military veterans. The sample (N = 72) comprised male (n = 54) and female (n = 18) United States military veterans (Mage = 44.19, SDage = 12.51) who completed the six-day treatment. Self-reported military-related posttraumatic stress (M-PTSD), anxiety, depression

This article examines how the person-centered approach (PCA) became established in Aotearoa New Zealand, and draws parallels between how a Western psychology lands and settles and the process of co...

ABSTRACT This paper explores aspects of the past, present, and future of person-centered and experiential (PCE) therapies through a number of emotions that PCE practitioners may have about its theory, practice, location, and reception. Drawing on Jaak Panksepp’s work on affective neuroscience, the article applies his seven emotional systems – SEEKING, RAGE, FEAR, PANIC/GRIEF, PLAY, LUST, and CARE –

This study aimed to assess the empirical validity of Carl Rogers’ vision of the authentic person to be ecologically minded. 238 participants were asked to complete the Authenticity Scale, the Connectedness to Nature Scale, the Love and Care for Nature Scale, the Ethically Minded Consumer Behaviour Scale, and the Brief Social Desirability Scale. It was found that higher scores on authenticity were associated

The counselor’s emotional response to clients plays a crucial role in psychotherapy. It can have a profound influence on the client’s experience, on the therapeutic relationship, and on therapeutic...

Four aspects of Barbara Temaner Brodley’s practice of ‘classical’ client-centered therapy (CCT) are appraised in ways to suggest a rapprochement with the process-guiding experiential therapies that...

This is the third and final special issue in facilitating encounter, at least for the time being. We have been delighted by the level of interest in this subject and hope that the scholarship these...

ABSTRACT This paper illustrates how Community Play Therapy (CPT) can be used to facilitate person-to-person encounters in school avoidant and neurodiverse children. CPT provides a psychologically safe space for children who hesitate to go to school or have difficulties with school life due to neurodevelopmental disorders. CPT includes the children, volunteer assistants, and facilitators. The core conditions

ABSTRACT Despite the available literature on facilitative conditions noted in numerous writings on encounter groups, cofacilitators’ experiences are substantially under-researched. This present study aimed to explore psychotherapists’ experiences co- 10 facilitating encounter groups with two or more co-facilitators. A subsidiary question was: How do therapists who have facilitated large encounter groups

Narrow or restricted case formulation considerations can limit therapeutic effectiveness, limit the lived base of evidence guiding psychotherapy, and contribute to psychotherapist microaggressions....