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Examination of the construct validity of the Focusing Manner Scale 18(FMS-18) with exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2021-04-11 Hideaki Fukumori
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
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Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA) and the person-centered approach (PCA): a discourse, with a special focus on the gender paradigm Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Maria Kefalopoulou
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
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Online video conferencing therapy and the person-centered approach in the context of a global pandemic Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2021-03-28 Brian Rodgers, Keith Tudor, Anton Ashcroft
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
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Carl Rogers and Schizophrenia. The evolution of Carl Rogers’ thinking on psychosis and schizophrenia: a literature survey Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2021-03-18 David Oberreiter
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
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Implicit association between proximity and negative representation in the structure-bound manner Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-12-09 Keiji Takasawa, Yoshimi Ito, Yasuhiro Suetake
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
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Effects of a group experiential therapy program on the psychological health of military veterans: a preliminary investigation Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-12-07 Richard G. Cowden, Ian M. Chapman, Austin Houghtaling, Everett L. Worthington Jr.
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 (M age = 44.19, SD age = 12.51) who completed the six-day treatment. Self-reported military-related posttraumatic stress (M-PTSD), anxiety, depression
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The person-centred approach in Aotearoa New Zealand: a critical examination of a settler psychology Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-11-26 Keith Tudor, Brian Rodgers
ABSTRACT 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 colonization. Utilizing a critical methodology of both written records and oral history, the article documents the process of ‘first contact’ of Rogers’ ideas, followed by the later ‘settlement’ of
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Person-centred approaches in the context of emotions Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-11-25 Keith Tudor
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 –
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From ego-centred to eco-centred: an investigation of the association between authenticity and ecological sensitivity Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-11-19 Awa Sabrina Ottiger, Stephen Joseph
ABSTRACT 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 Behavior Scale, and the Brief Social Desirability Scale. It was found that higher scores on authenticity
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Therapist anger: from being a therapeutic barrier to becoming a resource in the development of congruence Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-08-04 Laurent Berthoud, Thomas Noyer
ABSTRACT 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 outcomes. This article will focus on the therapist’s experience of anger. Research on how the therapist can express that particular emotion in a productive way is quite limited. We will also discuss
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Re-visioning the ‘radical purist’ Barbara Temaner Brodley in relation to Gendlin’s process model Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-07-27 Ross Crisp
ABSTRACT 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 she opposed. First, I discuss her affinity with, and alienation from, these therapies particularly in relation to her conceptions of the ‘empathic understanding response process’ and ‘presence.’
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Community play therapy for encounter with diverse children Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Takashi Oshie
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
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Psychotherapists’ experiences of co-facilitating large encounter PCEP groups: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of six interviews Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Divine Charura
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
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Approaching mindful multicultural case formulation: Rogers, Yalom, and existential phenomenology Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-04-19 Andrew J. Felder, Brent D. Robbins
ABSTRACT Narrow or restricted case formulation considerations can limit therapeutic effectiveness, limit the lived base of evidence guiding psychotherapy, and contribute to psychotherapist microaggressions. Notably, Person-Centered Therapy (PCT) and existential phenomenology have, in combination, actively maintained that the cultural landscapes or interconnected world horizons of historical, contextual
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Stories of belonging: from the national to the personal. Based on the workshop drawing ourselves, drawing our country: from Greek specificities to a globalizing dialogue (PCE 2018 conference, Vienna, 8-12 July 2018) Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-04-15 Maria Kefalopoulou, Anna Marina Iossifides
ABSTRACT In the 21st century, the push and pull between localism and globalization define competing discourses. Social and political identities serve as external supports to a ‘symbolic universe’, a sense of belonging. Yet, today, social representations of an imagined homogeneous national entity are being challenged by mass immigration, refugee crisis and competing models of a global village. Within
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Impermanence focus: for more detailed mechanism of clearing a space Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-04-15 Keiji Takasawa
ABSTRACT Researches on emotion regulation have suggested that contextualizing a negative life event within a broader time frame, what is called impermanence focus, buffers its emotional impact. Does impermanence focus play an important role during the therapeutic process of clearing a space (CAS)? This study examined whether impermanence focus as a positive mediating variable between distancing and
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Person-centered and experiential psychotherapy and transactional analysis – contributions of two humanistic approaches to challenging or confounded counselling situations Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-04-15 Michael Behr, Gernot Aich, Claudia Scheurenbrand
ABSTRACT Both the person-centered and experiential (PCEP) and the Transactional Analysis (TA) approaches act on the assumption that the counselor would have unconditional positive regard (UPR) or an OK-OK-Position, respectively, and be real and self-disclosing. Thus, they complement each other very well. At times, counselors have to work with offensive, devaluating, passive, and otherwise challenging
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The therapy of ego boundary disorders focusing special attention on structural empathy Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-04-07 David Oberreiter
ABSTRACT The ability to fully comprehend the mental experience of those suffering from psychotic symptoms can sometimes elude the empathic capabilities of therapists. Even the most experienced psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists have difficulty in dealing with, and understanding the strangeness of the symptoms and their full significance to those affected. Particularly the phenomenon
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Emotion-focused perspective on breast cancer patients’ experiences of comorbid anxiety and depression: a qualitative case analysis of three clients’ in-session presentations Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-02-13 Joana Hissa, Allison Connolly, Ladislav Timulak, Natalie Hession
ABSTRACT The current study is a qualitative, descriptive-interpretative study that utilizes an emotion-focused therapy (EFT) theoretical framework as the basis of interpretation of clients’ experiences of co-morbid anxiety and depression among three women with breast cancer. The study consists of analysis into the clients’ in-session presentation of their difficulties. The study uses a multiple case
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How the therapeutic relationship can repair failures in ‘safe other’ experiences required for normal neurodevelopment of capacities for human intimacy and autonomy Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-02-10 Monika Tarnowska, Anna Osińska-Owczarska, Monika Sowicka, Grażyna Supel-Szczerbic
ABSTRACT Dynamic neurodevelopment occurs in the first months of human life and requires optimal environmental conditions to advance in a typical way. One of the most important determinants of this process is the stable availability of a safe and responsive caregiver. This provides the child with a facilitative context for solving naturally emerging developmental conflicts, namely conflicts between
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Using therapeutic contracts in person-centered counseling and psychotherapy: the perspectives of experienced Greek person-centered therapists Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-02-10 Vasiliki C. Baourda, Agathi Lakioti
ABSTRACT The therapeutic contract is an important aspect of the counseling process. However, it has received limited research interest, especially in the person-centered community. The objective of this qualitative study was to examine the perceptions and use of therapeutic contracts of seven experienced, person-centered therapists in Greece. A grounded theory design was chosen to guide the analysis
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Person-centered conceptualization of multiculturalism and social justice in counseling Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-02-10 Alyssa M. Swan, Peggy Ceballos
ABSTRACT Person-centered therapy’s cross-cultural relevance and nondirective stance have been doubted and challenged in counseling and social justice literature. In order to incorporate multiculturalism and social justice advocacy into effective and ethical practice, it is critical for person-centered counselors to be able to conceptualize, understand, and serve social justice issues through a person-centered
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Unnecessary and incompatible: a critical response to Cooper and McLeod’s conceptualization of a pluralistic framework for person-centered therapy Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-02-10 Wei Tao Ong, David Murphy, Stephen Joseph
ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to critically examine the axiom of Cooper and McLeod that the person-centered approach should incorporate pluralistic practices based on clients’ goals and wants. First, we examine Cooper and McLeod’s argument that the uniqueness of clients means that therapeutic work should orientate around helping clients to identify what they want and how to achieve it. Second,
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Working with transgender and gender diverse clients in emotion-focused therapy: targeting minority stress Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-02-10 Robin Westmacott, Christopher Edmondstone
ABSTRACT Our objective is to introduce therapeutic intervention, in an EFT framework, with gender diverse people. We review research outlining mental health comorbidity, and some of the unique needs of this population. We understand risk and protective factors and intervention targets through the lens of minority stress theory. Proximal minority stress variables – internalized transphobia, expected
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‘Being able to take that mask off’: adolescent clients’ experiences of power in person-centered therapy relationships Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-02-07 David Cook, Laura Monk
ABSTRACT Person-centered therapy aims to help clients actualize their own power. When working with adolescents, the developmental needs of the client and the power difference between client and therapist may present additional barriers to this. This study sought to understand the power dynamics of the therapy relationship from the adolescent client’s perspective. Seven adolescent clients in person-centered
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Learning emotion-focused therapy: certified emotion-focused therapists’ perspectives Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-02-03 Suyi Qiu, Barbara Hannigan, Daragh Keogh, Ladislav Timulak
ABSTRACT Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) is an increasingly popular form of humanistic therapy that is spreading internationally through standard training curricula. The empirical investigations of training in EFT have, however, received little attention. This study investigated certified EFT therapists’ experience of learning EFT, including their experience of didactic training, experiential exercises
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The positive psychology of relational depth and its association with unconditional positive self-regard and authenticity Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Jiyea Kim, Stephen Joseph, Sue Price
ABSTRACT Relational depth (RD) refers to moments in a therapeutic relationship in which a person has feelings of aliveness, satisfaction and immersion. However, no research has yet tested for the association between RD and concepts closely aligned with Carl Rogers’ hypothesis of how people change in a growth-promoting relationship. In this study, 55 therapy clients completed the relational depth inventory
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The existential impact of high-conflict divorce on children Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2020-01-02 David Shumaker, Charlotte Kelsey
ABSTRACT While it has become clear that high-conflict divorce/separation can have both short- and long-term negative effects upon children, traditional measures of health and adjustment are limited in their ability to fully capture the depth and scope of this trauma. The impact of parental conflict and divorce can arguably be more deeply grasped by clinicians attuned to existential considerations.
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Group facilitation – approach to a definition by three women Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-11-12 Susanna Markowitsch, Leonore Langner, Michaela Zolles
ABSTRACT The article is a summary of our brainstorming and should provide readers with ideas rather than with a full coverage of the theory of person-centered group facilitation. We revolve around the topic by describing encounter as an attempt to improve personal relations and by attributing a central role to the existence of the organism of the group. The facilitator’s role is considered from a practical
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Person-centered encounter and its facilitation in terms of fundamental theory Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-10-31 Mark T. Harrison
ABSTRACT Drawing from Carl Rogers’ theory of interpersonal relationship, a definition of person-centered encounter is offered in terms of attempting what he termed ‘improving relationship’. Within this, facilitation is seen as necessarily integral to encounter, based on his consideration of the facilitation of group tension and conflict. The concept of congruence is examined in the context of encounter
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On training group facilitators: challenges and dilemmas Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-10-30 Colin Lago, Dot Clark, John Wilson
ABSTRACT A brief introduction is made to a training course in group facilitation run by the authors. This is further illuminated by a set of operational principles and a description of the educational approach and methodology. The core structure of the course is based upon an open group process where participants and facilitators explore whatever emerges within the group setting whilst, from time to
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Exploring the value of person-centred encounter groups today - relevance, purpose and importance Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-10-23 Jules Haley, Rachel Yates
ABSTRACT In the first part of this personal reflective paper we describe setting up the ‘Central London PCA Encounter Group’ in the UK, which has been running monthly for the last two years. We explore the motivation for establishing the group, the ethos of facilitation, the challenges of the role of facilitators, conflict and the attitudinal qualities of the group, and the diversity and growth of
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Collaborative facilitation of encounter groups Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-10-23 Magda Draskóczy
ABSTRACT The main aim of this paper is to present members’ experiences in three long run encounter groups that function as collaboratively facilitated ones without a designated facilitator. Shared experiences of the members outline some themes around the feeling of being in an encounter group with the facilitator in contrast to facilitating it ourselves, such ones as freedom, responsibility, safety
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Pandas in a zoo: facilitating encounter in institutional settings Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Manu Bazzano
ABSTRACT This paper outlines a personal experience of facilitating encounter groups within person-centered training in some UK’s universities and colleges. It centered around the following questions: Does the person-centered approach (PCA) become sterilized within institutions increasingly run like businesses, where trainees are seen as customers and tutors as functionaries? What are the challenges
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Why should person-centered facilitating be gender-sensitive? Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Karin Macke, Gabriele Hasler
ABSTRACT Human beings do not have a fixed sex/gender but everyone is constantly (re)creating the concepts of femininity and masculinity. But gender still functions as a basis for discrimination in the existing social order. The authors point out the importance of knowing about and reflecting gender prejudices as well as gender stereotypes, forms and mechanisms of discrimination being at work in order
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Editorial: facilitating encounter in a training context Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Gillian Proctor, Renata Fuchs, Aglaja Przyborski
In this second special issue on facilitating encounter, we focus particularly on encounter groups as part of training, teaching and what it means to facilitate encounter groups in this context. Encounter groups are sometimes used as part of person-centered counseling and psychotherapy training, as well as in related teaching contexts. There are conflicts and dilemmas involved for trainers who also
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Being human: how does the personal experience of participating in encounter groups support the development and practice of the encounter facilitator? Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Margaret Joynson Rock
ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to offer a definition of encounter and encounter groups based on the author’s understanding and experience as a participant and facilitator. Through reflection on experience as a participant, consideration is given to how the self-awareness and insights gained from this can shape the understanding of the role of facilitator, and how it enables what can be offered to
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The encounter group in counseling training: is it therapy? Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Dee C. Ray
ABSTRACT The use of encounter groups in counselor training is widespread and long-standing tradition in academic programs. Some educators are opposed to the implementation of encounter groups due to the perception that encounter groups as part of training programs are unethical because they are considered facilitation of therapy with students. This article explores the rationale, definition, and role
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Dedication to Charles O’Leary Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Gillian Proctor
I would like to dedicate this issue to Charles O’Leary who died in October, just after his article was printed in the first ‘facilitating encounter’ special issue. Charlie has been a central part of these special issues for me. When we, the editors, first released the call for papers inspired by the encounter experience at the PCE conference in Vienna in July 2018, Charlie was the first to respond
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Facilitating encounter within an academic course on communication Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Renate Motschnig
ABSTRACT This paper deals with the potentials and limitations of group encounters in academic teacher training. The major research question is whether person-centered encounter groups should get their space within teacher education and if so, which factors need to be taken into account to maximize students’ whole-person learning through encounter. The author’s – my – finding after more than a decade’s
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Encounter: story, self, metaphor, person Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-08-20 William Stillwell
ABSTRACT Individuals are invited to the kind of Encounter Groups referenced in this article with language such as this: ‘We sit together in a circle, using the opportunity to talk and otherwise communicate. Our aim is to understand and experience our personal relatedness to happenings that concern us. Our conversations are essentially sincere but not without humor. People actually listen, and we hear
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Bicultural encounter Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Maria Haenga-Collins, Margot Solomon, Wiremu Woodard, Brian Rodgers, Keith Tudor
ABSTRACT This article discusses large group encounter in the context of biculturalism, a concept that is specific to the relationship and engagement between indigenous and settler cultures, especially, though not exclusively in countries such as Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the United States of America. It is written by five colleagues who work in the same tertiary educational institution
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Facilitating groups – responsibility of person and role Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Erich Zauner
ABSTRACT The question of how to support a group best in the sense of the person-centered approach (PCA) leads to a distinction between person and role, each with its own responsibilities. Role is not seen as an opposition to the person, but as an aspect of a person resulting from their social function. The condition between person and role is examined on the basis of the individual therapy setting
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Radical intentions: twenty-first century reflections on facilitation in person-centered approach large group workshops Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Maureen O’Hara
ABSTRACT In 1973 Carl R. Rogers, Natalie Rogers Fuchs and John K Wood and a staff that included the current author collectively conceived of a series of events that would explore three core questions–whether or not Client-Centered principles shown to be effective for facilitating positive change in individuals demonstrate similar growth promoting effects on collectivities such as families, groups and
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When encounter becomes electric: an online group experience Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-07-03 John Wilson, Fabienne Chazeaux, Carole Francis-Smith, Kate Dunn
ABSTRACT In February 2019 we hosted our first online Diploma training weekend. None of the participants were physically present to each other as they were in their own homes and connecting through an online meeting environment. Our training program is well known for the intensity that is created in an unstructured space where we are all physically present with each other. Therefore, the inclusion of
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Enchantment, trouble, and learning: reflections of a couple and family counselor participating in person-centered large group encounters Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Charles J. O’Leary
ABSTRACT Inspired by experience in a large unstructured person-centered group in which I was both distressed and the cause of distress in others, I find parallels between group experience and that of persons in intimate relationships. In both, enchantment and belonging can give way to frustration and alienation. The encounter with the other brings confusion and disappointment that can interfere with
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“All real life is encounter” On the sustainable relevance to be surprised and affected Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Peter F. Schmid
ABSTRACT Encounter is much more than a way of practicing psychotherapy or group work. These practices are just applications of a basic anthropological, epistemological and (socio-)ethical stance on how we humans find ourselves in the world and how we can choose to relate to other human beings, groups, communities, the society, givens in the world and the world as such. This paper tries to call to mind
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Acknowledging inequalities and meeting the unknown other: facilitating encounter Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Gillian Proctor
ABSTRACT In this paper, I define what I understand by encounter and what rewards can arise from such relationships. I emphasize the importance of the stance of humility or not knowing to encounter the mystery of the other. I argue that the precondition for a successful encounter is the shared belief in the equality of all. I then try and elucidate the key aims that I hold for myself as a facilitator
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The evolution of person-centered encounter: creating egalitarian environments for mattering, meaning & healing Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Gay Leah Barfield
ABSTRACT The article revisits and recounts the history of the evolutionary developmental nature of change in person-centered encounter group processes and emphases over 5 decades, as viewed from the author’s participation over that time period, focusing on the socially conscious, egalitarian, feminist, linguistic equity, power, and political elements of change, as central to that direction.
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A core concept of PCA in the spotlight: facilitating encounter Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Gillian Proctor, Renata Fuchs, Aglaja Przyborski
ABSTRACT In this editorial, we introduce our inspiration for this special issue in facilitating encounter. We explore some of the tensions inherent in the person-centered literature, such as working with or prioritizing individuals or the group. We emphasize the necessity for the authenticity and spontaneity of facilitators and their role as participants as well as facilitators. In the current context
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Processing emotional pain using the expanded Emotion Focused Therapy task of Focusing: A single-session case study Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-06-28 Melissa Harte, Barry Strmelj, Stephen Theiler
ABSTRACT In Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), the Focusing task normally involves processing an unclear felt sense. In earlier research, Harte (2012) proposed an expanded version of the Focusing task designed to reprocess emotional pain relating to unresolved painful/traumatic events. More recently, Harte used the discovery phase of task analysis to refine the proposed model and develop a method for bringing
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Expanding the emotion-focused therapy task of focusing to process emotional injury Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-06-11 Melissa Harte, Barry Strmelj, Stephen Theiler
ABSTRACT This research investigated the processing and integration of past painful/traumatic events using an expanded model of the Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) task of Focusing. In previous research Harte proposed that processing emotional injuries by bringing previously incomplete memories back into awareness through activating felt sense, followed a particular sequence. The discovery phase of task
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Overcoming shame and aloneness: Emotion-focused group therapy for self-criticism Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-06-03 Sarah Thompson, Laura Girz
ABSTRACT Emotion-focused group therapy is a relatively new therapy format that utilizes individual emotion-focused therapy (EFT) work in a group setting to evoke and transform painful emotions, both directly and vicariously. Currently, EFT groups are being run at sites in Canada, Australia, Spain, Norway and the United States, and interest appears to be growing in offering these groups. Existing literature
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Towards an understanding of the experience of psychosis: the legacies of Rogers and Gendlin Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-04-03 Ross Crisp
ABSTRACT In this article, I discuss the continuing relevance of the theoretical perspectives of Rogers and Gendlin for persons with psychosis experience (PE) and practitioners of person-centered therapy (PCT). Persons with PE have indicated in recent surveys and qualitative studies that they experienced a ‘turning point’ in their lives when they encountered persons who took a genuine interest in them
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Co-experiencing psychotherapy explained in a dialogue Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-04-03 Fyodor Vasilyuk, Jeffrey Cornelius-White, Fedor Shankov
ABSTRACT Co-experiencing psychotherapy was developed in Russia by Fyodor Vasilyuk and his colleagues after an impactful encounter with Carl Rogers. Through an interview with Jeffrey Cornelius-White, with Fedor Shankov serving as translator and later contributor after Vasilyuk’s death, the ideology and methodology of co-experiencing psychotherapy is explored. Fyodor Vasilyuk addresses the phenomenology
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The power of hope person-centered perspectives on contemporary personal and societal challenges Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-04-03 Peter F. Schmid
ABSTRACT Hope is not about the future. It denotes an existential human way of being and way of being within the present. 'Dum spiro, spero (As long as I breathe, I hope)' characterizes its fundamental aspect in life. Hope is not optimism towards the outlook, not an expectation of positive outcomes. Hope is a specific quality of being a person in the meaning of being fully oneself and being fully with
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The tyranny of hope and the transformative tendency Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-04-03 Manu Bazzano
ABSTRACT Despite its adherence to organismic experiencing, person-centered therapy is the receptacle of second-hand metaphysics. These are evident in the notion of the formative tendency. The latter, ‘observed in stellar space and in human beings’, is a teleological model of organic development: it assumes an order directing development towards an end. It is a shadow of God, the powerful other that
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Academies of hope: a transformative turn for person-centered practice Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-04-03 Maureen O’Hara
ABSTRACT In the turbulent times of the 1960s and 1970s in Europe and the US a cultural upheaval of predominantly young people challenged the structures, habits and institutions that underpinned the Modern industrial worldview that had originated in the Enlightenment. Though resisted by the establishment, the counter-cultural challenge nevertheless succeeded in loosening constraints of industrial consciousness
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Inter-personal congruence: the social contracts of client-centered and person-centered therapies Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Marvin Frankel, Mary Johnson, Roxane Polak
ABSTRACT Persons are inter-personally congruent to the extent that their behavior is consistent with their social contracts with others. This view is contrary to Rogers’ intra-personal view of congruence, which holds that a person is congruent to the extent that there is no discrepancy between ‘the self as perceived and the actual experience of the organism’. The differences in the social contracts
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Correlations among focusing attitudes, psychological competitive abilities and public self-consciousness in college athletes Person-Centered & Experiential Psychotherapies Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Kei Yoshiwara, Hironobu Tsuchiya
ABSTRACT Focusing has been used in various fields. However, there are few studies on focusing in the field of sports. Correlations between focusing attitudes and psychological competitive abilities were investigated to provide psychological support for athletes by focusing. Public self-consciousness was considered a parameter mediating between focusing attitudes and psychological competitive abilities
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