Consulting and psychotherapy. Latest approaches

One of the most famous works of Charles Rogers, a bright representative of humanistic psychology, the founder of innovative for its time the directions of psychotherapy. The method of client-centered therapy developed by it is a completely original and innovative against the background of a policy assistance dominant, then a policy assistance approach is set out in this book in his practical aspect. This is a purely applied book, in it in a structured, compressed Rogers shape clearly and consistently set out the main principles and features of its therapeutic method, accompanying its story with bright and indicative examples. This work gives exhaustive answers to the most relevant questions: "What are the conditions for successful therapy?", "How to help a person in need of psychological assistance?" This book will tell you how to talk to the client, how to behave with him, how to treat him, from which it is necessary to refrain what techniques are effective, and which are not. Here, a concentrated form presents the results of the huge work done at one time by Rogers in search of the optimal form of therapeutic interaction. "Since 1928, for almost thirty years, I spent an average of 15 to 20 hours a week, excluding vacation time, in attempts to understand these people and provide them with therapeutic assistance ... From these hours and my relationship with these people I carried out most of my insights regarding the meaning of therapy, the dynamics of interpersonal relationships, the structure and functioning of the individual "- wrote Rogers. And this book is the essence of this unique experience. For psychologists, teachers, social workers, beginners and practitioners of psychotherapists, as well as a wide range of readers interested in applied aspects of psychology