Integrating common factors research and practice, Person-Centered Approaches for Counselors by H. D. Cornelius-White highlights the deep social justice roots of the approaches and shows counselors in training and experienced therapists how to integrate person-centered process and outcome measures to improve therapy outcomes. For each of the person-centered approaches covered (including classical, focusing, emotion-focused, intersubjective, and interdisciplinary orientations) this accessible book covers historical development, theory, process, evaluation, and application. Person-Centered Approaches for Counselors is part of the SAGE Theories for Counselors Series that includes Psychoanalytic Approaches for Counselors by Frederick Redekop and Cognitive Behavioral Approaches for Counselors by Diane Shea.

Chapter 1: The Therapist in Relationship Therapist and Relationship Factors The Necessary and Sufficient Conditions SummaryChapter 2: Client Contact, Incongruence, and Perception Client-Directed, Outcome Informed, Client Hero Actualizing Tendency Nondirective Attitude Conclusion SummaryChapter 3: Evolution of the Person-Centered Approach Classical Client-Centered or Nondirective Therapy Focusing Intersubjectivity Experiential, Emotion-Focused Interdisciplinary Research and Practice The Futurism of the Person-Centered Approach and Its Implications SummaryChapter 4: Multiculturalism Central Concepts in Multicultural Counseling Competence Understanding Client's Worldview: Cultural Elements to Empathy Culturally Appropriate Interventions and Unconditional Positive Regard Social Justice Advocacy Competencies History of Multiculturalism and the Person-Centered Approach Ethical and Religious Concepts and the Person-Centered Approach The Paradox: A Universal System of Adaptability to Differences SummaryChapter 5: A Case Illustration of Person-Centered Counseling Deena Casey Session One: First Encounter Session Two: Scared, Really Scared Session Three: Some Relief Session Four: A Possible Misunderstanding Session Five: Nonstop Talker Session Six: I Miss My Mom, Bad. She Was a Bitch to Deal With Session Seven: Talkative Again Sessions Eight and Nine: No Show Questions for Your Consideration SummaryChapter 6: Conclusion PCA Is Love Courageous, Compassionate Confrontation Perception Linking the Relational and the Client Conditions It Figures Understand, Verify You Understand, and Improve Power Within, Power With, Power Over The Ever-Reaching Actualization Process: Give and Receive Summary