Person-Centered Approaches for Counselors - Paperback

by Jeffrey H. D. Cornelius-White (Author)

Integrating common factors research and practice, Person-Centered Approaches for Counselors 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.

Author Biography

Jeffrey H. D. Cornelius-White is professor of counseling and coordinator of the graduate programs in counseling at Missouri State University and has held several adjunct appointments, including at the University of Missouri-Columbia in educational leadership and policy analysis, University of Vienna (Austria) in computer science management, and National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia) in psychology. He is the former chair of the World Association for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling and former editor of The Person-Centered Journal. He has served as a reviewer for dozens of professional journals in counseling, education, and psychology and has published approximately 100 works, including the SAGE book Learner-Centered Instruction (2010). His contributions have unusual breadth but most are related to the person-centered approach and multicultural issues.