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Person-centred Psychopathology: A Positive Psychology of Mental Health

Person-centred Psychopathology: A Positive Psychology of Mental Health

by StephenJoseph (Author), RichardWorsley (Editor)

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Synopsis

The person-centred approach offers a positive psychological vision of psychopathology. The crux of the person-centred approach is the meta-theoretical assumption that people have an inherent tendency toward growth, development, and integrated and optimal functioning, but that these do not happen automatically. For people to actualize their inherent optimal nature they require the right social environment. Without the right social environment the inherent tendency towards growth can become thwarted and usurped leading instead to psychological distress, and dysfunction. In this book, leading person centred theorists and practitioners from Europe and the United States present their work on facilitating personal growth and positive change in people who are experiencing psychological distress and dysfunction.Contributions cover person-centred thinking on antisocial personality, autism and Asperger's, childhood abuse, maternal depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, psychosis, and people with special needs, as well as theoretical contributions on critical psychology, human nature, existential thinking, the use of assessment and diagnosis, clinical psychology and reflective practice, the role of research, and practical issues related to working within psychiatric settings and the NHS. This book is an essential resource for all who wish to understand person-centred theory and apply its principles to mental health issues and their own professional practice.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 373
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: PCCS Books
Published: 15 Aug 2005
ISBN 10: 1898059691
ISBN 13: 9781898059691

Media Reviews
This is a ground-breaking book for the whole future of person-centred theory and practice. Until fairly recently the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic world dismissed the person-centred approach as not relevant for work with people with mental health diagnoses. The comprehensive collection of articles by international authors covers a range of ways in which person-centred theorists and practitioners and the closely allied positive psychologists bridge the gap between person-centred theory and practice and the medicalised world of psychiatry - I stronly recommend this book. Val Simanowitz, Counsellor and trainer. Therapy Today (UK) December 2005.
Author Bio
Stephen Joseph is at the University of Nottingham, where he is Professor of Psychology, Health and Social Care and the Convenor of the Counselling and Psychotherapy Cluster in the School of Education He is an HCPC registered health and counselling psychologist, and member of the British Psychological Society's Register of Psychologists Specialising in Psychotherapy. Stephen has edited two books for PCCS: Person-Centred Psychopathology and Person-Centred Practice. Richard Worsley has worked for a number of years as a person-centred counsellor, supervisor and trainer. He is also an Anglican priest. He has a particular interest in process in therapy, in spirituality, in philosophy and therapy, and in therapeutic groups. Richard works at the University of Warwick as a staff and student counsellor. In experiencing high-volume work with people with a wide range of presenting distress, he is even more convinced that people are unique, and process their experience in unique and creative ways. Contributors include: Barbara Brodley, Jerold Bozarth, Elaine Catterall, Catherine Clarke, Mick Cooper, Stephen Joseph, Jacky Knibbs, Leslie McCulloch, Marlis Portner, Gillian Proctor, Pete Sanders, Peter F. Schmid, Lisbeth Sommerbeck, Dion Van Werde, Margaret Warner, Paul Wilkins and Richard Worsley.