The reality game : a guide to humanistic counselling and psychotherapy / John Rowan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowan, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanistic counseling.

Humanistic psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

xi, 250 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

In the years since it was first published, The Reality Game has become a classic text. For all those training and practising in humanistic and integrative psychotherapy it is an essential guide to good practice, and an excellent introduction to the skills used in individual and group therapy. This new edition has been updated to take into account changes in the field and John Rowan's own work, while still providing guidance on establishing and developing the relationship between counsellor and client, and covering: assessment; the initial interview; the opening session; aims; transference; resistance and supervision. This extensively revised new edition responds to the questions most often asked by trainees in these disciplines, and includes discussions of ethics and new chapters on transpersonal psychology, and on dialogical self theory. It will be a must read for psychotherapists and counsellors in practice and training, especially those involved in humanistic and integrative psychotherapy. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Psychotherapy, counselling, coaching and personal growth

Assessment or not

The initial interview

The opening sessions

Aims

Ways and means

The dialogical self and transference

Resistance

The process of development

Listening with the fourth ear

Research

Supervision

Ethics

The transpersonal

Bibliography

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

Appendix 4

Appendix 5

Appendix 6.

Notes:

Revised edition of the author's The reality game, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781138850118

113885011X

9781138850125

1138850128

OCLC:

929331824