A systematic review of the existing literature on the person-centred experiential approach to post-traumatic stress and post-traumatic growth to establish if it is an effective therapeutic approach. Submitted as part of my Masters in Counselling & Psychotherapy.
A brief history on the development of a ‘radical’ approach The person-centred approach was developed by the psychologist, Dr Carl Rogers from 1940 onwards. Prior to this, the dominant form of therapy was psychoanalytic psychotherapy (Feltham, 2013), an approach developed by Sigmund Freud in the 1890’s which focused largely on interpretation and analysis of past
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Since training as a Person-Centred (PC) Experiential Counsellor & Psychotherapist, it has surprised me how misunderstood and under-appreciated the approach is. I feel it is somehow regarded as a ‘base’ for other more ‘serious’ modalities, a starting point from which more ‘effective’ approaches or interventions must then be introduced. The depth and complexity of the
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