Practicing Client-Centered Therapy: Selected Writings of Barbara Temaner Brodley

Brodley's writings will serve a variety of audiences: those wanting to learn the first steps of how to be with a client; experienced therapists who are aware of the complexity of this approach and want to continue exploring theoretical and practice issues; educators who want to teach a clear distillation of Rogers' theory and practice in relation to other theories

Table of Contents:
Forewords 1 Why do I want to be a therapist? Memo to John Shlien 2 A Chicago client-centered therapy: Nondirective and nonexperiential 3 Why are there so few client-centered therapists when so many people around the world acknowledge Carl Rogers' influence? The Ethical Foundation of Client-Centered Therapy 4 Ethics in psychotherapy 5 The nondirective attitude in client-centered therapy 6 Client-centered values limit the application of research findings: An issue for discussion The Theory of Client-Centered Therapy 7 Congruence and its relation to communication in client-centered therapy 8 Empathic understanding and feelings in client-centered therapy 9 Unconditional positive regard as communicated through verbal behavior in client-centered therapy (with C. Schneider) 10 Personal presence in client-centered therapy 11 The actualizing tendency concept in client-centered theory Implementation of the Values and Attitudes in an Expressive Client-Centered Therapy 12 The empathic understanding response process 13 Client-centered: An expressive therapy 14 Criteria for making empathic responses in client-centered therapy 15 Reasons for responses expressing the therapist's frame of reference in client-centered therapy 16 Considerations when responding to questions and requests in client-centered therapy 17 The therapeutic clinical interview: Guidelines for beginning practice 18 Can one use techniques and still be client-centered? (with A. F. Brody) 19 An introduction to the application of client-centered theory to therapy with two persons together 20 Client-centered couple therapy 21 Summary of an interview with Barbara Temaner Brodley: Views of the nondirective attitude in couple and family therapy (Noriko Motomasa) 22 Email to Maureen O'Hara on brief therapy Distinguishing Client-Centered Therapy 23 Client-centered and experiential: Two different therapies 24 Concerning "transference," "counter transference," and other psychoanalytically developed concepts from a client/person-centered perspective 25 Some observations of Carl Rogers' behavior in therapy interviews 26 Observations of empathic understanding in two client-centered therapists Session Transcripts 27 Client-centered demonstration interview 2 with Alejandra 28 Client-centered demonstration interview 3 with Alejandra 29 Client-centered demonstration interview 4 with Alejandra Closing Section 30 Garden of women Historical bibliography