Person-Centred Facilitation

How can social workers, psychologists and counsellors improve
communication with their clients? What can these facilitators do to
enhance their listening and empathic skills? How can they create an
environment of trust in which clients - be they individuals, goups,
families, or communities - can develop and grow effectively?

Person-Centred Facilitation presents the theory and practice
of the person-centred approach to facilitating counselling, as developed
by Carl Rogers. The text provides an introduction to the person-centred
approach in relation to individuals, groups, families and communities.
It offers a solid theoretical grounding which supports both academic
learning and applied practice, and guides readers'
understanding
and self-development.

Revised and updated, the fourth edition integrates values from an
African cultural perspective, and reflects the importance of social
justice as an element of the developmental counselling process. It
offers a wealth of South African case studies, an entirely new section
on family counselling, and an expanded focus on group work counselling.
Other expanded areas include aspects of constructivism; cross-cultural
communication; people in conflict, and the self of the facilitator, the
latter two aspects having been integrated into the text of the various
chapters.