We hear about the effects of early abandonment, abuse and lack of attachment, but find that children's experiences are sanitised through medical diagnoses and frequently the 'help' offered is prescription drugs. This book examines how children are hurt in modern society.

Chronicles 16 years of scrutiny and practical development of civic accountability for the psychological therapies. This title shows how vested interests, seduced an otherwise uninterested government into bringing forward state regulation.

Covering both Pre-Therapy and contact work, this book is the English-language publication to introduce the applications, including individual counselling/psychotherapy, institutional psychiatric settings, work with special needs and learning disabilities, and dementia care.

A biography of Carl Rogers one of the great social revolutionaries of the twentieth century. It is for lecturers, students and practitioners of psychotherapy and education, where his writings have had so much influence. It is also for sociologists, social historians and interested lay people.

Leads the serious students to an appreciation of Unconditional Positive Regard. This title lets readers from various disciplines discover how contemporary person-centred therapists are thinking about, and working with, this 'core' condition.

Companion volume to 'This is Madness'. A compassionate and scholarly critique of the treatment of children, government policy, use of anti-depressants and other areas fundamental to mental health services. Contains views of service users and professionals.

Brings together a collection of writings by authors who have participated in and with groups over a period of thirty years, using the person-centred approach.

Peggy Natiello's collection of work has become a favourite amongst students on Person-Centred courses throughout the UK. It is a scholarly, much referenced work on collaborative power and gender issues.

Person-Centred Practice, the journal of the British Association for the Person-Centred Approach (BAPCA), was established in 1993 and published twice a year until 2004. With all but the latest issues out of print but in demand, PCCS Books published this selection of over thirty papers.

In the second edition of this hugely popular book, Tony Merry reorganised and updated the text to include the latest initiatives in the world of counselling and psychotherapy. It offers in-depth discussion of all aspects of person-centred counselling from its origins to current developments in theory and practice.

In this book Jerold Bozarth presents a collection of twenty revised papers and new writings on person-centred therapy representing over 40 years' work as an innovator and theoretician.

Genuineness, transparency, authenticity and realness are the terms used to convey the concept of congruence. This book focuses on, and collects critical explorations of, this therapeutic condition.

Presents a series of papers outlining genuine theory and practice for various counsellors and therapists, not only those of a person-centred persuasion.

Pre-therapy is a method for anyone wanting to work with people whose ability to establish and maintain psychological contact is impaired temporarily or permanently, by illness or injury, whether of organic or psychological origin.