I feel sure that trainees will also find the 'Resources' chapter in Merry helpful too - it leaves them with somewhere to go. He co-founded the British Association for the Person-Centred Approach (BAPCA) in 1989 and was editor of the BAPCA journal Person-Centred Practice until his untimely death in August 2004. Tony Merry (1948–2004) was Reader in Psychology at the University of East London and taught on postgraduate and undergraduate courses in counselling and counselling psychology.

Merry grounds person-centred counselling in its ontological foundations and shows how theory informs our practice and how the counsellor’s attitudes are essential to their practice.

Learning and Being in Person-Centred Counselling is a classic textbook that provides essential reading for all person-centred counselling students and experienced practitioners alike. It might also de-mystify what Counselling is about and therefore help you to make the most of counselling sessions. This process-focused reflexivity, so essential in person-centred practice, makes this newly revised version invaluable and important for readers of all backgrounds. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

I anticipate that trainees will especially welcome the additions to the Merry book about placements (chapter six, 'Training Issues: Client work and personal development') and Supervision (chapter seven). British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (2018) Ethical framework for the counselling professions. If I could only have one book on PCT this would be it, Merry has distilled down all of the important texts into one, modern, relatively easy read here.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Excellant book for anyone, at any level of understanding, to develop a sound understanding of person centred history, theory and practice. The book invites readers to engage deeply with how they might honestly ‘live the theory’ of the person-centred approach. It is heavily referenced, beautifully so, and so leads you to many more sources to use for assignments (if that is your purpose, which I suspect at this level of publication it would be). The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Learning and Being in Person-Centred Counselling has inspired and guided thousands of counselling students since it was first published in 1999. She is a former Convenor for the British Association for the Person-Centred Approach (BAPCA) and a former board member of the World Association for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies (WAPECP). Many cutting edge topics are included such as discussions about human nature, multi-cultural awareness and time-limited practice. 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. Despite being first published more than 20 years ago, this book remains relevant to contemporary person-centred counselling practice.There are no easy routes to becoming a person-centred counsellor, but this book is surely one of the best guides to anyone striving towards learning and being within this approach. The book Learning and Being in Person-Centred Counselling by Tony Merry has inspired and guided thousands of counselling students since it was first published in 1999. Tony was Reader in Psychology at the University of East London and taught on postgraduate and undergraduate courses in counselling and counselling psychology. It is written in clear and accessible language, with exercises and checklists to prompt the reader’s own thinking and learning.