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The role of empathy in personality change

The Role of Empathy In Personality Change: What is the role of empathy in personality change during therapy? A Person-Centred Exploration. The role of empathy in personality change will be explored in this essay. I will examine the relationship that empathy has with the other five “necessary and sufficient conditions” (Rogers 1957, p.95) and the

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Is person-centred experiential psychotherapy an effective therapeutic approach for post-traumatic stress?

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.

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The impact of person-centred theory on counselling and psychotherapy practice

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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