Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14779757.2022.2066833
H. K. Morgan
Tenei au, Tenei au Here I am, Here I am The power of my karakia for swift movement Ko te hokai-Nuku Swiftly moving over the earth. Ko te hokai Rangi, Swiftly moving through the heavens Ko te hokai o to tīpuna The swift movement of your ancestor A Tane-nui-a-rangi Tane-nui-a-rangi Ki Tihi-i-manono Who climbed up I rokohina atu ra To the isolated realms To the summit of Manono Ko Io –Matua-Kore anake And there found Io-the-parentless alone. I riro iho ai He bought back down Ngā kete ō te wānanga The baskets of knowledge. Ko te kete Tuauri A basket called Tuauri Ko te kete Tuatea A basket called Tuatea Ko te kete Aronui A basket called Aronui Ka tiritiria, Ka Poupou a Portioned out, Planted Kia Papatuanuku In Mother earth. Ka puta te ira tangata The life principle of humankind. Ki te whai ao Comes forth into the dawn Ki te Ao Marama. Into the world of light. Tihei mauri ora. I sneeze, there is life.
Tenei au, Tenei au，我在这里，我在这里我的卡拉奇亚的力量让我快速移动Ko, hokai-Nuku在地球上快速移动。Ko, hokai, Rangi，迅速穿越天堂Ko, hokai, o，到，t, puna你的祖先，A, Tane-nui-a-rangi, Tane-nui-a-rangi Ki, tihi - I, Manono的快速移动，他爬上，I, rokohina, atu, ra，到孤立的领域，到，Manono, Ko, Io, matua, kore anake的顶峰，在那里发现，Io，没有父母的孤独。他买回了Ngā kete ā te wānanga知识的篮子。Ko te kete Tuauri一个篮子叫做Tuauri Ko te kete Tuatea一个篮子叫做Tuatea Ko te kete Aronui一个篮子叫做Aronui Ka tiritiria, Ka Poupou被分配，在大地母亲中种植Kia Papatuanuku。Ka puta The ira tangata人类的生活原则。基阿阿奥出现在黎明，基阿阿阿马拉玛。进入光明的世界。这是毛里奥拉。我打喷嚏，还有生命。
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14779757.2022.2066562
Keith Tudor
ABSTRACT This article, which is an extensively revised version of a paper given at PCE2021, discusses Rogers’ ‘relationship therapy’. It argues that this original relational turn needs to be revisited and re-envisioned, especially if Rogerian and person-centered and experiential therapies are to seed, grow, and flourish in different soil from that whence it originally sprung. The article is framed in terms of one of the themes of the conference, that is, contact, culture, and context. Thus, the first part of the article considers the history of relationship therapy (that is, contacting our history); the second part acknowledges the original conceptual framework of client-centered psychology and discusses two concepts that are based on and embody relationship therapy, i.e. diagnosis and contact (thereby representing the culture of this approach to psychology); and the third part offers some reflections how person-centered theory and practice needs to adapt to local conditions (that is, to its context) if it is to continue to be relational and relevant.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14779757.2022.2067586
Julia Ioane
ABSTRACT Pasifika communities in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) are a vibrant, diverse and heterogenous population. Following their migration to Aotearoa NZ they experienced the challenges of western world concepts, ideologies and frameworks being imposed on their worldview(s), a process that has led to social and economic disparities alongside health inequities which include mental distress and ill-health. This article explores whether there is a place for person-centered experiential psychotherapy and counseling within a worldview of Pasifika people in Aotearoa NZ. This will also have relevance to Polynesian, indigenous and ethnic minority communities at a global level. Drawing on Pasifika methodologies, and specifically a Tongan one, this article explores a Pasifika person-centered approach that is informed by Pasifika values and practice. It concludes with recommendations for the field of person-centered experiential psychotherapy and counseling when working with Pasifika communities.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14779757.2022.2066565
D. Green, A. Levey, Heleina Waimoana Dalton
ABSTRACT Integrating creative processes within therapeutic encounters encourages us to be in contact on many levels and layers. Creativity may bring us into contact with our inner world and knowings, with the intersubjective space we share with others and with the world around us. This creative contact calls us into action, experimentation, imagination, risk taking, embodiment, and it cultivates our ability to be responsive. Three creative arts therapists write expressively into a hybrid online/in person workshop they facilitated during PCE2021. While witnessed by online observers, the workshop invited in-person participants to use movement, visual art-making, creative writing, and enactment to reflexively explore and experiment with their own dynamic ‘contact boundary’. This personal inquiry was then opened to an experience of how others in the group may make contact and place boundaries in different ways and places. The authors thread creative narration alongside descriptions of theories informing their choice of various processes. This article invites the reader into the workshop experience aiming to facilitate vicarious exploration of each reader’s own contact boundary in relation to self and others, and open consideration of movement as a sometimes confronting but often rewarding therapeutic mode.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14779757.2022.2067780
Louise Embleton Tudor
ABSTRACT This article, which is based on a keynote speech delivered to PCE2021, takes the first theme of the conference, Tihei mauri ora, as a framework with which to examine the role of breath in well-being and the ways in which we connect and disconnect from ourselves and others. The theoretical context of the article is the application of a neuroscientifically-informed perspective on and in person-centered and experiential psychotherapy. The cultural context of the article is the experience of therapeutic practice and life in contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand.
本文基于在PCE2021上发表的主题演讲，以会议的第一个主题“Tihei mauri ora”为框架，研究呼吸在健康中的作用，以及我们与自己和他人联系和分离的方式。这篇文章的理论背景是在以人为中心的经验心理治疗中应用神经科学的观点。这篇文章的文化背景是当代新西兰奥特罗阿的治疗实践和生活经验。
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14779757.2022.2067781
E. Green
ABSTRACT This article aims to provoke thinking about whiteness, culture and identity in relation to psychotherapy practice. The writing concludes with a poem that situates the author within an enriched environment that includes her ancestors and cultural heritage. Poetry illuminates hard to reach places, surfacing lived experiences that might otherwise hide in their everydayness. For the white therapist a poetic imagination might bring whiteness forth from invisibility, laying it bare for closer inspection, facilitating greater understandings and openness. The author, a white therapist and researcher, uses poetic inquiry, to foster an enhanced cultural awareness with a view to seeing self and ‘other’ afresh. The article invites the white person-centered therapist to engage with their own self-understandings to facilitate enhanced cultural engagement, sensitivity and awareness.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-10DOI: 10.1080/14779757.2022.2028664
Danny Gehlen, Heinz Zimmer
ABSTRACT Person-centered psychotherapists can improve therapeutic attunement by using well-designed theories and self-report questionnaires. However, previous evaluations of the Focusing Manner Scale (FMS) did not consider item-level information as a means to improve Focusing attitude measurement. Thus, we adapted a German FMS-A.G and applied Rasch analysis to evaluate it with German undergraduates (N = 687). An exploratory factor analysis replicated the original Japanese version’s (FMS-A.J) low signal-to-noise ratio and three-factorial structure (Acting, Attending, Distancing; α = .76, .75, .62). Rasch analysis indicated each scale’s item distribution reduced reliability and construct validity: neither item wordings nor previous construct definitions targeted higher Focusing attitude levels. Moreover, we could not replicate concurrent validity with the General Health Questionnaire. Yet, Acting and Attending converged with the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness, especially with Body-Listening (r = .45, .52). Our evidence suggests that Acting and Attending can be used for research purposes, but Distancing should be improved. Rasch analysis provides practically useful results that can improve how we understand and assess Focusing attitudes.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-08DOI: 10.1080/14779757.2022.2028665
Jay Crowter
ABSTRACT In recent years, the question of what is best for trans individuals has been hotly debated. This paper takes Rogers’ Theory of Personality and explores it alongside the experiences of trans individuals so as to add a Person-Centered perspective to the discourse. It is grounded in an understanding of the distress of not being oneself and explores in detail the barriers trans individuals can face on their journey to authenticity. Many of these barriers are societal attitudes that become internalized as conditions of worth. The most potent remedy to such conditions are the same for trans people as the rest of humanity: unconditional prizing, freedom to move in any direction and a trust in an individual as the expert in themselves. While many of us may apply these Rogerian attitudes to all our clients, there is no harm and great benefit to be found in explicitly reviewing them with regard to trans experiences. This paper reaffirms the great benefit of the person-centered approach in freeing us all to be more ourselves and reminds us of our responsibility to shape a society where everyone is afforded the greatest opportunity to live without conditionality or discrimination.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-07DOI: 10.1080/14779757.2022.2028663
P. Abbey, P. Gubi
ABSTRACT This study explores how trainee counselors, who have a Christian faith, experience the impact of person-centered counselor training on their faith. The research question was: ‘How do trainee counsellors who have a Christian faith experience the impact of person-centred counsellor training on their faith?’ The aims were: to explore the possible impact of person-centered counselor training on Christian faith; to explore trainees’ level of comfort at exploring issues of faith on the course; and to understand how counselor trainees who have a Christian faith perceive their faith ‘fits’ with person-centered theory. The data were collected using semi-structured interviews and analyzed using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Findings point to the centrality of God within the process of becoming a person-centered counselor, from the decision to train, to interpretation of theory. All participants reported no, or limited, input from tutors on religious and spiritual issues. Differing levels of comfort were felt in the disclosure and exploration of their religious faith whilst training, citing supervisors of Christian faith or church members as the main sources of support with religious or spiritual issues. All participants experienced changes to their religious beliefs and practices, which occurred during and after the course of study.
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ABSTRACT Making sense of our existence is one of the most demanding aspects of being human. Studies have shown that meaning is robustly associated with well-being and mental health. In this study with 358 Dutch-speaking participants during the covid-19 pandemic, we tested if the practice of contacting one’s felt sense (focusing attitude) would predict life satisfaction, psychological distress, and existential anxiety. We also tested whether the effect of this focusing attitude would be partially mediated by the experience of meaning in life. Our hypotheses were confirmed. This suggests that the focusing attitude predicts more life satisfaction, less psychological distress, and less existential anxiety. The associations are also partially mediated by the experience of meaning in life. Focusing training variables suggested that attending one’s felt sense can be learned. However, our study also suggests that focusing-partnership deserves closer study.
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