Applying the Person-Centred Approach to Global, Social and Personal Crises

Against the backdrop of current debates in society about mental health and responses to crises, this edited volume examines the person-centred approach (PCA) as a vital framework for addressing contemporary mental health challenges and promoting psychosocial resilience across diverse cultural contexts. This book tackles a range of themes and topics that reflect challenging, contemporary global, social, and personal issues, such as war and conflict, social care, grief and loss, artificial intelligence, and neurodiversity. Chapters explore the universal issues that face the person-centred, experiential, and humanistic counselling communities in our current times, as well as the barriers to addressing these issues, and the models of good, innovative practice that have sought to tackle them. This book demonstrates how non-directivity proves to be crucial for affecting meaningful change for the self. Presenting first-hand practitioner experience and guidance, this book will be of significant value amidst current dialogue and debate on the value of the PCA when working with people and organisations in times of crises. Focusing on the wider application of the PCA beyond the therapy room and the response it offers to current societal challenges, this book will be essential reading for person-centred practitioners, counselling researchers and policymakers interested in crises, conflicts, and social changes.

Mairi McMenamin is an independent Person-Centred Counsellor, Supervisor and Trainer, UK. Kate Munro is an independent consultant in Person-Centred Education, UK.

Foreword By Yana Gololob Introduction Section 1: Global Challenges, Global Issues 1 The Person-Centred Approach in Global Challenge and Global Change Susanna Markowitsch 2 Working With Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Unaccompanied Children in Greece: The Challenges of Working with Global Issues Alex Vallidis and Elektra Diakolambrianou 3 Applying the Person-Centred Approach in a Time of War: Working across Modalities to Deliver Support and Supervision to Those in a War Zone Mairi McMenamin and Terry Daly Section 2: The Person-Centred Approach and Social Change 4 Applying the Person-Centred Approach to a Recruitment Crisis in Social Care Terry Daly and Kate Munro 5 Artificial Intelligence, Technology Evolution and the Person-Centred Approach Gareth Pierce 6 Neurodiversity and the Person-Centred Approach: Am I Doing This Right? Sonny Hallett Section 3: The Person-Centred Approach in Universal Issues and Personal Trauma 7 The Person-Centred Approach and Working with Ex-convicts: Facilitating the Return Elektra Diakolambrianou 8 The Value of the Person-Centred Approach When Discussing Death and Dying Stephanie Hutchinson 9 The Person-Centred Approach Working with Relationships: Working Therapeutically on the Cliff Edge Jacquelyn Pratt 10 Let's Talk about Baby Loss: A Person-Centred Approach to 'Being Alongside' Bereaved Parents Jen Keppie Afterword