`This is a book that the person-centered psychotherapy community has been waiting for ... this book opens a creative space in which the ongoing conversation about therapeutic efficacy in times of shrinking resources can be successfully engaged' - Professor Maureen O'Hara, Chair, Department of Psychology, National University, La Jolla, California

`A wide-ranging and scholarly book which shows that person-centred therapy is fully alive to the challenges of the twenty-first century and is breaking new ground both clinically and theoretically' - Professor Brian Thorne, Emeritus Professor of Counselling, University of East Anglia

"Likely to be of interest to anyone involved in counselling" -

Times Higher Educaton Magazine, May 2009

Can the person-centred approach work in time-limited psychotherapy and counselling? This is a question that many practitioners grapple with as demand for brief therapy increases - particularly in the public sector. Brief Person-Centred Therapies is the first book to tackle the subject, bringing together the experience and insights of a leading international team of person-centred therapists.

The book examines the philosophical and theoretical 'fit' between the person-centred approach and brief therapy. It also explores the issues which arise when working briefly in a range of different settings, including primary care, higher education, business, and prison, with couples and groups.

Brief Person-Centred Therapies is essential reading for all person-centred trainees and for practitioners who want to work in services where brief or time-limited work is required or favoured.

Keith Tudor is a UKCP registered psychotherapist, and has a private/independent practice in Sheffield offering therapy, supervision and consultancy.

Introduction - Keith Tudor
Time, Limits, and Person-Centred Therapies - Keith Tudor
PART ONE: INTEGRATING PERSON-CENTRED AND EXPERIENTIAL THERAPIES
Integrative Experiential Psychotherapy in Brief - Mia Leijssen and Robert Elliott
Getting the Most from the Therapy Hour - Bala Jaison
Integrating Experiential and Brief Therapy
Trauma Incident Reduction and Metapsychology Techniques - Henry Whitfield
Operationalising Rogerian Theory in a Brief Therapy Practice
PART TWO: PRACTICE IN CONTEXT
Time-Limited, Client-Centered Psychotherapy - Carl R. Rogers, Madge K. Lewis and John M. Shlien
One case
Working Sensitively with Time - Paul McGahey
Person-Centred Therapy in a University Counselling Service
¿In the World, But Not Of It¿ - Isabel Gibbard
Person-Centred Counselling in Primary Care
Expert Systems versus Moments of Volatility - Pam Winter
A Person-Centred Therapist¿s View of Employee Assistance Programmes
Overcoming the Effects of An Aggravated Burglary - Henry Whitfield
Trauma Incident Reduction in Practice
Treat Every Session As if it¿s the Last One - Barrie Hopwood
Person-Centred Counselling with Young People in a Young Offenders¿ Institution
Brief Encounters - Keith Tudor
Time-Conscious Therapy with Couples
A Process of Transformation - Très Roche
Time-Limited Group Counselling with Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Epilogue - Keith Tudor