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Client-Centered Therapy: Its Current Practice, Implications, and Theory
Carl R. Rogers’s 1951 book describes client-centred therapy and its implications for practice and theory.
Book details
Author of listed edition: Carl R. Rogers
Edition: 1951 Houghton Mifflin edition
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Edition year: 1951
Language and origin: English (United States)
Form and genre: Clinical & Theoretical Monograph
Level: Intermediate
Historical era: 1940–1959 · Object Relations, Existential & Client-Centred
Covers: Client-centred therapy and its theoretical framework; Counselling, play therapy and group work; Applications beyond individual therapy
APA 7th reference: Rogers, C. R. (1951). Client-centered therapy: Its current practice, implications, and theory. Houghton Mifflin.
What it is
Client-Centered Therapy is a 1951 book by Carl R. Rogers. The edition listed here was published by Houghton Mifflin, with chapters contributed by Elaine Dorfman, Thomas Gordon and Nicholas Hobbs.
What it covers
The book sets out Rogers’s client-centred approach and discusses its implications for practice and theory. Its account should be read as a historical clinical framework.
Theory and evidence
Rogers placed importance on the therapeutic relationship. His theoretical account of change should not be taken as a guarantee that a particular response will help every person.
Limits of this entry
The library catalogue and a Library of Congress finding aid were consulted; the complete book and paired volume were not reviewed. This record does not establish the effectiveness of a treatment.
Paired academic and clinical scholarship
Paired work: Psychotherapy and Personality Change: Coordinated Research Studies in the Client-Centered Approach (Carl R. Rogers and Rosalind F. Dymond (Eds.), 1954)
Reference: Rogers, C. R., & Dymond, R. F. (Eds.). (1954). Psychotherapy and personality change: Coordinated research studies in the client-centered approach. University of Chicago Press.
A later edited collection of research on the client-centred approach. The complete volume was not reviewed for this entry.
Source-mapped claims and evidence notes
Claim 1: The 1951 book includes contributions by Elaine Dorfman, Thomas Gordon and Nicholas Hobbs. (The catalogue was checked; the complete book was not reviewed.) [Source 2: Neapolis University Pafos Library. Client-centered therapy, catalogue record.]
Sources and inspection notes
Supports: Library catalogue identifies the author, title and 1951 Houghton Mifflin publication. The complete book was not reviewed.
Neapolis University Pafos Library. Client-centered therapy, catalogue record.
Supports: Catalogue names the three chapter contributors and records the 1951 Boston edition.
Library of Congress. Carl R. Rogers Papers, finding aid.
Supports: Chronology identifies the 1951 publication and describes Rogers’s career and client-centred approach.