Therapeutic presence allows mental health practitioners to engage more deeply with their clients and build a healing therapeutic alliance. This book outlines ea

The authors present their empirically based model of therapeutic presence, along with practical, experiential exercises for cultivating presence.

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Healing is often discussed but infrequently studied. Schenck and Churchill provide a systematic approach to the elements that make clinician-patient interaction

Written by a diverse range of expert contributors, unified by a relational, ethics-based reading of person-centred theory and practice, this seminal text is the