Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapies
Journal of the World Association for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling
Co-editors: Dave Mearns, Scotland • Peter F. Schmid, Austria • William B. Stiles, USA • Jeanne C. Watson, Canada |
| Dave Mearns is Professor of Counselling and retired Director of the Counselling Unit in the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. He has authored or co-authored seven books, including Person-Centred Counselling Training, Person-Centred Therapy Today, Person-Centred Counselling in Action and Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Website link: www.davemearns.com. |
| Peter F. Schmid is Head of the Department for the Science of Person-Centred Psychotherapy at the Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, and Associate Professor at the University of Graz, Styria; person-centered psychotherapist, practical theologian and pastoral psychologist; founder of person-centered training and further training in Austria, co-director of the Academy for Counseling and Psychotherapy of the Austrian Institute for Person-Centered Studies (IPS of APG) and co-founder of both, the World Association (WAPCEPC) and the European Network (NEAPCEPC). He has authored and co-authored fourteen books and numerous articles about the anthropology and further developments of the Person-Centered Approach in German and English. He is one of the Editors of the international person-centered and experiential journal (in the German language) PERSON. His main interest is in the genuine development of the Person-Centered Approach and psychotherapy as dialogue. He is also webmaster of The Person-Centered Website at www.pca-online.net. Website: www.pfs-online.at |
| William B. Stiles is a professor of clinical psychology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1972. He taught previously at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and he has held visiting positions at the Universities of Sheffield and Leeds in England, at Massey University in New Zealand, and at the University of Joensuu in Finland. He is the author of Describing Talk: A Taxonomy of Verbal Response Modes. He has been president of the Society for Psychotherapy Research and North American Editor of Psychotherapy Research. Website: http://www.users.muohio.edu/stileswb. |
Jeanne C. Watson, Ph.D. (Clin.Psych.) is a professor in counseling psychology at OISE / University of Toronto, Canada. She graduated in 1993 from York University, Toronto where she trained in client-centered therapy with Laura Rice. Later she expanded her person-centered approach to include an emotion focused techniques in her work with individuals and couples when she was Project Director on the York Depression Project with Leslie Greenberg and Laura Rice.
Dr. Watson has co-authored and edited six books on counseling practice, including Learning Emotion Focused Therapy: The process experiential approach to change (2003); Expressing Emotion: Myths, Realities and Therapeutic Strategies (1999); Client-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy in the 21st Century: Advances in theory research and practice (2002); Handbook of Experiential Psychotherapy (1998); Process-Experiential Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Depression (2005); and most recently Case Studies in Emotion Focused Treatment of Depression with Drs. Rhonda Goldman and Leslie Greenberg in 2007, as well as more than 40 articles and chapters.
Dr. Watson conducts research on the process and outcome of emotion focused therapy with an emphasis on empathy, the working alliance, depression, and emotional expression. In 2001 she received the “Outstanding Early Achievement Award” from the International Society for Psychotherapy Research. She is currently examining differences between emotion focused therapy and cognitive behaviour therapy in the treatment of depression. She gives workshops in Emotion Focused Therapy in Europe and Canada and teaches courses in counseling theory and practice to Masters and Ph.D. students in the Counseling Psychology program at the University of Toronto. Dr. Watson maintains a part-time private practice in Toronto.
Robert Elliott left the Editorial Board at the end of June 2007.
Bill Stiles • Peter F. Schmid • Pete Sanders (publisher) • Dave Mearns • Elke Lambers (chair board WAPCEPC) • Robert Elliott at the editors' meeting in Potsdam, July 2006
