Review of Person-centered and experiential therapies work: A review of the research on counselling, psychotherapy and related practices.

Reviews the book, Person-Centered and Experiential Therapies Work: A Review of the Research on Counselling, Psychotherapy and Related Practices edited by M. Cooper, J. C. Watson, and D. Hölldampf (2010). The title of this book makes a bold assertion: 'Person-centered and experiential therapies work'. Eighteen authors, all leading experts in their fields, review the available evidence to support this assertion across a range of sectors and person-centered and experiential (PCE) research tools and methods. They also highlight key areas of the evidence base that need to be developed to create more coherent and effective research for the future. This is an important book, which succeeds in making complex topics accessible and clear, although inevitably a book that is more likely to be returned to many times as a resource to be tapped rather than one to be read cover to cover. Such is the wealth of information in this book that it is clear that the evidence base already in existence may have been under-valued and also that there is a bright future for further developing our (and policy makers') understanding.