RELATIONSHIP-CENTERED COUNSELING - A HUMANISTIC MODEL OF INTEGRATION

Relationship-centered counseling is a development in the client-center ed tradition. It represents a humanistic integration that gives primac y to the humanizing and counseling relationship, conceives technical e xpertise as the instrumental extension of relationship, and affirms th e necessity for an in-depth synthesis of both for effective counseling . Significant findings from contemporary process and outcome research are presented as supportively consistent with the relationship-centere d integration, which has implications for research, practice, and trai ning.