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CONGRATULATIONS TO DR GODFREY BARRETT-LENNARD ON RECEIVING THE DOCTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY HONORARY DEGREE AT THE GRADUATION CEREMONY HELD ON MARCH, 26th, 2007.

Dr Barrett-Lennard is at the forefront of theory development in psychotherapy and counselling. He is well-known within the psychological community for pushing out boundaries, breaking new ground and extending or building onto understanding already gained, rather than from preserving ideas intact.

His interest in Carl Rogers' new therapy, led him to leave Western Australia in the 1950's to study with Carl Rogers at the University of Chicago, where he received his PhD.
His work is recognised as initiating and contributing, directly and through the work of others, to a major vein of research on the therapeutic relationship. This has led on to related study of many other kinds of interpersonal relationship and group relations.

His career has seen him involved in teaching, practice, program development and supervision and consultation with students across the United States and in Canada, Australia and the UK. He continues to publish and has authored many journal articles, book chapters and materials for research along with several books of his own, which can be viewed here.

His contribution to Murdoch University has spanned more than 20 years and continues. In 1984 he became a Visiting Fellow and later an Honrary Fellow in the School of Psychology.

Dr Barrett-Lennard has contributed his skills and experience to the development of new and innovative programs in the School of Psychology, particularly in the counselling sphere. He initiated training here in that field, and his work has helped to inspire and inform Murdoch's new Postgraduate Counselling Program.

The Godfrey Barrett-Lennard Counsellor Training Centre was launched in Cottesloe last year. Named in Dr Barrett-Lennard's honour, it provides affordable counselling and real world traning for Murdoch postgraduate students.

The School of Psychology would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Dr Barrett-Lennard on this acheivement.

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