02a_Humanistic/Constructivist: Person Centered Therapy Flashcards
Humanistic Psychotherapies:
Shared Characteristics
Phenomenological Approach
Focus on current behaviors
Self-determination and self-actualization
Therapy is authentic, collaborative, and egalitarian
Rejection of diagnostic labels
Humanistic Psychotherapies:
Phenomenological Approach
In order to understand a person, one must understand their subjective experience
Humanistic and Constructivist Psychotherapies:
Five Main Approaches
Person-Centered Therapy
Gestalt Therapy
Existential Therapy
Reality Therapy
Personal Construct Therapy
Carl Roger’s Person-Centered Therapy:
Client-centered
All people have an innate “self actualizing tendency”
Person-Centered Therapy:
Central Concept of Personality Theory
The self must remain unified, organized, and whole in order to achieve self-actualization
Person-Centered Therapy:
View of Maladaptive Behavior
Incongruence between self and experience
When individual experiences conditions of worth
e.g. Conditional Positive Regard
Person-Centered Therapy:
Incongruence
Difference between sense of self (how one acts), and one’s experience in the world (expectations of others)
Leads to Anxiety
Person-Centered Therapy:
Conceptualization of Anxiety
Anxiety = Result of Incongruence
Signal that the unified self is being threatened
Person-Centered Therapy:
Primary Therapy Goal
Congruence between self and experience
Person-Centered Therapy:
Role of Therapeutic Environment
Facilitate congruence between self and experience
Activate inherent tendency toward self-actualization
Person-Centered Therapy:
Unconditional Positive Regard
Genuine care about the client
Affirmation of client’s worth as a person
Acceptance of client without evaluation
Person-Centered Therapy:
Genuineness
*Self-disclosure is not always necessary, just honest communication of feelings when appropriate
Person-Centered Therapy:
Accurate Empathic Understanding
Therapist conveys understanding of client’s worldview
Person-Centered Therapy:
View of Transference
Not a necessary component of therapy
Acknowledge transference, no need to foster or interpret it
