748 person centered Flashcards
View of Human Nature: At their core, humans are t_ and p_
trustworthy and positive
View of Human Nature: Humans are capable of
making changes and living productive, effective lives
View of Human Nature: self-actualization
Humans innately gravitate toward self-actualization
View of Human Nature: individuals strive to move forward and fulfill their creative nature given
the right growth-fostering conditions
Person-Centered Therapy: This approach challenges: assumption about the counselor
Assumption that “the counselor knows best”
Person-Centered Therapy: This approach challenges: the validity of
Validity of advice, suggestion, persuasion, teaching, diagnosis, and interpretation
Person-Centered Therapy: This approach challenges: Belief that clients cannot resolve their own
problems without help
Person-Centered Therapy: This approach challenges: Focus on p__ over p_
Focus on problems over persons
Person-Centered Therapy: This approach emphasizes: p_ characteristics of the therapist
Personal characteristics of the therapist
Person-Centered Therapy: This approach emphasizes:
Q_ of the therapeutic relationship
Quality of the therapeutic relationship
Person-Centered Therapy: This approach emphasizes: “growth-promoting
Counselor’s creation of a “growth-promoting” climate
Person-Centered Therapy: This approach emphasizes: Person’s capacity for
self-directed growth if involved in a therapeutic relationship
Three therapist attributes create a growth-promoting climate: C
Congruence: Genuineness or realness
Three therapist attributes create a growth-promoting climate: U
Unconditional positive regard: Acceptance and caring
Three therapist attributes create a growth-promoting climate: A
Accurate empathic understanding: The ability to deeply grasp the subjective world of another person
Six core conditions that are necessary and sufficient for personality changes to occur: Two
Two persons are in psychological contact
Six core conditions that are necessary and sufficient for personality changes to occur: first person
The first, the client, is experiencing incongruence
Six core conditions that are necessary and sufficient for personality changes to occur: second person
The second person, the therapist, is congruent or integrated in the relationship
Six core conditions that are necessary and sufficient for personality changes to occur: therapist experiences u_
The therapist experiences unconditional positive regard or real caring for the client
Six core conditions that are necessary and sufficient for personality changes to occur: therapist experiences e_
The therapist experiences empathy for the client’s internal frame of reference and endeavors to communicate this to the client
Six core conditions that are necessary and sufficient for personality changes to occur: communication
The communication to the client is, to a minimal degree, achieved
The Person-Centered Therapist: Engages in _-assessment
Engages in co-assessment with the client and does not value traditional assessment and diagnosis
The Person-Centered Therapist: change agent
Provides a supportive therapeutic environment in which the client is the agent of change and healing
The Person-Centered Therapist: modeling
Serves as a model of a human being struggling toward greater realness
The Person-Centered Therapist: personal qualities are g_, i_, a_
genuine, integrated, and authentic
The Person-Centered Therapist: Can openly express
feelings and attitudes that are present in the relationship with the client
The Person-Centered Therapist: Is invested in developing his or her own
life experiences to deepen self-knowledge and move toward self-actualization
Application to Crisis Intervention: When people are in crisis, one of the first steps is to
give them an opportunity to fully express themselves
Application to Crisis Intervention: Genuine support, caring, and nonpossessive warmth can motivate people to
do something to work through a crisis
Application to Crisis Intervention: should always precede other problem-solving interventions
Communicating a deep sense of understanding should always precede other problem-solving interventions