Carl Rogers Flashcards
Non-directive or client centered therapy
Person-centered therapy
The ability to change and improve personality is centered within the person.
Person-centered therapy
The current feelings and emotions have a greater impact on personality
Person-centered therapy
The inborn tendency to actualize, to develop our abilities and potentials, form the strictly biological to the most sophisticated psychological aspects of our being
Fully functioning person
The individual’s ultimate goal is to
Actualize the self
An acceptance of self and reality, and a sense of responsibility for the self.
Self-understanding or Self-insight
To actualize, maintain, and enhance the self
Actualization tendency
The process by which we judge experiences in terms of their value for fostering or hindering our actualization and growth.
Organismic valuing process
A frame of reference or context that influences our growth.
The experiential world
The only reality of which we can be sure of is our own subjective world of experience.
Phenomenology
As the actualization tendency in infancy leads us to grow and develop, our experiential world broadens.
Phenomenology
____ is the highest authority. (Phenomenology)
Experience
Image of what we are, what we should be and what we would like to be
Self concept
Positive regard:
Unconditional positive regard
Positive self-regard
Approval is granted regardless of a person’s behavior may it be desirable or undesirable.
Unconditional positive regard
The condition under which we grant ourselves acceptance and approval.
Positive self-regard
A belief that we are worthy of approval only when we express desirable behaviors and attitudes and refrain from expressing those that bring disapproval from others.
Conditions of worth
The self image is different to the ideal self.
There is only a little overlap.
Self-actualization will be difficult
Incongruent
The self-image is similar to the ideal self.
There is a more overlap.
This person can self-actualise.
Congruent
The therapist explores the client’s feelings and attitudes toward the self and toward other people.
Person-centered therapy
A group therapy technique in which people learn about their feelings and about how they relate to one another.
Encounter groups
View on human nature
Free will
Social
Present
Optimism
Progressive
