Carl Rogers "Person-centered Theory" Flashcards
Carl Roger’s therapy
Client-centered therapy
Rogerian personality theory
Person-centered theory
Basic Assumptions of person-centered theory?
Formative tendency
Actualizing tendency
a tendency for all matter, both organic and inorganic, to evolve from simpler to more complex forms. For the entire universe, a creative process, rather than a disintegrative one, is in operation.
Formative tendency
tendency within all humans to move toward completion or fulfillment of potentials
Actualizing tendency
is similar to the lower steps on
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. It includes such basic needs as food,
air, and safety; but it also includes the tendency to resist change and to seek the status quo.
maintenance
This need to become more, to develop, and to achieve growth is called
enhancement
provided certain conditions are present
Actualization tendency
necessary and sufficient conditions for becoming a fully functioning or self-actualizing person
Congruence or genuineness
Unconditional positive regard
Empathy
CUE
develop a vague concept of this when
a portion of their experience becomes personalized and differentiated in awareness as “I” or “me” experiences
self
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Self-concept
Our real self, not influence by the society
Organismic self
Can be considered as false self
Self-concept
is a subset of the actualization tendency and is therefore not synonymous with it
Self-actualization
refers to organismic experiences of the individual; that is, it refers to the whole person—conscious and unconscious, physiological and cognitive
actualization tendency
is the tendency to actualize the self as perceived in awareness
self-actualization
includes all those aspects of one’s being and one’s experiences that
are perceived in awareness
self-concept
defined as one’s view of self as one wishes to be.
ideal self