CH4 Flashcards
The Person (Rogers)
- Clients are persons; however, institutional structures and oppressive cultural and social practices may limit and deny personhood
- Client co-constructs the therapy.
- Nondirective attitude
Core Conditions for Therapy (Therapist) (Rogers)
- Genuineness/Congruence: correspondence between the therapist’s thoughts and behavior
- Unconditional Positive Regard: Therapist’s regard/attitude toward the patient remains unaltered regardless of the patient’s choices
- Empathy: Profound interest and care for the patient’s perceptions and feelings
Roger’s Basic Assumptions (Client)
- Self Concept: at therapy onset, self-esteem often low, improvements correlated with therapy
- Locus-of-Evaluation: Pre-therapy focus on other’s opinions, progress associated with internal locus-of-evaluation
- Experiencing: at therapy onset, rigid; success related to flexibility
Experience
The private world of the individual (the way you see things)
Reality
Private perceptions of the individual; social reality consists of perceptions that have a high degree of commonality among individuals
Organism’s Actualizing Tendency (Rogers)
All living organisms are dynamic processes motivated by an inherent tendency to maintain and enhance themselves
Psychological Adjustment or Maladjustment
felt DSM was a colossal waste of time! Refused to diagnose in his personal practice
Organismic Valuing Process
What we feel is important to us
***The Fully Functioning Person
***Know examples for test
young kid / mom says needs nap / kid is invalidated that they’re not tired
parents make kids eat all their food / kid is invalidated that they’re full
saying sorry when you’re not
***Narrative Therapy (video)
Restructuring House / Rewrite Story
Jerry Correy / Carl Rogers
getting someone to reconstruct the meaning in their lives
There are always dominant narratives…what needs work
1. Personal Stories (how they see themselves within the context of their life/relationships)
2. Change is Facilitated by the Therapist: therapist sets up model but does NOT direct it.
3. Therapist sees client in a problem-saturated story
4. Re-Authoring: coming up with a better story (client’s truth changes, a preferred story line)
5. Unique Outcomes: times when problem is no longer there or it’s been re-shaped
6. Help patient find an audience when patient reconstructs story, new positive connections
Feminist Theory
Diagnosis is not helpful because diagnosis were created by males. Does not apply evenly to women.
Believe women get diagnosed too often with depression, anxiety disorders and personality disorders.
Look at problems not as pathology but as contact with living and coping
Believe in social interest so they can affect change where they benefit so environment will change
Existentialists
People are meaning-making beings who are both subjects of experience and objects of self-reflection.
Focus on questions: who am i? is life worth living? does it have a meaning? how can i realize my humanity?
Asserts that only in reflecting on our mortality can we learn how to live.
Believes in no afterlife
Existential Authenticity and Subjectivity
- Theories may dehumanize and objectify people, authentic experience takes precedence over artificial explanations.
- When experiences are molded into some preexisting theoretical model, they lose their authenticity and become disconnected from the individuals who experience them.
- Existential psychotherapists focus on the subjectivity of experience rather than “objective” diagnostic categories.
Don’t like to diagnose.
Existential Crises
- Diagnosable presenting “symptoms” may mask existential crises.
- Existential dilemma ensues from the existential reality that although we crave to persist in our being, we are finite creatures.
Existential Concerns
- Freedom: authors of our own lives, we face responsibilities we dread and try to escape
- Isolation: Interpersonal, interpersonal, or existential solution
- Meaning: search for purpose can throw us into crisis.
- Death: awareness is painful, but enriches life.
