Ch.6 Roger's Phenomenological Theory

Question 1

define authenticity

Answer 1

extent to which people behave in accord with their self as opposed to behaving in terms of roles that foster false self-presentations

Question 2

define client-centered therapy

Answer 2

Rogers’s term for his earlier approach to therapy where counselor’s attitude is one of interest towards client’s experiences the self and the world.

Question 3

define congruence

Answer 3

Rogers’s concept expressing an absence of conflict between the perceived self and experience. Also one of three conditions suggested as essential for growth and therapeutic progress.

Question 4

define contingencies of self worth

Answer 4

The positive and negative events on which one’s feelings of self-esteem depend.

Question 5

define empathic understanding

Answer 5

Rogers’s term for the ability to perceive experiences, feelings, and their meanings from standpoint of another person. One of three therapist conditions essential for therapeutic progress.

Question 6

define existentialism

Answer 6

approach to understanding people and conducting therapy, associated with human potential movement; emphasizes phenomenology and concerns inherent in existing as a person

Question 7

define human potential movement

Answer 7

group of psychologists, represented by Rogers and Maslow, who emphasize the actualization or fulfillment of individual potential, including an openness to experience

Question 8

define self-determination theory

Answer 8

Deci and Ryan’s theory that the basic human psychological needs are for competence, autonomy, and relatedness (CAR)

Question 9

define self-experience discrepancy

Answer 9

Rogers’s emphasis on the potential for conflict between the concept of self and experience—the basis for psychopathology

Question 10

define unconditional positive regard

Answer 10

Rogers’s term for the acceptance of a person in a total, unconditional way. One of three therapist conditions suggested as essential for growth and therapeutic progress