Chapter 10: Carl Rogers Flashcards
What is the theory made by Carl rogers?Approach was also known as “nondirective”
Person-Centered Theory
there is a tendency for all matter, both organic and inorganic, to evolve from simpler to more complex forms.
Formative Tendency
The tendency within all humans to move forward toward completion or fulfillment of
potentials
Actualizing Tendency
What are the two views of Actualizing Tendency?
-Need for Maintenance
-Need for Enhancement
Includes such basic needs; but is also includes the tendency to resist change and to seek the status quo.
Willingness to face threat and pain because of a biologically based tendency for the organism to fulfill its basic nature
Need for Maintenance
seen in people’s willingness to learn things that are not immediately rewarding.
Willingness to face threat and pain because of a biologically based tendency for the organism to fulfill its basic nature
Need for Enhancement
subset of the actualization tendency to actualize the self as perceived in awareness 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
develop in childhood and includes all those aspects of one’s being and one’s experiences that are perceived in awareness by the individual.
Self-Concept
Portion of the _____ may be beyond awareness or simply not owned by that person
Organismic Self
is defined as one’s view of self as one wishes to be. The ideal self contains all those attributes, usually positive, that people aspire to posses
Ideal self
True or false
Any experience not consistent with the self-concept even positive experiences will be distorted or denied.
True
constant lifelong process of understanding how past experience has shaped you and of keeping up with the person you are now becoming through your present action
Becoming a Person
conditions of worth, incongruence, defensiveness, and disorganization.
Barriers to Psychological Health
arises when the positive regard of a significant other is conditional, when the individual feels
that in some aspects, he or she is prized and in others not.
Conditions of Worth
Psychological disequilibrium begins when we fail to recognize our orgasmic experiences as self-experiences because they appear to be inconsistent with our emerging self-concept.
Incongruence
The protection of the self-concept against anxiety and threat by the denial or distortion of experiences inconsistent with
Defensiveness
Behaviors can become _____ or even psychotic when one’s defenses fail to operate properly.
Disorganized
type of treatment that can help individuals experiencing a wide array of mental health conditions and emotional challenges.
Psychotherapy
exists when a person’s organismic experiences are matched by an awareness of them and by an ability and willingness to openly express these feeling
Counselor Congruence
Sources of incongruences
First, there can be a breakdown
between feelings and awareness.
Second, a discrepancy between
awareness of an experience and the
ability or willingness to express it to
another
Positive regard is the need to be liked, prized, or accepted by another person. When this need exists without any conditions or qualifications, _____ occuurs
Unconditional positive regard
means “temporarily living in the other’s life, moving about in it delicately without
making judgments”.
Empathy
_____ Is a powerful tool, which along with genuineness and caring facilitates personal growth within the client.
Empathic listening
If the conditions of therapist congruence, unconditional positive regard, and empathy are present, the process of therapeutic change will be set in motion.
Process
If a therapeutic change process is initiated, certain observable results can be expected. The most basic _____ of successful client-centered therapy is a client who is sympathetic, less defensive, and more open to the experienc
Outcomes
