CHAPTER 10 (Rogers) Flashcards
Theory that focus was on facilitating personal growth and development rather than exploring the roots of behavior.
Client Centered Theory
Rogers believed in a universal tendency for all matter to evolve from simpler to more complex forms, termed the _______ ________.
Formative Tendency
Is the innate drive within all humans, animals, and plants to move toward fulfillment of potentials.
Actualizing Tendency
Involves basic needs like food, air, safety, and resisting change to protect the current self-concept.
Maintenance
Involves a willingness to learn and change, even in the face of threat and pain, to fulfill one’s basic nature and achieve growth.
Enhancement
Infants begin to develop a sense of self when certain experiences become personalized and differentiated as “___” or “____” experiences.
I; Me
Is a subset of the broader actualization tendency and refers specifically to the tendency to actualize the self as perceived in awareness.
Self-actualization
Includes all aspects of one’s being and experiences that are perceived in awareness, though not always accurately.
Self-concept
Is one’s view of oneself as one wishes to be, containing positive attributes that individuals aspire to possess.
Ideal self
The first step in becoming a person is making _____, whether positive or negative, with another person.
Contact
Refers to the need to be loved, liked, or accepted by others, especially significant individuals.
Positive regard
______ ______ from others is a prerequisite for positive self-regard, which is the experience of prizing or valuing oneself.
Positive regard
______ ____ _____ arises after satisfying love and belongingness needs, but once achieved, it no longer requires external validation.
Positive Self-Regard
Its is a perceived expectations and approval from significant others
Conditions of Worth
Arises when there is a mismatch between one’s perceived self-concept and their actual organismic experiences.
Incongruence
Occurs when individuals are unaware of this incongruence
Vulnerability
Arise as they become more aware of incongruence.
Anxiety and Threat
Refers to protecting the self-concept against anxiety and threat by denying or distorting experiences inconsistent with it.
Defensiveness
Involves misinterpreting experiences to fit the self-concept
Distortion
Involves refusing to perceive certain experiences
Denial
Occurs when defensive mechanisms fail, leading to inconsistent or psychotic behavior.
Disorganization
refers to a therapist’s ability to openly express genuine feelings and experiences without denial or distortion.
Congruence
Means therapists accept and prize their clients without conditions or reservations.
Unconditional Positive Regard
Involves accurately sensing and communicating clients’ feelings without judgment or evaluation.
Empathic Listening
