Chapter 10 - Rogers Flashcards
Actualization tendency
The basic human motivation to actualize, maintain, and enhance the self
Organismic valuing process
The process by which we judge experiences in terms of their value for fostering or hindering our actualization and growth
Positive regard
Acceptance, love, and approval from others
Unconditional positive regard
Approval granted regardless of a person’s behaviour. In Roger’s person-centred therapy, the therapist offers the client unconditional positive regard.
Positive self-regard
The condition under which we grant ourselves acceptance and approval
Conditions of worth
To Rogers, a belief that we are worthy of approval only when we express desirable behaviours and attitudes and refrain from expressing those that bring disapproval from others; similar to the Freudian superego
Conditional positive regard
Approval, love, or acceptance granted only when a person expresses desirable behaviours and attitudes.
Incongruence
A discrepancy between a person’s self-concept and aspects of his or her experience
Fully functioning person
Rogers’s term for self-actualization, for developing all facets of the self
Person-centred therapy
Rogers’s approach to therapy in which the client is assumed to be responsible for changing his or her personality
Encounter groups
A group therapy technique in which people learn about their feelings and about how they relate to (or encounter) one anther.
Q-sort technique
A self-report technique for assessing aspects of the self-concept
