Chapter 5 Carl Rogers Person-Centered Therapy Flashcards
Conditions of worth
Standards of evaluation that are not based on ones own true feelings, prefences and inclinations but instead on others judgments about what consistutes desirable forms of action
Congruence
Rogers concept expressing an absence of conflict between the percieved self and experience. Also one of three conditions suggested as essential for growth and therapeutic progress
Denial
A defense mechanism, emphasised by boths Freud and Rogers, in which threatening feelings are not allowed into awareness
Distortion
According to Rogers, a defensive process in which experience is changed so as to be brought into awareness in a form that is consistent with the self
Ideal self
The self-concept the individual would most like to possess. A key concept in Rogers theory
Incongruence
Rogers concept of the existence of a discrepancy or conflict between the percieved self and experience
Need for positive regard
In Rogerian theory, the fundamental human need to be accepted and respected by other persons
Phenomenal fieldq
The individuals way of perceiving and experiencing his or her world
Phenomenology
The stufy of human experience; in personality psychology, an approach to personality theory that focuses on how the person percieves and experiences the self and the world
Q-sort technqiue
An assessment device in which the subject sort statements into categories following a normal distribution. Used by Rogers as a measure of statements regarding the self and the ideal self
Self-actualisation
The fundamental tendency of the organism to actualize, maintain, enhance itself, and fulfill its potentiial. A concept emphasized by Rogers and other members of the human potential movement
Self-concept (the Self)
The perceptions and meaning associated with the self, me or I
Self-consistency
Rogers concept expressing an absence of conflict among perceptions of the self
Self-esteem
The persons overall evaluative regard for the self or personal judgment of worthiness
Subception
A process emphasized by Rogers in which a stimulus is experienced without being brought into awareness
