Chapter 6 Flashcards
Organismic Sensing
Built-in or innate compass for better lifestyles.
Psychological Contact
Therapist not just being in the same room with the client but also bringing forth her abilities to attend to and be engaged by the client.
Counselor Centered Approaches
Therapist administers tests, asks questions, makes a diagnosis, suggests courses of action for so-called patients to follow.
Client Centered Approaches
“Client” is used to emphasize that control rests with the person seeking assistance, not in the counselor.
Phenomenology
Focuses on the subjective world of the individual. Their experiences, their emotions, their viewpoints are what is important.
Actualizing Tendency
Inherent tendency of the organism to develop all its capacities in ways which serve to maintain or enhance the organism.
Organismic Valuing Process
Inherent capacity to choose options, make decisions in a manner that will provide inner fulfillment.
Acceptance
Appreciating clients for who they are without valuing or judging them.
Conditional Positive Regard
Receiving praise, attention, or approval from others as a result of behaving in accordance with the expectations of others.
Conditionally or Conditions of Worth
Process of evaluating one’s own experience based on values or beliefs that others hold.
Congruence
Harmony that takes place when there is no disagreement between individuals experiences and their views of themselves.
Eclecticism
Approach that combines theories or techniques from a wide variety of therapeutic approaches.
Empathy
To enter the world of another individual without being influenced by one’s own views and values is to be empathic with the individual.
Encounter Group
Group designed to promote constructive insight, sensitivity to others, and personal growth among its members.
Fully Functioning Person
Person who meets his or her own need for positive regard rather than relying on the expectations of others.
