Chapter 6 Applications of Rogers Phenomenological Theory

Question 1

Authenticity

Answer 1

The extent to which the person behaves in accord with his or her self as opposed to behaving in terms of roles that foster false self-presentations

Question 2

Client-centered therapy

Answer 2

Rogers term for his earlier approach to therapy in which the counselors attitude is one of interest in the ways in which the client experiences the self and the world

Question 3

Congruence

Answer 3

Rogers concept expressing an absence of conflict between the percieved self and experience. Also one of three therapist conditions suggested as essential for growth and therapeutic progress

Question 4

Contingencies of self-worth

Answer 4

The positive and negative events on which ones feelings of self-esteem depend

Question 5

Empathic understanding

Answer 5

Rogers term for the ability to perceive experiences and feelings and their meaning from the standpoint of another person. One of three therapist conditions essential for therapeutic progress

Question 6

Existentialism

Answer 6

An approach to understanding people and conducting therapy, associated with the human potential movement, that emphasizes phenomenology and concerns inherent in existing as a person. Derived from a more general movement in philosophy

Question 7

Human potential movement

Answer 7

A group of psychologists, represented by Rogers and Maslow, who emphasize the actualisation or fulfillment of individual potential, including an openness to experience

Question 8

Self-experience discrepency

Answer 8

Rogers emphasis on the potential for conflict between the concepts of self and experience - the basis for psychopathology

Question 9

Unconditional positive regard

Answer 9

Rogers term for the acceptance of a person in a total, unconditional way. One of three therapist conditions suggested as essential for growth and therapeutic progress