Chapter 7 Flashcards
Person centered emphasizes (3)
Personal characteristics of the counselor
Quality of the therapeutic relationship
Person’s capacity for self-directed growth if involved in a therapeutic relationship
Person centered challenges (3)
- Assumption that “the counselor knows best”
- Validity of advice, suggestion, persuasion, teaching, diagnosis, and interpretation
- Belief that clients cannot resolve their own problems without help
Evidence-based approach developed by Leslie Greenberg
Emotion-Focused Therapy
Emotional change can be a primary pathway to cognitive and behavioral change. Rooted in a person-centered philosophy but synthesizes aspects of Gestalt and Existential therapies
Emotion-Focused Therapy
Core characteristics of self-actualizing people are:
Self-awareness; freedom; basic honesty and caring; and trust and autonomy
Pioneer in humanistic psychology, contributed Positive Psychology and Hierarchy of needs
Abraham Maslow
3 therapist attributes that create a growth-promoting climate
Congruence (genuineness or realness); unconditional positive regard (acceptance and caring); accurate empathic understanding
The following six conditions are necessary and sufficient for personality changes to occur:
- Two persons are in psychological contact.
- The first, the client, is experiencing incongruence.
- The second person, the counselor, is congruent or integrated in the relationship.
- The counselor experiences unconditional positive regard or real caring for the client.
- The counselor experiences empathy for the client’s internal frame of reference and endeavors to communicate this to the client.
- The communication to the client is, to a minimal degree, achieved.
Key figure of Expressive Arts Therapy
Natalie Rogers
This person opened the field to research
Carl Rogers
Hierarchy of Needs
- Physiological
- Safety
- Belonging and love
- Need for esteem (self and others)
- Self actualization
Captured by the acorn metaphor, will automatically grow in positive ways, pushed toward its actualization
Humanistic Philosophy