Lesson 10 - Carl Rogers Flashcards
Although he is best known as the founder of client-centered therapy, he developed a humanistic theory of personality that grew out of his experiences as a practicing psychotherapy.
Carl Rogers
all matter, both organic and inorganic, tends to evolve from simpler to more complex forms
Formative Tendency
all living things, including humans, tend to move toward completion, or fulfillment of potentials.
Actualizing Tendencies
Human actualizing tendencies is only recognized under a certain categories:
A person should be in a relationship with a CONGRUENT or authentic partner who displays EMPATHY and UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARDS
This includes such basic needs as food, air, and safety; but it also includes the tendency to resist change and to seek the status quo, conservative in nature.
Need for Maintenance
includes the need to become more, to develop, and
to achieve growth
Need for Enhancement
refers to organismic experiences of the individual; the whole person, conscious and unconscious, physiological and cognitive.
Actualization Tendency
the tendency to actualize the self as perceived in awareness
Self-actualization
includes all those aspects of one’s identity that are perceived in awareness, not identical with organismic self.
Self-concept
Self-concept is not identical to?
Organismic self
Our view of our self as we who would like to be or aspire to be.
Ideal Self
A wide gap between the ideal self and the self-concept indicates?
Incongruence
Three levels of awareness
Ignored and Denied or not allowed into self-concept
Disorted or reshaped to fit into an existing self-concept
Accurately mbolized and free admitted to self-structure
need to be loved, liked, or accepted by another person
Positive regards
defined as the experience of prizing or valuing one’s self positive regard from others is necessary for positive self-regard, but once positive
Positive Regards
