Person Centered

Question 1

Carl Rogers Developed

Question 2

Person-Centered therapy suggests that the core conditions (empathy, unconditional positive regard, genuineness) are essential to the therapeutic alliance

Question 3

Stages

Answer 3

1) Nondirective counseling suggests that the main role of therapists is to help people express and gain insight into their emotions and experiences
2) Client centered therapy suggests that counseling should not be completely nondirective
3) Rogers reaching educational settings and developing encounter groups
4) Person centered counseling suggests that there is concern for all of humanity, not just the counseling relationship

Question 4

• Based on assumption that all people are basically good (humanistic per.)
• Human potential and self-actualization

Question 5

Conditions of worth

Answer 5

Judgmental and critical messages; expectation that people must act a certain way to be loved

Question 6

Organismic valuing process

Answer 6

peoples intuitive ability to know what they need to feel fulfilled and self-actualized

Question 7

Incongruence

Answer 7

When people don’t listen to this internal sense (OVP)

Question 8

Fully functioning person

Answer 8

awareness and acceptance of innermost feelings and desires

Question 9

6 conditions that facilitate personality change

Answer 9

• a relationship exists
• clients are in a state of incongruence
• therapist is congruent in relationship
• therapist experiences unconditional positive regard for client
• therapist expresses empathy to client
• therapist expresses core conditions which create a safe and accepting space for clients to truly work

Question 10

Goals

Answer 10

• facilitate clients trust and ability to be in the present moment
• clients have honesty with themselves and therapists by fully expressing emotions and thoughts
• development of congruence (authenticity/genuineness)
• promote self-awareness, empowerment, optimism, responsibility, and autonomy
• manage life and concerns
• self-actualization
• ability to create a meaningful life

Question 11

Therapists use themselves to promote change through personable, genuine, supportive, and empathic measures

Answer 11

These attitudes encourage clients to open up about their experiences

Question 12

Clients are believed to be able to help heal themselves with the help of a therapeutic relationship

Answer 12

Therapists DO NOT provide solutions; clients provide their own solutions

Question 13

Nondirectiveness

Answer 13

The clients take the lead and are the focus of the counseling process