Person-Centered Counselling Approach Flashcards
Who is the founder of the Person-Centred Counselling Approach?
Carl Rogers (1902-1987)
Rogers contributed significantly to the humanistic movement in counselling and psychotherapy.
What is the view of human nature according to Rogers?
People are essentially trustworthy, resourceful, capable of self-understanding and self-direction
This perspective emphasizes clients’ ability to make constructive changes.
What are the three therapist attributes that enhance growth conditions?
- Unconditional positive regard
- Accurate empathic understanding
- Congruence
These attributes facilitate clients becoming more open to themselves and their world.
Define congruence in the context of the Person-Centred Counselling Approach.
Therapists being real and genuine towards clients, matching their inner experience with outer expression
Congruence fosters trust and openness in the therapeutic relationship.
Why is unconditional positive regard important in counselling?
It helps clients interrupt negative self-defeating behaviors and facilitates deeper self-exploration
This type of caring allows clients to feel safe and valued.
What does accurate empathic understanding entail?
Therapists’ attempts to understand clients’ experiences and feelings sensitively and accurately
It involves both subjective and objective empathy while maintaining the therapist’s separateness.
What are the therapeutic goals of the Person-Centred Counselling Approach?
- Facilitate clients to become genuine with themselves
- Achieve greater independence and integration
- Allow clients to set their own therapy goals
These goals encourage client autonomy and self-discovery.
What is the role of Person-Centred therapists?
Rooted in their attitudes and ways of being rather than techniques
Therapists focus on being present, genuine, accepting, and empathic.
What features characterize the therapist-client relationship in the Person-Centred Approach?
- Equality between therapist and client
- Presence of congruence
- Unconditional positive regard
- Accurate empathic understanding
These features facilitate positive changes in the client’s personality.
How does the therapist-client relationship benefit clients?
Facilitates self-exploration, self-discovery, and higher levels of self-acceptance
A strong relationship allows clients to trust themselves and grow.
What is the significance of reflection of feelings in counselling?
It involves grasping the client’s world and reflecting this understanding
Essential in early developments of Person-Centred Therapy.
What is immediacy in the context of therapy?
Therapists addressing the current dynamics of the therapist-client relationship
This can be relationship-focused or event-focused.
What is relationship-focused immediacy?
Therapist’s ability to confer with the client on the overall development of their relationship
Focuses on evaluating whether the relationship is helping or hindering the client.
What is Relationship-Focused Immediacy?
The therapist’s ability to confer with a client on the development of the overall relationship between them.
What is Event-Focused Immediacy also known as?
Here-and-now immediacy.
What does Event-Focused Immediacy focus on?
The therapist’s ability to confer with a client on ‘what is happening between the two of you at any given moment.’
Under what circumstance can immediacy be applied according to Egan (2014)?
When there seems to be a lack of direction and progress in a session.
List other situations when immediacy can be applied.
- When there seems to be tension between the therapist and client.
- When trust seems to be an issue between the therapist and client.
- When diversity or cultural differences seem to be an issue between the therapist and client.
- When dependency seems to be an issue between the therapist and client.
What do Person-Centred therapists think about traditional assessment and diagnosis?
They generally do not find it helpful as it encourages therapists to play the role of an expert.
What is the primary role of the therapist in the assessment process according to Person-Centred therapy?
To involve clients as fully as possible in their assessment and treatment process.
According to Cain (2010), is there a single way to practice Person-Centred Therapy?
No, there is no one way of practising Person-Centred Therapy.
What do Person-Centred therapists have the freedom to do?
Utilise a wide range of techniques and methods during counselling.
What is one of the strengths of the Person-Centred Counselling Approach?
It makes it easier for therapists to understand diverse worldviews.
How have Person-Centred concepts been adapted globally?
They have been adapted by countries such as Japan, Australia, South America, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.
What is a potential shortcoming of the Person-Centred approach in some cultures?
Clients may prefer their counsellors to be more directive and structured.
What core concepts does Person-Centred therapy emphasize?
- Freedom
- Autonomy
- Self-acceptance
- Self-actualisation
What significant shift does Person-Centred Therapy provide in counselling?
It shifts from techniques-focused to an emphasis on an equal, therapeutic therapist-client relationship.
What is Person-Centred Expressive Arts Therapy?
A development by Natalie Rogers that helps clients find other channels of self-expression and healing.
What has Carl Rogers’ emphasis on research influenced?
It has influenced others to conduct research studies on counselling processes and outcomes.
List some criticisms of the Person-Centred Counselling Approach’s research studies.
- Failing to use an untreated control group
- Reliance on self-reports to measure therapy outcomes
- Inappropriate use of statistical procedures
What is a noted shortcoming regarding the techniques in the Person-Centred Counselling Approach?
The lack of emphasis on techniques is seen as a shortcoming.
What issue might arise with trainees and practitioners of the Person-Centred approach?
They may overemphasise the role of reflections and empathic listening.
What challenge might Person-Centred therapists face concerning clients’ goals?
Supporting clients’ choice of goals when they differ from the therapist’s views.
What might happen if therapists submerge their unique identity in a passive manner?
The counselling sessions may become safe and non-productive.
