Person Centered Therapy Flashcards
- Most experiences in our awareness
- Some are ignored
- Some are blocked (subceived)
Structure/Experiences
- Experience reality in terms of internal and external experiences.
- Experience is our reality
- Born with ability to symbolize experiences in our awareness.
Structure of Personality
- Experience thats been denied conscious representation.
* When you experience something, yet feel uneasy, and dont know why.
Subception
- Born Unique
- At our core we are trustworthy and good people
- Born with a self-actualizing tendency
Structure of Personality
- Drive to become a fully functioning person
* Essentially positive
Function of Personality
- Our drive
* Do what we were born with
Self-Actualized
- Engaging in an organismic valuing process
* Hold on to the positive ones, avoid the negative ones
Achieve Self-Actualization
- Grow
- Heal when injured
- Develop our full potential
- Forward moving
- Constructive
- Realistic
- Trustworthy
Function of Personality
- interacts with perception to gain the OVP
- perceives something, then organizes it, in terms of how well it actualizes the organism.
- Need is fulfilled, unrelated to a need, or thwarts the fulfillment of a need.
Actualizing Tendency
characterized by-
- Internalized Locus of Evaluation
- Based on own expereinces
Organismic Valuing Process
*The drive, the reaching, stretching, to be a fully functioning person.
Actualizing Tendency
- Children look for pleasantness & unpleasantness as they grow
- Differentiation is made (parents should not interfere)
Role of the Environment
- Feeling valued by important people
- helping others
- Love
- Respect
- Warmth
Self Regard
- Evaluate own experiences based on values of others
- Deny satisfying experiences, agree to dissatisfying ones
- To gain positive regard, discount’s own beliefs (do not listen to own values, beliefs)
- Leads to anxiety
Conditions of Worth
- Arises out of an incongruity between the self and the organism’s experiences
- Result of OVP=Good
- Result of Conditions of Worth=Bad
Development of Maladaptive Behavior
*Organismic Valuing Process (helping us be all we can be)
Development of Adaptive Behavior
*Closer the ideal, real and perceived selves are overlapping
Congruent Adaptive
*When a person alters the self-concept to bring it in close alignment with the real self
State of Incongruence
*Rogers believed there must be unconditional positive regard from others, so own self regard can be increased
How Change Occurs
*Process of the therapist listening to and accurately experiencing and being aware of the communication of another person.
Congruence
- Client becomes full functioning
- Allowing themselves to feel and be aware and accept all of their experiences
- Inner Freedom to make decisions
- Responsibilities, Social
- Communicate empathically, understanding others needs
Client is Changed When..
- Psychological contact
- Incongruence
- Congruence and genuineness
- Unconditional positive regard
- Empathy
- Perception of empathy and acceptance
Conditions Necessary for Change
Experience
- therapist
- exploration
- self
- change
- responsibility
Role of the Client
- Six necessary and sufficient conditions are met.
- More they share their fears, anxiety and shame in the presence of another who is caring of them, the more fully will they experience life
Capacity for Change
- Therapist does not meet core conditions
- is not accurate in reflections
- Client is unable to handle overwhelming feelings
Resistance
- Meet unconditional positive regard
- Congruent/Genuine
- Empathy
- Listen
Role of the Counselor
- Come from the client
- Understanding the self
- To be the self that one truly is
- Counselor develops a therapeutic atmosphere that promotes the goals
Goals of Counseling
- Positive
- Respectful
- Caring
- Kind
- Gentle
- Listener
Relationship with the Client
Reflection of-
- Content
- Feelings
- Meaning
- Discrepancy
Specific Techniques
