PPT # 6 Person-Centered Therapy Flashcards
Who is the most cited/revered American Psychologist?
Carl Rogers (1902 - 1987)
Carl Rogers was the first to use ________ ________ as a guide to model development
Process Research
What did Roger’s ideas challenge?
- The assumption that “the counselor knows best”
- The validity of advice, suggestion, persuasion, teaching, diagnosis, and interpretation
- The belief that clients cannot understand and resolve their own problems without direct help
- The focus on problems over persons
List what Roger’s approach emphasizes.
- Therapy as a journey shared by two fallible people
- The person’s innate striving for self-actualization
- The personal characteristics of the therapist and the quality of the therapeutic relationship
- The counselor’s creation of a “growth-promoting” climate
- People are capable of self-directed growth if involved in a therapeutic relationship
What is the main principle of Roger’s assumptions?
respect for clients’ autonomy and the subjective sense of a right to self-determination
What does Roger’s assumptions highlight?
- The Actualizing Tendency
- Trustworthiness
- Self-Concept and Conditional Regard
- Process of Change
T/F: Roger’s feels as though people are not born “Tabula Rosa”.
True
What’s Roger’s view on actualizing tendency?
- Basic biological principle
- Organic systems tend to move toward complex organization
Who does Roger’s feel should be trusted to steer therapy in the direction it needs to go?
Client
T/F: Roger’s believes the client’s subjective reality is the pertinent reality
True
Who said, “…unless I need to demonstrate my own cleverness and learning I would do better to rely upon the client for the direction of movement in the process.”
Carl Roger’s
How is Rogers’ self-concept different from Freuds?
Frued = “psyche”
Roger’s = “Lifestyle”
Define Self-concept
the organized, consistent set of perceptions and beliefs about oneself
List the several elements of Self-concept.
- Self worth– what we think about ourselves.
- Conditions of worth – or rules about one’s value
- Self-image – How we see ourselves at this point in time. Influenced by our conditional worth
- Ideal self– Who we want to be/become. Dynamic
What leads to positive regard?
Self-concept
Describe Unconditional positive regard.
- When other people love, accept, and value us without condition.
- Positive regard is not withdrawn if the person does something wrong or makes a mistake.
- The consequences of unconditional positive regard are that the person feels free to try things out
Describe Conditional positive regard
- When positive regard depends upon the behavior of the individual.
- The person is not loved for the person he or she is, but on condition that he or she behaves only in ways approved by other.
- At the extreme, a person who constantly seeks approval from other people is likely only to have experienced conditional positive regard as a child.
Define Congruence
A state in which our ideal-self and life experience coexist
What two things must match to result in congruence?
Ideal-self needs to mat self-image
What is incongruence?
a discrepancy between the actual experience of the organism and the self-picture of the individual insofar as it represents that experience
Roger’ (1961) described fully functioning people as having what?
- A growing openness to experience – which includes negative feelings
- An increasingly existential lifestyle - in touch with different experiences as they occur in life, avoiding prejudging and preconceptions.
- Increasing organismic trust – feelings and instincts are valued and trusted, little second guessing
- Creativity – a person can “think outside the box” and take risks, not just do things to please others.
- A rich full life – a general satisfaction that one is living mostly up to potential
What are the 6 conditions that are necessary in the process of therapy?
- Two persons are in psychological contact.
- The first, termed the client, is in a state of incongruence, being vulnerable or anxious.
- The second person, termed the therapist, is congruent or integrated in the relationship.
- The therapist experiences unconditional positive regard for the client.
- The therapist experiences an empathic understanding of the client’s internal frame of reference and endeavors to communicate this experience to the client.
- The communication to the client of the therapist’s empathic understanding and unconditional positive regard is, to a minimal degree, achieved.
What is the foundation of the therapists role?
Radical empathy!!
What is the overall goal for the person-centered therapist?
- to create a therapeutic climate in which the client can grow.
- The therapist strives to be genuine, integrated, and authentic, without a false front
