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Rogers Flashcards

Humanistic Theory

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What was the name of Rogers general theory?

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Humanistic psychology

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What is humanistic psycholoy?

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  1. Emphasis on present experience and worth of whole person
  2. Promote creativity and freedom of choice
  3. Fosters belief that people can solve their own problem
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What is the actualizing tendency?

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The inherent need to survive, grow, and enhance the self

phenomenological perspective: having a unique viewpoint of the world which influences how you’ll grow

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What is organismic valuing process (OVP)?

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The inherent subconscious guide that evaluates experience for its growth potential (sense of whats good/bad for us)

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A person who pays attention to the organismic valuing process is _____ and strives to become a _______.

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self-actualizing; fully functioning person

fully functional = mentally healthy person

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Characteristics of a a fully functioning person

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  1. Openness to experience
  2. Existential living
  3. Orgasnismic Trusting
  4. Experiential freedom
  5. Creativity
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What is openness to experience?

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Being open to all experiences and accurately perceive them (having an “expanded consciousness”)

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What is existential living?

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  1. Be flexible
  2. Living each moment fully
  3. Be maximally adaptive
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What is organismic trusting?

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Trusting your inner experiences at all times (follow intuition without outside influence)

Dysfunction = losing touch with inner feelings

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What is experiential freedom?

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  1. You are always free to choose how to act/think
  2. One should focus on what they CAN do in any particular situation
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What is creativity?

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  1. Finding new ways of living each moment
  2. Don’t get locked into “patterns” which are often maladaptive
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What is the difference between experience and awareness?

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Experience: Everything that is happening at a given time

Awareness: The part of experience that we symbolize, usually in words

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The ideal and real self may be in ______.

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Conflict

  • ideal self may be based on OVP and/or society
  • real self is who you are currently
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Listening to OVP should lead to ______.

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Congruence (thoughts, feelings, behaviors are in agreement)

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What did Rogers find about children that received conditional love?

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  1. Increased anxiety
  2. Increased hostility towards others
  3. Increased somatic complaints
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What can we do if conditional love has thwarted our
self-actualizing process? Or if our real and ideal selves
are not close to being uniform?what can we do if conditional love has thwarted our
self-actualizing process? Or if our real and ideal selves
are not close to being uniform?

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Client centered therapy

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What is client centered therapy?

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Client knows what is best and how to get it

  • Want to bring experience and awareness into congruence
  • make self-actualization a life goal
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What are the 3 techniques of client centered therapy

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  1. Unconditional positive regard: accept clients statements and ensure they feel worthy/valued
  2. Congruence: therapists behaviors must match inner experiences
  3. Empathetic Understanding: repeat statements, give words and symbols to feelings that are hard to express
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What stages of change are a person not ready for therapy?

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Stage 1 and 2

  • focus on others
  • no responsibility for problems
  • feelings are describes in past tense
  • no desire for change (stuck)
  • no OVP
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What stages of change are a person in therapy?

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Stage 3-6

  • admits responsibility
  • feelings expressed in present tense
  • living “in the moment”
  • recognize difference between behavior and OVP (value OVP)
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What stages of change are a person continuing growth in therapy

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Stage 7

  • OVP
  • Experience in new and present
  • Rich experience of choice
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What is a Q-sort

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Given a pile of cards with personality descriptors and asks to describe self and ideal self

  • high positive correlation when mentally healthy
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What are criticisms of Q-sort technique?

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  • Overly simplistic and overlooks basic physiological drives (ie sex/aggression, self-actualization may not be all good)
  • Unconditional positive regard could lead to confusing world
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What are 2 applications of Rogers humanistic approach?

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  1. Politics - working together may increase our own self-worth and decrease hatred
  2. Education - students should decide what and how to learn, no syllabus, no grades

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