Rogers Flashcards
Valuing Process in infants and adults
Infants engage in an organismic valuing proces
Fully Functioning Persons
Are self-actualizing people behaviors include: Openness to experience Existential living Trust of their organisms Creativity Leading an enriched life
Rogers’ view on Education
the educational establishment is authoritarian and bases its program on a number of faulty assumptions
meaning:
Students should be able to choose their own goals and to pursue them with the help and encouragement of faculty
Roger’s view on Marriage
He opposed traditional marriage
He believed that a healthy marriage must entail:
Difficulties are discussed openly
Communication is honest and authentic, with mutual listening
Partners appreciate the value of separateness
Women’s growing independence is valued
Roles and role expectations fade away,
Either partner may form satellite relationships (may or may not involve sexual intimacy )
Unconditional Positive Regard
deep and genuine caring by others, uncontaminated by judgments or evaluations of our thoughts, feelings, or behaviors
The development of the self
begins in childhood becomes more complex as we age. social encounters begin to differ from the rest- I, me and myself is formation of self concept
Congruence
state of harmony that exists when there is no discrepancy between the person’s experiencing and his or her self-concept
incongruence
a discrepancy between a person’s self-concept and aspects of his or her experience
Actualization tendency
active, controlling drive toward fulfillment of our potentials that enables us to maintain and enhance ourselves
Therapeutic conditions to facilitate growth
Client and therapist are in psychological contact
Client is in a state of incongruence and feels anxious about it
Therapist is congruent in the relationship
Therapist experiences unconditional positive regard for the client
Therapist experiences an empathic understanding of the client’s internal frame of reference
Client perceives the therapist’s unconditional positive regard and empathic understanding
Life of rogers/influences
Strict, religious parents forced their view
Rural life and fascination with science
Studied ministry, then child study-underprivileged children
Distinguished career
Assessments used Q sort
self-report procedure
designed to measure discrepancy between a persons actual and ideal self
Research on his theory
filming of client-therapist sessions. Q-sort to analyze change of self image. studies have supported rogers theory incongruence between perceived self and ideal self= poor emotional adjustment
True Self
self-concept based on our actual feelings about our experiences
Social Self
self-concept based largely on the expectations of others
