Rogers

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Built his theory on his experiences as a therapist

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Carl rogers

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This approach was formerly known as “nondirective”

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Person-centered theory

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Tendency for all matter, both organic and inorganic, to evolve from simpler to more complex forms

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Formative tendency

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Tendency within all humans to move toward completion or fulfillment of potentials

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Actualizing tendency

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Tendency to resist change and to seek status quo; basic needs

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maintenance

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2 basic human needs

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maintenance an enhancement

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Needs to grow and to realize one’s full human potential

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Enhancement

Question 8

___ arises when there is a discrepancy between people’s organismic experiences and their view of self.

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conflict

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All aspects of one’s being and one’s experiences that are perceived in awareness by the individual

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self-concept

Question 10

Experienced when basic organismic needs are denied or distorted in favor of needs to be loved or accepted.

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incongruence

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3 levels of awareness

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• ignored or denied
• accurately symbolized
• distorted form

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wide gap between self-concept and ideal self

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incongruence

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Symbolic representation of some portion of our experience

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awareness

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Awareness: many stimuli but cannot attend all of them

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ignored

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awareness: true feelings are hidden

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denied

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awareness: consistent with existing self-concept

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accurately symbolized

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awareness: experience not consistent with self-concept, thus reshape the experience to assimilate wtih existing view of self

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distorted form

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Becoming a person characteristics

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1. individual must make contact, 2. have positive regard, 3. have positive self-regard

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Feel that they are loved and accepted only when and if they meet the conditions set by others

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conditions of worth

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Source of psychological disorders

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incongruence between self-concept and organismic experience

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the greater the incongruence, the more vulnerable

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vulnerabilty

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State of uneasiness or tension whose cause is unknown

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anxiety

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Awareness that our self is no longer whole or congruent

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threat

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protection of the self-concept against anxiety and threat by denial or distortion of experiences inconsistent with it

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defensiveness

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defensiveness: misinterpret an experience in order to fit into some aspect of self-concept

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distortion

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defensiveness: refuse to perceive an experience in awareness

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denial

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When incongruence between perceived self and organismic experience is either too obvious or occurs too suddenly to be denied or distorted

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disorganization

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Happens when defenses fail and behavior becomes psychotic

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disorganization

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Therapist accept and prize their clients w/o any restrictions or reservation

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unconditional positive regard

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therapist accurately sense the feelings of their clients and able to communicate perceptions without judgment

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empathic listening

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Conditions crucial to client-centered therapy

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counselor congruence, unconditional positive regard and empathic listening

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goal of client-centered therapy

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clients become more congruent, more open to experience and more realistic

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Psychologically healthy person or fully functioning person

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person of tomorrow

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A study conducted by Rogers and his colleagues to investigate both the process and outcomes of his therapy

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Chicago studies

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Natural instinct directing us toward the most fulfilling pursuits

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organismic valuing process

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Experience of being fully immersed and engaged in an experience to the point of losing track of time and one’s sense of self

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Flow