Rogers Flashcards
In Carl Rogers person-centered theory. Human being has an innate striving for what?
- Self-actualization
- Self-empowerment
- Freedom
- Purpose
- Meaning
Human beings are essentially: FFAT PRRIC
- Rational
- Constructive (destructive)
- Positive
- Independent
- Realistic
- Cooperative
- Trustworthy
- Accepting
- Forward moving
- Full of potential.
Innate striving for: SESE PURFREME - Self-actualization - Self-empowerment - Freedom - Purpose - Meaning • Human beings are essentially: - Rational - Constructive (destructive) - Positive - Independent - Realistic - Cooperative - Trustworthy - Accepting - Forward moving - Full of potential. • Humans, like all organisms, naturally tend toward actualization of their full potential. (Gilliland and James, 1998)
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What are the basic assumptions about human beings?
- Psychological Development: - Need for positive regard of his personhood is essential
- People are unique
- They monitor their environment in terms of degrees of pleasantness and unpleasantness. - Development and conditionality is experiencing condition of worth by evaluating their own experience based on the beliefs or values of others which can limit development of the individual.
- Self-Regard and Relationship emphasizes congruence. Relationships improve when the person being listened to feels understood, empathically listened to and not judged. Individual feels a sense of unconditional positive regard and feeling heard by the other person.
- Fully functioning person to experience optimal level of psychological functioning but must meet their need for positive regard from others and have positive regard for themselves.
NOn directive counseling is also called
Client Centered
- Person Centered
- Experiential Counseling
- Rogerian Counseling.
What is non directive counseling
It is a relationship-oriented approach.
• It is devoid of techniques, clients are not ask to do something rather it is geared towards experiential relationship, NOT intellectualizing about the client’s anxieties or affairs.
Major strength of NDC
-PRD
- Personal power
- Responsibility and inner strength.
- Development of the client’s feeling of autonomy
Major concepts of NDC
Major concepts: Self-actualization & Self-direction.
Philosophical orientation of NDC
Philosophical orientation: Faith and respect for the client.
View of the person: FAT PRRICC
PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD
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ROLE of the Counselor in Counseling/Therapy:
Believes that the person is basically good
2. Most important strategies: LEC
- Listening
- Emphatic understanding
- Caring.
3. Encourages inquiry, Hypothesis testing and investigation of results.
4. He is fully involved in the client’s world of values.
- Reflection of attitudes, and feelings
- Self-disclosure
- Kind confrontation to facilitate growth and positive action
5. Creates a role of “constancy and safety” to allow clients to experience: RE PRD
- Responsibility
- Exploration
- Discovery of denied attitudes
- Recognition of self
Progress and Satisfaction.
10 ways to be an effective NDC
- Experience a feeling of inner freedom and congruence and be ready and willing to encourage the same on his client.
- Be transparently genuine in his relationship with no professional front or façade.
- Accept, understand, respect and prize his client as person with worth and dignity.
- Communicate spontaneously a feeling of empathy and unconditional positive regard.
- Impose no external values.
- Trust his client to be responsible and self-directing.
- Misinterpretation about NDC asserts that counselors remains free of values, influence or participation in the client’s world.
- This assertion is wrong because the non-directive counselors is fully active, attending, communicating, reflecting and nurturing the conditions which enables the clients to try new values, new behavior as they move toward positive directions.
THE CHALLENGE OF NDC
To develop within his personality personal congruence
- Therapeutic skills that were Carl Rogers because of his great influence in the practice of counseling after Freud.
