Test 2 Flashcards
What do children need?
Unconditional positive regard.
What is the exploration stage influenced by?
Carl roger’s yheory of personality development and psychological change.
What does phenomenology place emphasis on?
Experiences, feelings, values, and the inner life of the client. All people have the potential for healthy and creative growth - Rogers.
What is the basic motivational force?
Tendency towards self actualization. This is an inherent ability. We are resilient and have potentiality blueprints.
What is the OVP?
Organismic valuing process. Evaluation of each experience of how it makes you feel, not how you should feel. No experiences are more or less worthy.
This leads to self actualization and seeking enhancing experiences.
When do children feel unconditional positive regard?
When their experiences are consistent with feedback from others.
What happens if you have too many COWs?
You will not be open to experience, accepting of feelings, capable of living in the present, free to make choices, trusting, capable of feeling aggression and affection, and capable of creativity.
What do COWs do to the self?
Cause a conflicted sense of self. It may be weakened to the point where you cannot recognize it experience feelings as belonging to the self.
This happens if OVP is disabled, and externally imposed values substitute.
What are COWs?
Conditions of worth. They may cause the sacrifice f the OVP for love.
What does incongruent lead to?
Inauthentic expressions of feelings. Low self regard, defensiveness, anxiety, depression. You will feel threatened with more distortion.
Children must…?
Become socialized to live in families and society. Others have needs that conflict with theirs. Manner of socialization is crucial. Empathize but place limits.
What guides behavior?
Subjective internal experience Guides behavior not external reality. This varies between people.
What is perceptual distortion?
Altering or miss interpreting one’s experience to make it compatible with one’s self-concept. This is a defense mechanism
What is denial and how can it be harmful to the self?
Denial is a defense mechanism that can take a toll on the self.
- the subjective reality can become incongruent with the external reality
- a person might develop a rigidity a perception in areas in which he or she is had to defend against perceiving reality
- or the real self can become incongruent with the ideal self suggesting a discrepancy between who one is and who one wishes to be
How can you overcome disintegration rigidity or discrepancies between real and ideal selves?
Become aware of the distorted or denied experience. you need to reduce the CEO W’s and increased positive self regard by getting it from others. This is reintegration and it may trigger defense mechanisms.
