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Who developed Person-Centered Therapy and the humanistic movement in psychotherapy?
Carl Rogers
What in Rogers's life impacted the development of the theory?
his family life and background
What are the 2 core themes of the theory of person-centered therapy if clients are to change?
-non-judgemental listening
-acceptance
What were Rogers's interactions with his mother like?
negative and judgemental
hoe did Rogers apply person centered therapy to world peace later in his professional career?
he applied it by training policymakers, leaders, and groups in conflict. He was nominated for a Nobel Peace prize.
What does Person-Centered Therapy challenge about assumptions of the counselor?
PCT challenges the assumption that the "counselor knows best"
What does PCT challenge the validity of?
PCT challenges the validity of advice, suggestion, persuasion, teaching, diagnosis, and interpretation
What does PCT challenge about assumptions of the client?
PCT challenges the belief that clients cannot understand and respove their own problems without direct help.
What does PCT focus on, problems or persons?
persons. PCT challenges the focus on problems over persons.
What does PCT assume given a particular therapeutic climate? (main point of PCT)
given a particular therapeutic climate, individuals will choose for themselves a growth producing and psychologically healthy direction for their lives.
PCT emphasizes these 5 things:
-Therapy as a journey shared by two fallible people
-the person's innate striving for self-actualization
-the personal characteristics of the therapist and the quality of the therapeutic relationship
-the counselor's creation of a permissive "growth promoting climate"
-people are capable of self-directed growth if involved in a therapeutic relationship
What 3 things make up a growth promoting climate in PCT?
-congruence (genuineness or realness)
-unconditional positive regard (acceptance and caring but not approval of all behavior
-accurate empathic understanding (an ability to deeply grasp the client's subjective world -- helper attitudes are more important than knowledge)
What are the 6 conditions that are necessary and sufficient for personality changes to occur in PCT?
1. Two persona are in psychological contact
2. The client is experiencing incongruency
3. The therapist is congruent/integrated in the relationship
4. The therapist experiences unconditional positive regard/real caring for the client
5. The therapist experiences empathy for the client's internal frame of reference and endeavors to communicate this to the client
6. The communication to the client is, to a minimal degree, achieved
What are the 4 things that are important for the therapist in Person-Cenetered Therapy?
The therapist...
-focuses on the QUALITY of the therapeutic relationship
-Serves as a MODEL of a human being struggling toward greater realness
-Is GENUINE, integrated, and authentic, without a false front
-Can OPENLY EXPRESS feelings and attitudes that are present in the relationship with the client.
What does the person-centered approach aim toward a greater degree of?
Independence and integration of the individual
What does PCT assist clients in?
the growth process
The underlying goal of the PCT approach is to provide...
...a climate conducive to helping the individual becom a fully functioning person.
What does PCT help remove?
masks or the facades that clients are wearing
Rogers states that once the masks are removed, clients can become increasingly more actualized by (4 things):
-an openness to experience
-a trust in themselves
-an internal source of evaluation
-a willingness to keep on growing