Lpc Theorists With Theories

Front 1

individual is good and moves toward growth and self-actualization

Back 1

Rogers (Person-Centered)

Front 2

Messages learned about self in childhood determine whether person is good or bad, though intervention can change this script

Back 2

Berne (Transactional Analysis)

Front 3

Deterministic; people are controlled by biological instincts; are unsocialized, irrational; driven by unconscious forces such as sex and aggression

Back 3

Freud (Psychoanalysis)

Front 4

People have a cultural/biological propensity to think in a disturbed manner but can be taught to use their capacity to react differently

Back 4

Ellis (Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy)

Front 5

People are not bad or good. People have the capacity to govern life effectively as "whole". People are part of their environment and must be viewed as such

Back 5

Perls (Gestalt)

Front 6

Individuals strive to meet basic physiological needs and the need to be worthwhile to self and others. Brain as control system tries to meet needs.

Back 6

Glasser (Reality Therapy)

Front 7

Man is basically good; much of behavior is determined via birth order

Back 7

Adler (Individual Psychology)

Front 8

Man strives for individuation or a sense of self-fulfillment

Back 8

Jung (Analytic Psychology)

Front 9

Humans are like other animals; mechanistic and controlled via environmental stimuli and reinforcement contingencies; not good or bad; no self-determination or freedom

Back 9

Skinner (Behavior Modification)

Front 10

Person produces and is a product of conditioning

Back 10

Bandura (Neobehavioristic)

Front 11

Existential view is that humans are good, rational, and retain freedom of choice

Back 11

Frankl (Logotherapy)

Front 12

through education and scientific data, man can become himself. Humans are born with potential for good or evil. Others are needed to help unleash positive potential. Man is mainly rational, not intuitive

Back 12

Williamson (Trait-factor)