Person Centered Therapy

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What does Carl Roger's theory focus on?

Back 1

It focused on human potential rather than pathology

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What are the themes of Person Centered Therapy?

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The client is the "expert"

Emphasize the client's uniqueness

Goal directed, self enhancing

Basic trustworthiness of humans

Focus on feelings, present

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What is the curative factor?

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Empathic relationship

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Actualizing Tendency

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inherent tendency of the organism to develop all of its capacities in ways which serve to maintain or enhance the organism

ex: free choice, we prefer to be healthy rather than sick and further our optimal development

core of roger's theory

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self experience

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any aspect of the experience that a person believes to be "me" or "I"

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self concept

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the organized set of beliefs and perceptions that a person holds regarding him or herself

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ideal self

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the self concept that a person would like to possess

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congruence

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healthy functioning is characterized by this between self experience and self concept

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internal locus of evaluation

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we are naturally capable of knowing how well experiences maintain or enhance the self

we use these judgements to evaluate experiences as + or - and seek the + and avoid the -

changed based on new experiences

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positive regard

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acceptance, respect, sympathy, warmth & love

we have a need of this from others

youth depend on this for worthiness but eventually can provide this as autonomy is achieved

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unconditional positive self regard

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sigh of psychological health

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conditional + regard

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we are more likely to recieve + regard for conditions of worth

external locus of evaluation

self concept is often based on this (lack of genuineness)

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Incongruence

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- conflicted self
- feelings of threat & anxiety when self experience conflicts with self concept

- threatening b/c you aren't functioning according to the single standard of the organismic valuing process

- consistency is mainted through defense mechanisms - perceptual distortion and denial

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what happens when the rift between self experience and self concept is too big for the defenses to handle?

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the person experiences psychological distress and personality disintegration

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what is the goal of person centered therapy?

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the goal is to provide a relationship in which clients can achieve improved self concept, greater use of internal local of evaluation

greater awareness of immediate experience

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what must the therapist offer?

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congruence and genuineness

unconditional + regard

empathy

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what must the client offer?

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state of incongruence

perceive therapists empathy