Psych 406 Unit 9 Person Centered Therapy

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iv. Three attributes promote clients realizing their potential: (aka Core conditions)

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a) Congruence (genuinenessor realness)
b) Unconditional positive regard (acceptance and caring)
c) Accurate empathic understanding (ability to deeply grasp subjective world of another person.

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Hypothesis about the therapeutic relationship

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a) Two persons in psychological contact
b) 1st, client, is incongruent, being culnerable/anxious
c) 2nd, therapist, is congruent/integrated in relationship
d) Therapist feels unconditional positive regard
e) Therapist experiences empathic understanding of clients internal frame of reference, endeavors to communicate this experience to client
f) This communication to client and UPR is to a minimal degree achieved.

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PCP technique i. Early Emphasis on Reflection of Feelings

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a) Shift from nondirective stance/reflection of understanding client's world to emp. on relationship with client. ie. moved away from simply restating what the client just said.

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PCP techniques ii. Evolution of Person centered methods.

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a) Therapist's presence is critical: the client has resourcefulness to do the rest.
b) Therapist must evolve as person.
c) Interventions are: listening, accepting, respecting, undertading, and responding.
d) Lots of diversity/innovation in individual practices.: wider variety of methods now.
e) Guiding question: does it fit?
f) Must be authentic

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PCT Technique iii. The Role of Assessment

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a) Therapist's assessment of lcient not so important as cleitn's self-assessment.
b) Battery of tests may give client the impression the counslor is going to provide the solutions.
c) Goal is to dvelop a plan for how to involve clients in assessment and treatment proces.

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Similaritiies between PCT and Existentialism/Gestalt

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Phenomenological approach
Trust client to make constructive choices
Freedom, choice, values, personal responsibility, autonomy, purpose, and meaning.
Both call for therapist to enter the clients subjective world, and both say client can become self-aware and self-healing.

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Differences between PCT and Existentialism/Gestalt

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Existentialists say we are faced with anxiety of choosing/creating ID in meaningless world.
Humanists are less anxietyized: we all have natural poetntial to actualize, thru which we find meaning.
Underlying humanistic vision: acorn will grow under the right conditions. Existentialists say we have no such internal acorn/nature. We will not necessarily grow into an oak. We must choose this condition.

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accurate empathic understanding

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act of perceiving internal frame of refrence of another person; grasping the person's subjective world without losing own ID

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congruence (genuineness)

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State in which self-experiences are accurately symbolized in the self-concept. For therapist: matching one's inner experiencing with external expressions.

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growth-promoting climate

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Necessary and sufficient characteristics of therapeutic relationship for client change to occur. Core conditions include therapist congruence (genuineness), unconditional positive regard (acceptance and respect), and accurate empathic understanding.

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non-directive counselling

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The first period of development of Carl Rogers' theory. Reaction against directy psychoanalytic and behaviorist approaches. Later shifted to an emphasis on the client rather than non-directive methods.

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self-actualizing tendency

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growth force within us: actualizing tendency leading to full development of potential; basis on which people can be trusted to ID and resolve their own problems with the support of a therapeutic relationship.

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unconditional positive regard and acceptance

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nonjudmental expression of a fundamental respect for person as a human; acceptance of a person's right to his or her feelings.