• Unconditional positive regard- the nonevaluative, nonjudgmental attitude of the counselor towards the client’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
• Empathy- understating the client’s world just as the client does.
When these conditions are met, rogers claimed, clients can arrive at self-understanding and resolve conflicts (Nugent, p. 96). As time went on, Rogers published more books and expanded his theory due to his continued experiential nature of the counseling process. He established a new name for his theory which was called person-centered which was an approach for teaching and educational administration. In addition, he taught about encounter groups-human relationships in all spheres of society, on marriage and other forms of partnership that he believed would emerge with a new type of “self-empowered person” (Nugent, p. …show more content…
111). The theoretical integration- counselors take two or more counseling theories and combine into a systematic whole (Nugent, p. 111). And technical eclecticism- where the professional uses one theoretical view of personality and selects various techniques from many theoretical orientations which is in contrast to unsystematic eclecticism (Nugent, p.