In this assignment I will look at Rogers’ s six conditions and why they are considered necessary and sufficient for therapeutic change. I will also consider the implications of this theory for counsellor education.
After a short amount of time studying Person Centred Counselling the understanding of how the six conditions are necessary and sufficient is starting to emerge and become a real part of my conscious actions and way of being. Each of the six conditions come with their own difficulties as a student counsellor and although we may use empathy and listening skills in our day to day life, until we look more closely, we do not appreciate how we are often in life, and our relationships, not actually listening or being empathetic when …show more content…
I feel sad to have spent so much time not hearing the people I love. I can recall instances when I have given advice based on what I have heard, without checking-out or being sure that I was in the other persons frame of reference.
Since beginning the course and having begun to learn the skills required to achieve Rogers’s six conditions, I have become more self-aware and more honest and open in my communication, as well as more emotional. I have seen evidence of the same with my fellow students. The theory of person centred counselling and the six conditions is greatly enabled by our group practice sessions. We seem to grow at a surprising rate with each experience. I feel like a small sapling that has a growth spurt and reaches the light with each advancement towards achieving Rogers conditions.
The student studying Rogers’s six conditions would seem to be growing both personally, as in the personal development of the ‘to be’ counsellor and towards a professional situation where they will be able to help clients in real therapy situations. To provide the six conditions we need to be in tune with ourselves and to be taking care of how we are and how we are feeling, mind and body. We must always be checking-in with ourselves. Otherwise we risk not being congruent in the client …show more content…
The therapist it seems must come to the relationship being fully self aware and able to leave any of their own ‘baggage’ outside of the session. If this is not possible, it would be important to communicate what is happening to the client so that the psychological contact remains and the therapist is able to enter the world of the client unhindered. The client needs help and the counsellor is there to help.
The fourth condition necessary for therapeutic change is Unconditional Positive Regard, “The therapist experiences unconditional positive regard for the client” (Rogers,1957) described by Means and Thorne as “the label given to the fundamental attitude of the person-centred counsellor towards her client. The counsellor who holds this attitude deeply values the humanity of her client and it is not deflected in that valuing by any particular client behaviours. The attitude manifests itself in the counsellor’s consistent acceptance of and enduring warmth towards the client”. (Means, Thorne, and McLeod, 2013, p.78)
The counsellor, by valuing the client no matter what they bring into the relationship, is demonstrating, unconditional positive regard and so creating along with the other conditions therapeutic change to be possible for the
After a short amount of time studying Person Centred Counselling the understanding of how the six conditions are necessary and sufficient is starting to emerge and become a real part of my conscious actions and way of being. Each of the six conditions come with their own difficulties as a student counsellor and although we may use empathy and listening skills in our day to day life, until we look more closely, we do not appreciate how we are often in life, and our relationships, not actually listening or being empathetic when …show more content…
I feel sad to have spent so much time not hearing the people I love. I can recall instances when I have given advice based on what I have heard, without checking-out or being sure that I was in the other persons frame of reference.
Since beginning the course and having begun to learn the skills required to achieve Rogers’s six conditions, I have become more self-aware and more honest and open in my communication, as well as more emotional. I have seen evidence of the same with my fellow students. The theory of person centred counselling and the six conditions is greatly enabled by our group practice sessions. We seem to grow at a surprising rate with each experience. I feel like a small sapling that has a growth spurt and reaches the light with each advancement towards achieving Rogers conditions.
The student studying Rogers’s six conditions would seem to be growing both personally, as in the personal development of the ‘to be’ counsellor and towards a professional situation where they will be able to help clients in real therapy situations. To provide the six conditions we need to be in tune with ourselves and to be taking care of how we are and how we are feeling, mind and body. We must always be checking-in with ourselves. Otherwise we risk not being congruent in the client …show more content…
The therapist it seems must come to the relationship being fully self aware and able to leave any of their own ‘baggage’ outside of the session. If this is not possible, it would be important to communicate what is happening to the client so that the psychological contact remains and the therapist is able to enter the world of the client unhindered. The client needs help and the counsellor is there to help.
The fourth condition necessary for therapeutic change is Unconditional Positive Regard, “The therapist experiences unconditional positive regard for the client” (Rogers,1957) described by Means and Thorne as “the label given to the fundamental attitude of the person-centred counsellor towards her client. The counsellor who holds this attitude deeply values the humanity of her client and it is not deflected in that valuing by any particular client behaviours. The attitude manifests itself in the counsellor’s consistent acceptance of and enduring warmth towards the client”. (Means, Thorne, and McLeod, 2013, p.78)
The counsellor, by valuing the client no matter what they bring into the relationship, is demonstrating, unconditional positive regard and so creating along with the other conditions therapeutic change to be possible for the