According to person centered therapy people are basically good and they are characteristically “positive, forward moving, constructive, realistic, and trustworthy.” Moreover, each of us is aware, inner directed, and moving toward self-actualization from the date we are born. From infancy what the person perceives becomes their reality. All infants are born with self actualizing tendency and their subsequent goal directed behavior is geared to satisfy their self-actualization. Their interaction with their environment is an organized whole, and everything they do is interrelated. Their experience, whether positive or negative depends on the extent to which they enhance their actualization tendency. And they maintain the experiences that are actualizing and avoid ones that are not. Rogers proposed that self actualization is the most prevalent and motivating drive of human existence.
Rogers’ theory of personality development revolves around several core concepts: the organism, which is the complete individual, including physical as well as psychological well …show more content…
The specific goals are client self directed and designed partly to eliminate clients’ unhealthy need to please others. The goals of person-centered therapy can be conceptualized as a two step process, first moving away from the self that one is not and then moving toward one’s true self. The goal of the therapist is to be rather an do, providing a therapeutic climate of safely and trust that will motivate the client’s reintegration of their self actualizing and self valuing process. The client in person-centered counseling is responsible for themselves. They can learn to become themselves by using the therapeutic relationship to gain self-understanding. The client’s self healing capacities are activated by the supportive climate the therapist provides and is ignited once the client lets go of their masks and
Rogers’ theory of personality development revolves around several core concepts: the organism, which is the complete individual, including physical as well as psychological well …show more content…
The specific goals are client self directed and designed partly to eliminate clients’ unhealthy need to please others. The goals of person-centered therapy can be conceptualized as a two step process, first moving away from the self that one is not and then moving toward one’s true self. The goal of the therapist is to be rather an do, providing a therapeutic climate of safely and trust that will motivate the client’s reintegration of their self actualizing and self valuing process. The client in person-centered counseling is responsible for themselves. They can learn to become themselves by using the therapeutic relationship to gain self-understanding. The client’s self healing capacities are activated by the supportive climate the therapist provides and is ignited once the client lets go of their masks and