The therapeutic goal of Person-Centered therapy is to help clients achiev a greater degree of independence and integration. The focus is on the person and not the problem they are describing. By providing a climate conducive to the client’s self-actualization, the therapist assists clients in their growth process so they can better cope with problems as they come.
In therapy, the client will recognize they have lost contact with themselves by using facades and realize there are more authentic ways of being.
For a client to become actualized, the therapists encourages the client to have an openness to their experience, trust in themselves, use their internal source of evaluation, or organismic valuing process, and to have a willingness to …show more content…
Unlike past theories where techniques are used to get the client to react in specific ways, the therapist’s attitude facilitates personality change in clients. It is the therapist’s attitude and belief in the inner resources of the client that creates therapeutic climate for growth. It is important to encounter the client in a person- to person way and not be overly reliant on being professional. Overemphasis on the professional role is seen as the therapist’s way of protecting themselves from overinvolvement with the clients. The therapist’s function is to be present and accessible to clients by focusing on immediate experiences. The therapists must be real in the therapeutic relationship by being congruent, accepting, and empathetic allowing them to be the catalyst for change. These three factors are the therapeutic techniques for …show more content…
Through the relationship, the client learns to be more responsible for themselves and learn to be more free by usinh the relationship to gain grerater self-understanding. As counseling progresses, the client explores a wider range of feelings by expressing their anger, fear, anxiety, guilt, as well as other emotions they deem too negative to accept or incorportate into their self structure. As the person begin to accept and intergrate conflicting feelings about themselves, they begin to discover aspects of themselves that have been hidden. By feeling understood and accepted, they become less defensive and more open to new experiences. The client feels safer and less vulnerable allowing them to be more realistic, percieve others with more accuracy, and become better able to understand and accept others. They are less concerned with meeting other’s expectations and begin to behave in ways that are truer to themselves. They begin to direct their own lives instead of looking outside of themselves for answers. The person begins to have more contact with experiencing the present moment and less bound to the
In therapy, the client will recognize they have lost contact with themselves by using facades and realize there are more authentic ways of being.
For a client to become actualized, the therapists encourages the client to have an openness to their experience, trust in themselves, use their internal source of evaluation, or organismic valuing process, and to have a willingness to …show more content…
Unlike past theories where techniques are used to get the client to react in specific ways, the therapist’s attitude facilitates personality change in clients. It is the therapist’s attitude and belief in the inner resources of the client that creates therapeutic climate for growth. It is important to encounter the client in a person- to person way and not be overly reliant on being professional. Overemphasis on the professional role is seen as the therapist’s way of protecting themselves from overinvolvement with the clients. The therapist’s function is to be present and accessible to clients by focusing on immediate experiences. The therapists must be real in the therapeutic relationship by being congruent, accepting, and empathetic allowing them to be the catalyst for change. These three factors are the therapeutic techniques for …show more content…
Through the relationship, the client learns to be more responsible for themselves and learn to be more free by usinh the relationship to gain grerater self-understanding. As counseling progresses, the client explores a wider range of feelings by expressing their anger, fear, anxiety, guilt, as well as other emotions they deem too negative to accept or incorportate into their self structure. As the person begin to accept and intergrate conflicting feelings about themselves, they begin to discover aspects of themselves that have been hidden. By feeling understood and accepted, they become less defensive and more open to new experiences. The client feels safer and less vulnerable allowing them to be more realistic, percieve others with more accuracy, and become better able to understand and accept others. They are less concerned with meeting other’s expectations and begin to behave in ways that are truer to themselves. They begin to direct their own lives instead of looking outside of themselves for answers. The person begins to have more contact with experiencing the present moment and less bound to the