Carl Rogers

An Integration of Family and Person- Centered Theory Using the Person- Centered theory allows me to use the empathy with clients (Hazler, 2016). When empathy is not used this can hinder the growth and development of a client when they do not have this support in their lives. Using empathy is therapeutic and is an unconditional positive regard in the client’s progress. This will allow me as a counselor to give the acceptance needed by the clients. In addition, person-centered therapy is also…

Carl Rogers once said, “In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?” (Carl Rogers Quotes 2018). Humans have a unique way of understanding oneself and rationalizing the way they are. We set goals for our future selves and are aware of our actions and the consequences of those actions. This is one of the…

Carl Rogers is one of the humanistic psychologists. He considers being an innate motivation for self-actualization. Rogers is conceptualizes that raising awareness of true feelings causes the self-concept to become more congruent with individual experiences (Rogers 1961:61). Person-centered psychotherapy (also known as client-centered or Rogerian therapy) is a form of talk therapy developed by Carl Rogers in the 1940s and 1950s (Ali Miller 2012:5). Rogers' theory of humanism is…

While I have seen value and merit in all of the theories that we have reviewed, I found myself relating most to the theory of Person-Centered therapy, Adlerian Theory, and Relational-Cultural Theory (RCT). According to Parsons & Zhang (2014), “For Rogers, the more the client can trust his or her own experience as a guide for living, the better an intuitive scientist he or she becomes,” (p. 180). In Person-Centered therapy the counselor does not set goals for the client but supports the goals…

Carl Rogers founded the humanistic approach to therapy known as person-client centered therapy. Rogers was a pioneer in terms of his revolutionary ideas and novel ways of thinking. He didn’t approve of the systematic methods used by psychoanalysts. He thought psychodynamic methodology created too much distance between the therapist and client. According to Rogers, therapy is more effective if the client grasped with his feelings, emotions and thoughts and the therapist supported them.…

Carl Rogers developed the person-centered theory, his major focus is on an individual’s “humanistic” abilities and their need to belong through “self-actualization” meaning that it “focuses less on diagnosing” because it works to lead the client/patient to be autonomous (independent) on themselves that may help them and those around their social circle too (Barclay, 2016, p. 127). According to Kass (2015), Rogers understood that people grow and develop in accordance with their personality traits…

psychologists that has shaped the way people think of people and themselves. Of those noted psychologists is Carl Rogers, an influential American phycologists born on January 8,1902 in Oak Park, IL and died on February 4, 1987. Rogers was famously known for both his humanistic and client-centered approach to psychology (Hall, 1997). This paper look into the life, works, and beliefs of Carl Rogers. Rogers was born on January 8, 1902, in Oak Park, Illinois. One of six children born into the…

On Becoming a Person is a book written by Carl R. Rogers it is a simple text on Humanistic and Existential psychotherapy. The book is written about work Rogers carried out during the nineteen fifty’s and sixty’s. The book has many interesting idea’s and perspectives on personal growth and development. In the book Rogers talks about the idea of oneself getting in touch with there emotions so that he or she might go about there life based on there real self rather living a life based on there…

observable behaviors or to read into their psychological transgressions. Among the research done in this field, two main psychologists stood out. Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers both contributed heavily to this sub discipline of psychological study. The basic idea of humanistic psychology falls within the therapist trying…

Carl Rogers was a pioneer in psychology, particularly humanistic psychology where he centered his career on a person-centered approach to therapy. His unique approach was used to understand personality and human relationships. Rogers figured that people were trying to strive for satisfaction within their lives, and who are open to their life experiences, instead of following a basic path for themselves. His technique is used today and is considered the “norm” for humanistic psychology today.…