Client centered therapy

By Carl Roger

1. Client- Centered T herapy

2. Client- Centered T herapy Also known as person- centered therapy or Rogerian therapy is an approach to counseling that requires the client to take an active role in his or her treatment with therapist being nondirective and supportive.

3. Carl Rogers January 8, 1902- February 4, 1987 A humanist thinker ; believe that people are fundamentally good. He developed the client- centered during 1940’s and 1950’s.

4. Rogers believe people are capable of self- healing and personal growth, which leads to self-actualization, an important concept in client- centered therapy.

5. How does Client- Centered Therapy works? The primary objective of the therapy is to resolve the incongruence of the clients to help them able to accept and be themselves.

6. How does Client- Centered Therapy works? Purpose of the therapy: Foster a closer agreement between the client’s idealized and actual selves; better understanding. Lower levels of defensiveness, guilt, and insecurity.

7. How does Client- Centered Therapy works? 3. Foster more positive and comfortable relationship with others and increased capacity to experience and express feelings as they occur.

8. How does Client- Centered Therapy works? Concept on “Self” “Self is an outgrowth of what a person experience and awareness of self helps a person differentiate him/her from others.” “Real Self” and “Ideal Self” Positive Regard

9. Six Conditions required for Therapeutic Change Therapist Client Psychological Contact Client Congruence Therapist Congruence Therapist Unconditional positive regard Therapist emphatic understanding Client Perception

10. Process of Therapy

11. C. H Patterson Cecil Holden Patterson Born in Lynn, Massachusetts on June 22, 1912 1938: Bachelor’s degree in Sociology (University of Chicago) 1955: Ph. D in Psychology 9Univesity of Minnesota) Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinios She died on May 26, 2006

12. C. H Patterson Understanding the client Respecting the client Genuineness Specify rather than Generality

13. C. H Patterson The client is the initiator of every process made. Counselor must be active, but not in a directive or controlling way. Counselors do not take responsibility away from client

14. C. H Patterson Counselor must help clients be more assertive Counselor must maintain respect and care for the client Get the clients be involved in obtaining their own decisions

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