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    Person-centered therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, focuses on creating a supportive therapeutic relationship where the client takes an active role. The therapist aims to develop congruence, unconditional positive regard, and accurate empathy to help the client resolve incongruences and fully accept themselves. The six core conditions for change include the psychological contact between client and therapist, the client's incongruence, the therapist's congruence and positive regard, achieved communication, and the client's perception of the therapist. While allowing for creativity, limitations include cultural considerations and difficulty standardizing without specific techniques.

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    Person-centered therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, focuses on creating a supportive therapeutic relationship where the client takes an active role. The therapist aims to develop congruence, unconditional positive regard, and accurate empathy to help the client resolve incongruences and fully accept themselves. The six core conditions for change include the psychological contact between client and therapist, the client's incongruence, the therapist's congruence and positive regard, achieved communication, and the client's perception of the therapist. While allowing for creativity, limitations include cultural considerations and difficulty standardizing without specific techniques.

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    Person-centered therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, focuses on creating a supportive therapeutic relationship where the client takes an active role. The therapist aims to develop congruence, unconditional positive regard, and accurate empathy to help the client resolve incongruences and fully accept themselves. The six core conditions for change include the psychological contact between client and therapist, the client's incongruence, the therapist's congruence and positive regard, achieved communication, and the client's perception of the therapist. While allowing for creativity, limitations include cultural considerations and difficulty standardizing without specific techniques.

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    PERSON-CENTERED THERAPY

    Client- Centered Therapy


    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 non-directive
    and supportive.
    BACKGROUND:

    Ú CARL ROGERS

    (THEORY OF PERSONALITY)
    Ú Humanistically oriented
    Ú Focus on phenomenology
    Ú Role of the self
    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.
    Therapy is a Growth-Promoting Climate

    Congruence
    Genuineness or realness in the therapy session

    Unconditional positive regard


    Acceptance and genuine caring about the client as a valuable
    person

    Accurate empathic understanding


    The ability to deeply grasp the client’s subjective world
    Congruence
    refers to
    therapist’s
    openness and
    Empathy genuineness;
    willingness to Unconditional
    Showing relate to clients. Positive Regard
    emotional Therapist
    understanding accepts clients
    and sensitivity totally for who
    he or she is.

    Main
    Components
    Condition 4 - Psychological Contact

    Condition 5 -The Client's Perception of the Therapist

    Condition 6 - Client Incongruence


    Six Conditions


    1. Two persons are in psychological contact


    2. The first, the client, is experiencing incongruence
    3. The second person, the therapist, is congruent or integrated in the
    relationship
    4. The therapist experiences unconditional positive regard or real
    caring for the client
    5. The therapist experiences empathy for the client’s internal frame of
    reference and endeavors to communicate this to the client
    6. The communication to the client is, to a minimal degree, achieved
    Changes that tend to occur as client
    moves toward self-actualization

    Ú Open to experience
    Ú Self-Trust
    Ú Internal source of evaluation
    Ú Willingness to continue
    growing
    Techniques:

    • Roger’s minimize the use of techniques, instead he


    concentrates on the importance of counseling
    relationship.

    • Can create core conditions that is necessary


    for self-actualization.

    • Using the 6 conditions


    • Listening skills.
    The Therapist
    - Focuses on the quality of the therapeutic relationship

    - Provides a supportive therapeutic environment in which the client is the agent


    of change and healing

    - Serves as a model of a human being struggling toward greater realness

    - Is genuine, integrated, and authentic, without a false front

    - Can openly express feelings and attitudes that are present in the relationship
    with the client

    - Is invested in developing his or her own life experiences to deepen self- -


    knowledge and move toward self-actualization
    Application to Group Counseling
    Therapist takes on the role of facilitator
    - Creates therapeutic environment
    - Techniques are not stressed
    - Exhibits deep trust of the group members
    - Provides support for members
    - Group members set the goals for the group

    Group setting fosters an open and accepting community where members


    can work on self-acceptance

    Individuals learn that they do not have to experience the process of


    change alone and grow from the support of group members
    Person-Centered Expressive Arts
    Therapy
    Various creative art forms
    - promote healing and self-discovery

    Creative expression connects us to our feelings which are a source of life


    energy.
    - Feelings must be experienced to achieve self-awareness.

    Individuals explore new facets of the self and uncover insights that
    transform them, creating wholeness
    - Discovery of wholeness leads to understanding of how we relate to the outer
    world.
    Conditions for Creativity
    - Acceptance of the individual

    - A non-judgmental setting

    - Empathy

    - Psychological freedom

    - Stimulating and challenging experiences

    - Individuals who have experienced unsafe creative environments feel “held


    back” and may disengage from creative processes

    - Safe, creative environments give clients permission to be authentic and to


    delve deeply into their experiences
    Listening

    Responding Accepting

    Therapy
    Techniques

    Understanding Respecting
    C. H Patterson

    1. Understanding the client


    2. Respecting the client
    3. Genuineness
    4. Specify rather than Generality
    C. H Patterson

    The client is the initiator of every


    process made.
    Counselor must be active, but not in a
    directive or controlling way.
    C. H Patterson
    Counselor must help clients be more
    assertive
    Counselor must maintain respectand
    care for the client
    Get the clients be involved in obtaining
    their own decisions
    Limitations of the Person-Centered
    Approach
    Cultural considerations
    Some clients may prefer a more directive, structured treatment
    Individuals accustomed to indirect communication may not be
    comfortable with direct expression of empathy or creativity
    Individuals from collectivistic cultures may disagree with the emphasis
    on internal locus of control

    Does not focus on the use of specific techniques, making this treatment
    difficult to standardize

    Beginning therapists may find it difficult to provide both support and


    challenges to clients

    Limits of the therapist as a person may interfere with developing a


    genuine therapeutic relationship

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