Person Centred Approaches to Counselling
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Person Centred Approaches to Counselling
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Carl Rogers (1902-1987), was an American psychologist who in the early 1950’s pioneered the Person Centred Approach. He developed an approach which was in contrast to the more scientific Psychodynamic and Behaviourist models, the popular approaches at that time. The Person Centred Approach is more concerned with the interests, needs and well-being of humans and their capabilities in areas of personal growth, choice and creativity. The therapy was more simpler, warmer and optimistic. Another theorist, Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) also belonged to this strand of theory.
Both Rogers and Maslow thought that personal growth was an essential part of what it is to be human and their theories encourage this. Rogers believed that humans are basically good have an innate drive to reach their full potential and be satisfied with their lives. Rogers assumptions were that people are essentially good and trustworthy with positive inner qualities with the potential for self-understanding and resolving their own problems. He believed that the counsellor did not need to intervene or provide solutions to the client, the client was capable of finding their own solutions: “...the individual has within himself or herself vast resources for self-understanding, for altering his or her self-concept, attitudes and self-directed behaviour - and that these resources can be tapped if only a definable climate of facilitative psychological attitudes can be provided.” Rogers (1986).
For Rogers, the main theory of Person-Centred counselling was the Actualising Tendency: the one motivating force we all have within us for the potential for growth. Agreeing with the main assumptions of Maslow but adding that in order to grow a person needed an environment which provided them with acceptance, genuineness and empathy. He argued that without these, relationships and healthy personalities would not develop as they ought to. Everyone...
Task 1:
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Carl Rogers (1902-1987), was an American psychologist who in the early 1950’s pioneered the Person Centred Approach. He developed an approach which was in contrast to the more scientific Psychodynamic and Behaviourist models, the popular approaches at that time. The Person Centred Approach is more concerned with the interests, needs and well-being of humans and their capabilities in areas of personal growth, choice and creativity. The therapy was more simpler, warmer and optimistic. Another theorist, Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) also belonged to this strand of theory.
Both Rogers and Maslow thought that personal growth was an essential part of what it is to be human and their theories encourage this. Rogers believed that humans are basically good have an innate drive to reach their full potential and be satisfied with their lives. Rogers assumptions were that people are essentially good and trustworthy with positive inner qualities with the potential for self-understanding and resolving their own problems. He believed that the counsellor did not need to intervene or provide solutions to the client, the client was capable of finding their own solutions: “...the individual has within himself or herself vast resources for self-understanding, for altering his or her self-concept, attitudes and self-directed behaviour - and that these resources can be tapped if only a definable climate of facilitative psychological attitudes can be provided.” Rogers (1986).
For Rogers, the main theory of Person-Centred counselling was the Actualising Tendency: the one motivating force we all have within us for the potential for growth. Agreeing with the main assumptions of Maslow but adding that in order to grow a person needed an environment which provided them with acceptance, genuineness and empathy. He argued that without these, relationships and healthy personalities would not develop as they ought to. Everyone...