Abc Certificate Counselling Skills Unit 2 Counselling Theory
UNIT 2: Counselling Theory assignment C1
ABC Certificate Counselling skills
Carl Rogers, Born in Chicago in 1902 as the 4th of 6 children in a strict Fundamentalist Christian household.
Following a course in clinical and educational psychology at Teachers college, Columbia, working with Leta Hollingsworth, he then moved on to the Rochester Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Whilst at Rochester, Rogers was influenced by the work of Jessie Taft and Elizabeth Davies both students of Otto Rank, he linked Rank’s work to the idea’s of William H. Kilpatrick, with whom he studied philosophy of Education at Teachers college and John Dewey who said :-
“A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment of its institutions through interaction of the different forms of associated life is in so far democratic. Such a society must have a type of education which gives individuals a personal interest in social relationships and control, and the habits of mind which secure social changes without introducing disorder”.
Rogers would have identified with these ideas and whilst he was at Rochester he came to believe in the individual’s capacity to find his own way forward and this belief founded on his own clinical experience, in fact Rogers stated that it was at this time that he began to “realise the possibilities of the individual being self directing”
Tony Merry suggests that Person Centred Counselling has continued to evolve, the first phase from 1940 through to the early 1950’s he calls the “non-directive” phase, the second phase, he calls the “Client Centred” phase from 1950 through till the early 1960’s and lastly the “person Centred” phase from the1960’s till present, though he also believes that we are now entering a fourth phase the “client Centred” phase.
Since the 1950s when Maslow, Rogers and May developed what came to be known as the Humanistic
ABC Certificate Counselling skills
Carl Rogers, Born in Chicago in 1902 as the 4th of 6 children in a strict Fundamentalist Christian household.
Following a course in clinical and educational psychology at Teachers college, Columbia, working with Leta Hollingsworth, he then moved on to the Rochester Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Whilst at Rochester, Rogers was influenced by the work of Jessie Taft and Elizabeth Davies both students of Otto Rank, he linked Rank’s work to the idea’s of William H. Kilpatrick, with whom he studied philosophy of Education at Teachers college and John Dewey who said :-
“A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment of its institutions through interaction of the different forms of associated life is in so far democratic. Such a society must have a type of education which gives individuals a personal interest in social relationships and control, and the habits of mind which secure social changes without introducing disorder”.
Rogers would have identified with these ideas and whilst he was at Rochester he came to believe in the individual’s capacity to find his own way forward and this belief founded on his own clinical experience, in fact Rogers stated that it was at this time that he began to “realise the possibilities of the individual being self directing”
Tony Merry suggests that Person Centred Counselling has continued to evolve, the first phase from 1940 through to the early 1950’s he calls the “non-directive” phase, the second phase, he calls the “Client Centred” phase from 1950 through till the early 1960’s and lastly the “person Centred” phase from the1960’s till present, though he also believes that we are now entering a fourth phase the “client Centred” phase.
Since the 1950s when Maslow, Rogers and May developed what came to be known as the Humanistic
Bibliography: First steps in Counselling, Pete Sanders Next steps in Counselling, Pete Sanders Person Centred Counselling in action, Dave Mearns and Brian Thorn Learning and being in Person centred counselling, Tony Merry On becoming a person, Carl R. Rogers Counselling skills and theory, Margaret Hough Words (original) 1875 Words (quotes) 975 Total 2850