Carl Rogers Person Centred Counselling

Carl Rogers is one of the pre-eminent psychologist of the twentieth century, founder of the client cantered approach to therapy he was able to break with conventions of his time and create new approaches. The work of Rogers was recognised in 1956 when he received the American Psychological Association 's Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions (Faber, 1998). In a 2002 study, which used a qualitative approach to examine the work of different psychologists of the twentieth century using a range of measures including the publications and citations in which they have appeared and recognition, Rogers was determined be the sixth most important psychologists of the twentieth century (Haggbloom et al, 2002). In terms of the clinical psychologists he was deemed to be only the second most pre-eminent practitioner, behind Sigmund Freud (Haggbloom et al, 2002). There are also other recognitions, for example in 1964 the American Humanist Association chose him as humanist of the year. The importance and application of his work can be seen in the way the theories of not being limited only to the field of psychology, his ideas have been expanded into other areas including becoming a well recognised educational theory (Thorne, 2003). To appreciate the significance of Rogers ' achievements, it is necessary to look at both his life and his work. Carl Rogers, was born, Carl Ronsom Rogers, in Illinois on the 8th of January 1902, the fourth out of six children. His family were middle-class Pentecostal Christians, with his father, Walter, being a civil engineer, wild his mother, Julia was a housewife who stayed at home to look after her family (Thorne, 2003). As a child Rogers demonstrated a high level of intelligence, he was able to read before he went to kindergarten. From an early age Rogers lived in a strict background, with ethical values learned from the family 's religious background, which is likely to have helped nurture his personal disciplined approach. As Rogers

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