Client-Centered Therapy

Carl Rogers was a humanistic psychotherapist who developed the concept of client-centered psychotherapy. He was a brilliant and remarkable person who uses a scientific method of integrating client-centered into psychotherapy. His client-centered approached was to treat the client with respect, have unconditional acceptance and empathic understanding. Also, his theory was to restore people to full function along with maintaining and enhancing themselves. However, it is extraordinary how a therapist can listen to the client without utterance and still contribute to improving the individual emotional needs.
Client –centered therapy is different from other forms of therapy. It is known as a person-centered and non-directive counseling approach that involves helping the client to use their possible resources to solve problems. Carl Rogers believed in creating an environment of acceptance, trust, and empathetic understanding that will make the sessions effective
so, the client will feel comfortable and valued. This will allow the client to empathize and want to resolve their issues along with starting to have a confident outlook on life. Rogers also believed in self- healing and personal growth, which leads to the ability to realize or reach one’s full potential. According to Rogers, for the individual to accomplish self-realization alongside proceeding with self-change, they must be in a state of congruence. The growth of congruence is dependent on unconditional positive regard. For instance, the therapist has to put their personal thoughts and opinions aside to show overall acceptance for the client to see themselves as they are regardless of wrong doing and mistakes. Rogers felt Instead of opposing to communicating to the client what wasn't right with them, the psychotherapist should be a good listener, reflects back on what the client says and not placing no labels or names on the client situation.
Rogers depicts an individual who is actualizing, is a fully function individual. Unconditional positive regard also plays a major role in becoming a fully function person. The fully function person has some essential characteristics. Being open to others, the ability to trust one's experiences, and form values based on those experiences can help the client stay focused on their emotions and embrace their need to grow as an individual. Also, another characteristic of a fully function person is when the individual is happy and pleased with life along with being able to look for new experiences and challenges.
According to Carl Rogers, the importance of self-concept plays a significant role in client-centered therapy.
He characterized self-concept as a well thought-out understanding of beliefs and opinions regarding how the individual see themselves and interface with their general surroundings. The self-concept includes three components. Self-worth, self-image, and ideal self. Self- worth is how an individual thinks or feel about themselves. Rogers believed feelings of self-worth were developed in early youth and were shaped by the communication of the child’s parents. Also, Self-image is how an individual see themselves. Self-image influences people’s perception on what a person thinks feels and behaves in the world. It also affects one’s body image and inner personality. Rogers indicated ideal self is who the individual would like to be and consists of objectives, aspirations in life and changes. The closer the relationship of how an individual acts, and how we want to be as a person, the higher our self-worth
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