Person Centered Therapy
Person-Centered Therapy
Carl Rogers developed Person-Centered Therapy (PCT) in the 1940s (Rogers & Maslow, 2008). PCT can be used with individuals, group settings, or within family therapy. PCT is a way of supporting and working with people within a mind frame of an humanistic approach. The process behind PCT involves active listening, thinking together, sharing ideas between practitioner and client, and the therapist being nondirective and supportive within PCT sessions. PCT puts the client at the center of the care process they receive. PCT sets a framework for them to plan and set directives they are needing within a therapeutic setting. The concept of a PCT is that the client is the expert on themselves. The therapist within PCT is just …show more content…
The downsides are that person-centered therapy assumes the ability of the client to make positive assumptions and choices. As it is also client led, it also does not adhere to a particular technique in practice. PCT may prove problematic with clients who have deeper psychological issues that inhibit their ability to deal with reality in a rational manner. Thus, the client has to be consciously aware of what is occurring within PCT so benefits can be obtained. One of the most basic thoughts that comes to mind is that not all clients are able to find their own answers. If this is happening with the client a therapist might step in and take a more active role within a theoretical process. When and if this takes place, a new approach happens and a different therapeutic processes can be implemented that more suits the client's …show more content…
Even though I'm not a licensed counselor I have worked in setting where PCT was highly effective. As per say, I use to work in a homeless shelter and use PCT to help people I worked with obtain goals in life. PCT leans on self-actualization and this a very powerful tool. I would pull the best out of the person.I would reflect back to them they do have skill within them to make it past this time in the shelter. Also within PCT reflective listening and active listing showed the people I worked with that I really did care. I use this in a way that brought around empathy to the participants within the homeless shelter. From what I seen working in that environment is that participants are just wanting to looked as
Carl Rogers developed Person-Centered Therapy (PCT) in the 1940s (Rogers & Maslow, 2008). PCT can be used with individuals, group settings, or within family therapy. PCT is a way of supporting and working with people within a mind frame of an humanistic approach. The process behind PCT involves active listening, thinking together, sharing ideas between practitioner and client, and the therapist being nondirective and supportive within PCT sessions. PCT puts the client at the center of the care process they receive. PCT sets a framework for them to plan and set directives they are needing within a therapeutic setting. The concept of a PCT is that the client is the expert on themselves. The therapist within PCT is just …show more content…
The downsides are that person-centered therapy assumes the ability of the client to make positive assumptions and choices. As it is also client led, it also does not adhere to a particular technique in practice. PCT may prove problematic with clients who have deeper psychological issues that inhibit their ability to deal with reality in a rational manner. Thus, the client has to be consciously aware of what is occurring within PCT so benefits can be obtained. One of the most basic thoughts that comes to mind is that not all clients are able to find their own answers. If this is happening with the client a therapist might step in and take a more active role within a theoretical process. When and if this takes place, a new approach happens and a different therapeutic processes can be implemented that more suits the client's …show more content…
Even though I'm not a licensed counselor I have worked in setting where PCT was highly effective. As per say, I use to work in a homeless shelter and use PCT to help people I worked with obtain goals in life. PCT leans on self-actualization and this a very powerful tool. I would pull the best out of the person.I would reflect back to them they do have skill within them to make it past this time in the shelter. Also within PCT reflective listening and active listing showed the people I worked with that I really did care. I use this in a way that brought around empathy to the participants within the homeless shelter. From what I seen working in that environment is that participants are just wanting to looked as