Carl Rogers (1902-1987) was ‘the most influential psychologist in American history’ (Kirshenbaum‚ 1989:11). Since the study of personality began‚ personality theorists have offered a wide assortment of explanations about behaviour and about what constructs a person. Carl Rogers was the main originator of the ‘person centred’ approach‚ also referred to as the ‘nondirective’ or ‘client centred’ approach. This essay will offer a brief description about some of the main concepts in Carl Rogers’ person
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Personality Theorist: A Look at Carl Rogers Through his eyes‚ Carl Rogers’ theory saw people in a basic form‚ which was relatively simple. They were either healthy or good‚ or at the very least‚ they were not bad or ill. This essay will outline his contributions to the field of psychology of personality and point out some of his simple theories. I want to begin by giving you some background on Carl Ransom Rogers. He was born in Oak Park‚ Illinois on January 8‚ 1902. At an early age he demonstrated
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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
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Case Study 19 – Carl Rogers 1. How did Katharine’s self-concept differ from her ideal self before her experience with her support group? What does this imply about her mental health‚ according to Rogers’ theory? a. Katharine’s ideal self is a woman who is self-sufficient‚ an entrepreneur‚ and a mother as well as wife. Prior to attending her support group‚ Katharine’s life lacked any positive self-regard. She had been living as a ‘kept’ woman at her husband’s insistence for many years
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Behaviorism has been a major school of thought in psychology since 1913‚ when John B. Watson published an influential article. Watson argued that psychology should abandon its earlier focus on mind and mental processes and focus exclusively on overt behavior. He contended that psychology could not study mental processes in a scientific manner because they are private and not accessible to outside observation. In completely rejecting mental processes as a suitable subject for scientific study‚ Watson
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1 An Analysis of Carl Rogers’ work with Gloria: An article review by XXXXX XXXXX MSC-502: Counseling Theories and Techniques Instructor: Dr. Michael Bundy 2 “An Analysis of How Carl Rogers Enacted Client-centered Conversation with Gloria” carefully studies the recently re-analyzed and amended transcript from the classic training film “Three Approaches to Psychotherapy” for evidence that Rogers’ conversational devices utilized during this famous exchange are ripe with enactments of the core conditions
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Although a lot of compelling theories and counseling techniques were presented throughout the unit‚ I will focus my attention on the Person-Centered Approach/Therapy developed by Carl Rogers. Person-Centered Approach changed the nature of counseling‚ as well as the counselor-client relationship‚ making Rogers a true change agent in his profession. Prior to his approach‚ the therapist was perceived as the "expert" in the notion that "the therapist know best." The helper was assumed to know what was
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Sigmund Freud versus Burrhus Frederic Skinner Comparsion and contrast of their theories In the world of psychology‚ Sigmund Freud versus B.F. Skinner has been a long-standing debate. The question‚ “If one had depression‚ which would be the better therapist and why?” raises a great variety of controversies. This debate of Freud versus Skinner stems from their position and philosophy in psychology‚ psychoanalysis and behaviorism—Freud being the founder
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Person-centered theory is regarded as one of the most popular theories of counseling and therapy since its development in the 1940s. Its originator‚ Carl Rogers originally labeled it as nondirective. The theory was intended to offer a distinctive option to the behavioral and psychoanalytic theories that subjugated psychology during the period. At a later time‚ Rogers expanded the concepts of the process and renamed it client-centered to de-emphasize the nondirective nature and emphasize a full understanding
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