Counselling provides the opportunity for a person to express their thoughts and feelings in an environment that is different from their daily life. There may be a need to engage in a conversation where a person can receive feedback and a different perspective on the issues that they are dealing with in a non-judgemental and safe environment‚ McLeod (2007). In a recent counselling session‚ where I was the counsellor‚ I was invited to share the feelings and experience of my client who had some unpleasant
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5th November 2013 Essay 1: ‘Evaluate the claim that Person–Centred Therapy offers the therapist all that he/she will need to treat clients’. In this essay I will look at the benefits and the disadvantages of person-centred therapy and consider whether it provides sufficient tools for the therapist to be effective in the treatment of the client. Looking at the underlying theory (self-actualisation‚ organismic self‚ conditions of worth etc)‚ and the originators of it‚ namely Abraham Maslow and
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Explore the Person Centred approach in relation to counselling practice The roots of the Person Centred approach‚ now considered a founding work in the Humanistic school of psychotherapies‚ began formally with Carl Rogers in the 1950’s. Dealing in the ’here and now’ and not on the childhood origins of the client’s problems‚ basic assumptions of the Person Centred approach state that clients are essentially trustworthy; that they have a vast potential for understanding themselves and resolving
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Person-Centred Therapy Person-centred therapy (also referred to as Rogerian Psychology) is the psychological method founded by the humanistic psychologist Carl Rogers. It is centred on the idea that the individual has enormous potential for understanding themselves and therefore is best placed in the resolving of their own issues without any direct interjections from the therapist. Hence the therapy revolves around the individual as the promoter and architect of their own self change
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“The Person-Centred Therapy approach has its limitations when it comes to treating a gambling addiction.” Discuss. In this assignment I am going to discuss what constitutes addictive behaviour in the context of therapeutic work. An evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of Person-Centred Therapy (PCT) will be used to highlight the limitations of this mode of therapy when used for clients with a gambling addiction. Other models of therapy will also be explored in order to ascertain whether
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space for a client could be described as a place or space in which a client feels secure and free to express him/herself in a real‚ true and open way. This could mean a number of things to different clients‚ it is very individual. What makes a person feel safe? The list could include some or all of the following; Not feeling judged or criticised by the counsellor or that the counsellor is likely to not accept you if you share something ‘bad’ Feeling that the counsellor accurately
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Person-centred thinking is a set of values‚ skills and tools used in Person Centred Planning and in the personalisation of services used by people who need supports provided by social or health care. Person-centred thinking is described by the UK Department of Health as "the foundation for person centred planning"[1] The British Institute of Learning Disabilities advocates Person centred thinking suggesting that such tools "can be really helpful in assisting the process of getting to know a
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Describe person centred counselling. Carl Rogers was an influential American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach to psychology. Carl Rogers was found to be the sixth most eminent psychologist of the 20th century and second amoung clinicians‚ only to Sigmund Freud. The person centred approach was his own unique approach to understanding personality and human relatinships. This found wide application in various domains such as psychotherapy and
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The field of counselling contains many theories‚ sometimes very different from each other. There are‚ however‚ three major theoretical approaches: “humanistic”‚ “psychodynamic” and “cognitive behavioural” and within each of these approaches there are discrete models‚ for example‚ “person centred” and “transpersonal”. This diversity of counselling theories and approaches is really valuable and important. Why? Because the different theories relate to different ways of thinking about how people develop
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Name: Lucy Banner Student Number: 1201133 Award: Adult Nursing Cohort Number: 213 Personal Tutor: Jane Banks Module code: 4NH007 Title of Assignment: Exploring Patient Centred Care from Nursing Perspective Date of Submission: Named Marker: Robert Preece Number of words: This assessment is my own work‚ which not been completed in collusion with other student’s and complies with University of Wolverhampton plagiarism policy. On a female only respiratory ward in the West
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