Person-Centered Reflection Paper According to Gerald Corey‚ in the book‚ Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy” person-centered therapy has similar concepts and values as existential therapy. Person-centered therapy was founded on the principles that humans’ are primarily trustworthy and are capable of self-actualization. Carl Rogers believed that individuals are capable of “Congruent (genuineness‚ or realness)‚ unconditional primary regard (acceptance and caring)‚ and accurate empathic
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Rogers cultivated the client-centered therapy‚ also known as the person-centered therapy‚ which was designed for clients to talk about their issues. He thought this therapy would be different because the therapist is non-directive unlike other therapists. The therapist’s primary goal was to be genuine‚ supportive‚ and understanding rather using tactics to justify the actions of the patients‚ such as giving their insight on the patients’ situations. Also Rogers used the word “clients” instead of “patients”
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My clinical experience with the community mental health population shaped and reinforced my theoretical orientation. Through completing staffings‚ intake assessments‚ group and individual therapy‚ I observed one primary theme that resonated with Person-Centered Therapy (PCT). Specifically‚ many of these individuals lacked support‚ as they were often homeless‚ their family’s were difficult to contact‚ their case managers were often unavailable‚ and obtaining and transportation to get to their clinics
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CARL ROGERS AND PERSON CENTERED THERAPY Carl Rogers Carl Ransome Rogers‚ the most influential American psychologist of the 20th century was born on the 8th January 1902‚ in Oak Illinois‚ a suburb of Chicago. He was the fourth child out of the six children. His father Walter A. Rogers was a civil engineer and his mother Julia M. Cushing was a housewife and a
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Empathy and Counseling For this paper I will be discussing the steps of empathy and what it means to be empathetic to patients and people. I watched a short video by Carl Rogers called “Person Centered Therapy” in this video there was a lot of incite as to how a professional is supposed to interact not only to his/her patients but to the people around them. I will be reviewing a few peer reviewed articles regarding empathy and be discussing my thoughts on them‚ in addition to this I took
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Client-centered theory is not one built off of beautiful techniques and elaborate goals. It is a theory simply based on a relationship between a client and a therapist. The therapist has an unconditional positive regard for client. Carl Rogers is the mastermind behind client-centered therapy. Client-centered approach is not for every counselor. It is an attitudinal style of counseling. The counselor has to learn that the client is not defined by their personality‚ but is a person in the process of
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Running Head: Compare and Contrast Paper Compare and Contrast: Psychoanalytic and Person-Centered Therapies Leslie A. White Central Missouri State University ` The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the differences and similarities associated with Carl Roger’s Client-centered theory and Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytic theory. The focus of the comparisons will fall into the three main topic areas: that of optimal personality development‚ that of the nature of
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APPLICATION OF THEORIES Regarding the group assignment‚ we execute the helping session between student who is Felisia‚ as helpee and helper‚ Lim Zhi Yi‚ as helper at University Malaysia Sarawak. From the conversation between them‚ we applied two types of theories which are Person Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behaviour Theory. Person Centered Therapy The Person-Centered Approach created from the work of the analyst Dr. Carl Rogers (1902 – 1987). Amid that time (1940s – 1960s)‚ he propelled a way
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Psychoanalytic therapy The Basic Philosophies Human beings are basically determined by psychic energy and by early experiences. Unconscious motives and conflicts are cen-tral in present behavior. Irrational forces are strong; the person is driven by sexual and aggressive impulses. Early development is of critical importance because later personality problems have their roots in repressed childhood conflicts. Adlerian therapy Humans are motivated by social interest‚ by striving toward goals‚
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THERAPIES AND TREATMENTS Due to the harmful effects created by the traumatic experience of being bullied some victims have a hard time recovering from the said situation. They are greatly affected not only socially but mentally‚ emotionally and personally as well. Some even have the psychotic tendency of retreating to their personal haven because of the fear that they will again be experiencing the traumatic experience. Mostly these victims are so affected that their self-esteem suffers great damage
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