文档介绍：Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy
Psych422
Chapter7: Person-centered Therapy
Questions?
What key concepts do you know in terms of person-center therapy?
Do you believe most clients have the capacity to understand and resolve their own problems without directive intervention by the therapist? Why or why not?
Person-Centered Therapy (A reaction against the directive and psychoanalytic approaches)
Challenges:
The assumption that “the counselor knows best”
The validity of advice, suggestion, persuasion, teaching, diagnosis, and interpretation
The belief that clients cannot understand and resolve their own problems without direct help
The focus on problems over persons
Person-Centered Therapy
Emphasizes:
Therapy as a journey shared by two people
The person’s innate striving for self-actualization
The personal characteristics of the therapist and the quality of the therapeutic relationship
The counselor’s creation of a permissive, “growth promoting” climate
People are capable of self-directed growth if involved in a therapeutic relationship
Six Conditions (necessary and sufficient for personality changes to occur)
1. Two persons are in psychological contact
2. The first, the client, is experiencing incongruency
3. The second person, the therapist, is congruent or integrated in the relationship
4. The therapist experiences unconditional positive regard or real caring for the client
5. The therapist experiences empathy for the client’s internal frame of reference and endeavors municate this to the client
6. munication to the client is, to a minimal degree, achieved
View of Human Nature
Person as innately striving toward ing fully functioning.
Therapist’s attitudes and belief in the inner resources of the clients
Client self-healing capacities
Clients as primary change agent
Clients actualize their potential for growth, spontaneity, and inner-directedness
Therapeutic Goals
helping a person e a fully functioning person
Clients have the capa