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Carl Rogers Founding Fathers Of Psychotherapy

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Carl Rogers (1902- 1987) was an American Psychologist who is considered to be one of founding fathers of psychotherapy. He is most noted for his client-centered (humanistic) approach to therapy. This type of therapy is just that – centered around the person. The therapist will motivate and guide the client through therapy by listening and then coaching rather than asking all the questions. The topics that are discussed will depend on what the client wants to talk about rather than the therapist. It has been said that in order for a person to grow, they need an environment that will provide them with openness, acceptance, and empathy (simplypsychology.org). According to Rogers, without this, healthy relationships will not happen. Depending
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Rogers believed in self-actualization in others words he though humans were born with a desire to be the best they can. He also believed an individuals were “fully functioning”. In other words, a person who was “fully functioning’ would not be afraid to make decisions, be open

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Which gave the client confidence to open up to Dr. Rogers. Then he could support the client while he talked through what happened and help him realize that he needed to feel that anger. His body language was inviting and open, which made a safe environment for him to talk about everything he was afraid to share. Dr. Carl

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Jamison focuses on client centered therapy, she as well as Carl Rogers think that people are free to make choices and control their destinies, despite the burdens of the past (Ratus, 2012, 2014). These two psychologists have a lot in common. Jamison helps people make the correct choices by them reading her books and explaining how important it is to take their medications and not get off of them, in her books she explains what a disaster it will be if someone does come off their medications. On the other hand, Carl Rogers thinks that people are free to make their own choices and controlling their destinies. I see through her books she tries to follow that.

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Carl Rogers said, in his introduction to Person-Centered therapy, on the first of the infamous Gloria Tapes, 1965, “...perhaps, if she senses realness in me, she will be able to be a little more real within herself.” The term get real, popular in the sixties is about being realistic through understanding or acquiring a deeper insight into what is actually going on. Rogers, believed that the client could “get real” about their problems, with minimal help from the therapist, and once “real” could see clear and positive paths toward behavior modification. Humans, according to Rogers have an organismic need to actualize into happy adult beings, but cultural pressures, that create conditional circumstances for success, leave the client unhappy or stuck when the cultural

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The founder of client centred therapy is considered to be Carl Rogers. “Humanistic” therapies, are the new and improved therapies, many psychologists have agreed to the development, Carl Rogers lead the increase of therapy with his approach. He used client centred therapy to show people that they have power and motivation to help themselves. Carl Rogers believed that for a person to “grow” and that they need to be provided with genuineness (openness and self-disclosure), being seen with unconditional positive regard (acceptance) and they want to be shown that they are being listened to and understood which is empathy. One of Carl Rogers most important contributions was when self actualisation took place, and he believed that every person could

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Growth can come in many forms and can often define a relationship. For example, growth of intimacy and trust makes for a functional relationship, however, growth of resentment can prove to be destructive for a relationship. A type of growth that people hardly focus on is the way a person grows emotionally or psychologically in a relationship. Personal growth is essential as ever relationship comes with a lesson to be learnt. The prescribed texts that I will be analysing are Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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Identifying Information In the video of the session, Carl Rogers is conducting a therapy session with a woman named, Gloria. Gloria is a medium framed female that appears to be in her mid to late thirties. She is recently divorced and is a single parent to two young children, seemingly in the pre-adolescent years or younger. The counselor, Carl Rogers, appears to be mild-mannered, in his early fifties, male, with a calming voice.

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Rogers put emphasis on listening, understanding and the client finding their own solution rather than the therapist giving it to them. Rogers was able to revolutionised the relationship between the therapist and the client with the person centred approach. The person centred approach is the dominant approach in America today as it is able to be applied to education, psychotherapy and business

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Person-centered therapy developed in the 1930’s by psychologist Dr Carl Rogers (1902-1987), person-centered therapy divided from the formal role of the therapist highlighted in psychoanalysis. Carl Rogers emphasised the humanistic perspective as well as ensuring therapeutic relationships with clients promote self-esteem, authenticity and actualisation in their life, and help them to use their strengths (Seligman, 2006). He propelled a way to deal with psychotherapy and guiding that, at the time (1940s – 1960s), was considered greatly radical if not progressive. In the late 1960s, person-centered therapy got to be connected with the human potential development.

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This week I am choosing to highlight a Person-Centered Therapy Group as a theoretic approach to counseling. Carl Rogers is said to have applied particular approach to group therapy beginning in the 1960s. His technique, however, of this nondirective counseling, were birthed in the early 1940s, with Rogers who was known as a courageous pioneer in the particular approach. In this approach, Rogers placed emphasis on the therapist’s realness and empathy, the relationship between client and therapist was paramount, as opposed to previous types of therapeutic approaches, that put greater emphasis on giving advice, diagnosis, teaching and interpretations. (Corey, 2016, p. 257) Personally, I see this type of approach in therapy helpful, by creating

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Also, the provision of rationale to encourage the reflection of personal as a tool to solve problems. The theory, however, suggest that person centred counselling is a common treatment of distressing (London Churchill College, 2018). Therefore, provision can be made for Thomas in getting person-centred counselling so he is able to think different and communicate with others. Furthermore, the cornerstone of the humanistic approach to learning include being open and spontaneous, recognise the significance of emotion and feelings respecting the rights of individuals to make their own choices and appreciating the potential for human creativity within each person (Bastable, 2006, pg. 55). However, Carl Rogers argued that individuals mostly need unconditional positive self-regard which is the feeling of love without any string attached (Bastable, 2006).

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