Carl Rogers took a completely different approach to personality than that of other theorist in that he felt a patient should be centered on their own understanding of themselves rather than the interpretation of the theorist and also avoiding what internal mechanisms might possibly be causing their behavior (Feist, J., Feist,G., & Roberts, T., 2013). He believed that the reason a person behaves in a particular way is due to the subjective opinion of themselves and their situations (Bozarth, J. 2012). Rogers saw himself more as a therapist or a helper of a person rather than a theorist. (Feist, J., Feist,G., & Roberts, T., 2013). Unlike other personality theorist, Carl Rogers preferred a therapeutically optimistic approach. Other personality …show more content…
(Zucconi, 2011). Rogers departed from viewing clients as a “patient” to avoid putting the stigma of a label on them or classifying them. Rogers was of the opinion that such terms or labels influenced a person’s identity and their behaviors causing them to feel the need to live up to the classification that was put on them. (Zucconi, 2011). Rogers was the first therapist to develop a complete therapeutic paradigm that was centered on the entirety or whole person and their potentialities. (Zucconi, …show more content…
The beauty of being His creation is that we are all made unique and with different skills. It is important to learn about personality because God commands us to love one another, bear each other’s burdens and to serve others. Man was created to live in relationship with one another. This is spoken of in the two Great Commandments God gives in Mark 12:30-31” And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these” (KJV). Learning about personality benefits us in carrying out these commandments. This aligns closely to Alfred Adler’s view that individuals are in need of their social ties and are connected through their connectedness (La Voy, S, Brand, S., Matthew J. L. McFadden, R., 2013). As stated in the introduction of the text, There is no one approach that is acceptable to all personality theorists (Feist, J., Feist,G., & Roberts, T., 2013). Each of theorists spoken of in this text has made great contributions to the area of psychotherapy. Although not all of their assumptions can be integrated into a biblical counseling model, there are some assumptions the approaches that can be used with a biblical