This presentation details information about Carl Rogers a Humanistic therapist who also influenced education.

1. Carl Rogers
Concepts
Compare/Contrast
Applications
Fallacies

2.  1902 – 1987
 Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American
Psychological Association in 1956.
 Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Psychology by the
APA in 1972
 Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with national intergroup
conflict in South Africa and Northern Ireland
 Decent family history, although rather religiously strict.
 Introverted person/Highly imaginative
 Deep openness to Change
 Faith in people affected his development of his theories
 Felt assessments at the onset of counseling would cause the client to
assume that the therapist would “fix” their problems.

3.  Counseling and Psychotherapy – 1942
 Proposed – Nondirective counseling
 Key Concepts:
 Humanism
 The person should be viewed holistically
 Each person has it within themselves to fix
themselves.
 Free-will
 Personal Responsibility

4. Rogers Freud
 Empathy  Therapist knows
 Unconditional Best
Positive Regard  Client’s knowledge
 Client Knows best is insignificant
 Reflective listening  Advice, Persuasion,
Teaching
 No-Diagnosis
 Unconscious drive
 Congruent whole
personality  Personality divided
 Focus on the  Focus on the
person not the problem, not the
problem person
 Persons needed
direct help in order
to solve their
problems
Social Work Podcast #8, 2/12/07

5. 1. A relationship exists
2. Client is a state of incongruence
3. Therapist is Congruent
4. Therapist experiences unconditional
positive regard for the client
5. Therapist experiences and attempts to
express an empathic understanding of
the client’s internal frame of reference
6. Therapist’s unconditional positive
regard, empathic understanding, and
congruence must be perceived by the
client
Seligman, Pg. 150

6. Being Real

7.  The ability for the therapist to be genuine
 No façade
 Requires self-awareness
 Deliberate self-disclosure
 Therapists need to be aware that a client’s
subjective interpretation could lead to
misinterpretation

8. Prizing, Acceptance, Trust

9.  Prizing
 Caring for and respecting the client
 Does NOT require that the therapist accept
and approve of all the client’s actions
 Therapist needs to be consistent of their
acceptance and regard of the person

10. Putting yourself in the client’s shoes

11.  Grasping the subjective words of the client
 Reflection of feeling
 NOT Sympathy

12.  Can I be real? – Real, Congruence,
Transparency
 Prizing/Caring for this person – “if I dislike
this person I find it important that express it”
 Empathy – Can I see things through “her”
eyes?
 http://youtu.be/HarEcd4bt-s

13. http://youtu.be/HarEcd4bt-s

14. Emotion-Focused Therapy

15.  Emotions as crucial to experience
 Goal-setting
 Talk about an event – “I feel, about,
because…”
 Emotion processing activities
 Homework
 Motivational Interviewing
 Reflective Listening

16. It’s Complicated – Universal Pictures - 2009

18. 1. Identify and describe a situation where you
felt that someone wronged you and how
that made you feel.
2. Is this situation repeated in other aspects in
your life?
3. What other emotions do you feel about
this. Does this situation trigger other
memories or emotions?
4. How can you turn this around and see this
from a different perspective? What are the
truths about this situation?

20.  Assumption of “Sufficient for Change” has
not been proven by research.
 Being Genuine – Beginning clinicians get
stuck “faking” it.

21. What Person-Centered Therapy means to the world of Psychology
 Carl Rogers coined a philosophy that is in
predominant use today.
 This therapeutic approach encourages the client to
find their own solutions by allowing them the ability
to see themselves, through therapist acceptance of
them and reflective listening.
 The assumption of “innate good” is still in debate
as the “nature verses nurture” aspects of
personality are still in dispute.