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Person-Centered Therapy/Theory: Adibah Aisyah Ain Dalila So'ima Kamila

Person-centered therapy was developed by Carl Rogers in 1942 and focuses on the quality of the relationship between the client and therapist. The therapist acts as a non-judgmental listener to help clients achieve personal growth and self-actualization without focusing on causes of problems or applying specific techniques. The therapy operates according to three principles - congruence, unconditional positive regard, and empathetic understanding - to help clients fully understand their experiences in a supportive environment.

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Person-Centered Therapy/Theory: Adibah Aisyah Ain Dalila So'ima Kamila

Person-centered therapy was developed by Carl Rogers in 1942 and focuses on the quality of the relationship between the client and therapist. The therapist acts as a non-judgmental listener to help clients achieve personal growth and self-actualization without focusing on causes of problems or applying specific techniques. The therapy operates according to three principles - congruence, unconditional positive regard, and empathetic understanding - to help clients fully understand their experiences in a supportive environment.

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Person-Centered

Therapy/Theory
Adibah Aisyah
Ain Dalila
Soima Kamila

Client-centered or person-centered
therapy was developed by Carl Rogers in
1942.
Rogers emphasised the importance of the
quality of the relationship between the
client and the therapist.
The therapist is more of a friend or
counselor who listens and encourages on
an equal level.
Help clients to achieve personal growth
and eventually to self-actualize.

Not concerned with finding out the


causes of the problem and finding
the best solution possible.
Does not have any specific
techniques which are applied in
every situation.

quality of the
relationship
between the
client and the
therapist

to help a
person
become
more of a
fully
functioning
person

Purpos
es

greater
openness
to
experienc
e

congruent
three basic
principles

uncondition
al positive
regard
uncondition
al positive
regard

Person-centered therapy operates according to


three basic principles that reflect the
attitude of the therapist to the client:
1. The therapist iscongruentwith the client.
2. The therapist provides the client
withunconditional positive regard.
3. The therapist
showsempatheticunderstanding to the
client.

Congruence in Counseling
Congruence is the most important attribute
in counseling.
What the therapist is experiencing internally
must be consistent with the message the
therapist is communicating to the client
externally.
Allow the therapist to be aware of and
honest about the kinds of feelings the client
is eliciting.
Allow the client to experience them as they
really are.

Unconditional Positive Regard


Refers to the therapist's deep and
genuine caring for the client.
The
The therapist needs an attitude of
I'll accept you as you are.
The person-centered counselor
should always maintain a positive
attitude to the client, even when
disgusted by the client's actions.

Empathy
The ability to understand what the client is
feeling.
Refers to the therapist's ability to
understand sensitively and accurately the
client's experience and feelings in the
here-and-now..
Follow precisely what the client is feeling
and to communicate to them that the
therapist understands what they are
feeling.

In the words of Rogers (1975), accurate empathic


understanding is as follows:
"If I am truly open to the way life is experienced by
another person...
if I can take his or her world into mine, then I risk seeing
life in his or her way...and of being changed myself, and
we all resist change.
Since we all resist change, we tend to view the other
person's world only in our terms, not in his or hers.
Then we analyze and evaluate it. We do not understand
their world. But, when the therapist does understand how
it truly feels to be in another person's world, without
wanting or trying to analyze or judge it, then the therapist
and the client can truly blossom and grow in that climate.

View of human
nature
Beliefs that humans are basically good and
trustworthy
Humans have potential to develop in term of
emotional and intellectual

Humans have dignity and self-esteem.

Humans need communication and interaction with


others
Humans are given the opportunity to choose how
they want to live.

Humans have tendency towards self-actualisation

Individual
has
conditions
that the
considerati
on is based
on the
evaluation
of others.

Influenced
through the
interaction
between self
and
surrounding/
environment

Developme
nt of
personality
Individual
requires selfesteem,
acknowledge
ment/
recognition
and respect

Influenced
through self
perception
towards
reality

Why problems occurred?


Children who
experienced
sexual or
physical
abuse

the loss of
a family
member

neglect

medical

traumatic
experienc
e

physical
injury

Active and
passive
listening
General or
open leads
that help
client selfexploration

Reflection
of thoughts
and
feelings

Counselli
ng
Method
Confrontati
on of
contradictio
n

Clarification

Summarisat
ion

Technique/Strategy
The emphasis of client centered counselling is not on
techniques but on the ability of the counsellor to
establish a relationship with the client, therefore the
counsellor should :
Be a patient and an expert listener
Accept each individual by offering an atmosphere of
unconditional positive regards and emphatic
understanding.
Develop insight by encouraging free expression and
then reflecting this feeling.
Counsellor is to be aware of body language and what
they are saying
Focus on the current state of the individual

Simulation

Conclusion
Theperson-centered
counselorplaces so much emphasis
on genuineness and on being led
by the client, they do not place the
same emphasis on boundaries of
time and technique.

The person-centered counselor has a


very positive and optimistic view of
human nature.
Person-centered concepts are
applicable to a wide variety of
helping situation.

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