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•Clients leads the way NOT therapist leads the way.
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Therapist’s Ability to establish a strong connection with clients.
- "being with" clients
- Understand clients world.
- Entering into their world.
Making assumption about
clients based on their culture background.
•American psychologist (born in 1902), was educated at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University
He (with Abraham Maslow) established humanistic approach in clinical psychology.
-Therapist’s presence.
More powerful than any technique.
-In addition to some skills such as (listing, accepting, respecting, understanding).
-"Does it fit?’"
* Therapist does not know, client knows
•Client-centered therapy is
identified primarily with technique of Reflection.
*Early Emphasis on Reflection of Feelings
*Empathy: Experiencing others feelings.
•(can I see things through her/his eyes)?
•Understand clients world as they see and feel it.
"It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried"
DO NOT ask questions!
Be Like a Mirror to clients.
•Emphasis on the therapeutic relationship
•The importance of empathy
•innovations in person-centered therapy
•Emotion-focused therapy
•Genuineness
•Acceptance
•empathy
Rogers maintained that three therapist
attributes create a growth-promoting climate:
* Genuineness
* Positive regards
* Accurate empathy
Is a counseling approach that requires the client to take an active role in his or her treatment with the therapist being non-directive and supportive.
Person (or Client) Centered Therapy is based on the basic principle that therapists should help patients find their own solutions rather than trying to impose solutions on them.
•Have the capacity to define their goals
•They will become open to experience
•Learn to trust themselves
•Develop an internal evaluation of themselves
•Have a willingness to continue growing
- Carl Rogers
- Definition of Person-centered
- Main concepts and principles
- What the goals of therapy are
- Therapeutic techniques and procedures
- Therapeutic relationship
- Limits and contributions
-Role-play
*Therapist inner experience fit with outer expressions
*Therapist are have real and honest interactions
*Therapist are not hide under their professional role
Understand client’s experience and feelings sensitively and accurately
To help client get closer to themselves
Accurate empathic understanding is the cornerstone of person-centered approach
To avoid the judgment of client’s feeling, behaviors and beliefs
The recognition of client’s rights to have their own feelings
“I will accept you as you are” NOT “I will accept you when.."
•Lack of supporting evidence (not enough research)
•Absence of techniques aimed at bringing a change for the client
•Techniques limited to reflections and empathic listening
•Difficulty of supporting clients find their own ways
•The dependency on the genuineness of the therapist, make a chance of ineffective sessions if the genuineness as a character is not applied
Sumaya Ahmed, Nora Ali, Hamda Hassan