- -focus on conscious material in the present
-become aware of feelings as they happen instead of gaining insight on the childhood origin of their feelings
-client takes responsiblity for feelings and actions
-promote growth and fulfillment rather than j - characteristics of Humanistic therapy
- 1) client and therapist must be in psychological contact(have to matter to one another)
2)The client must be in a state of incongruence(anxiety)
3)the therapist must be congruent w/ the client
4)the therapist must provide the client w/ unconditional po - The 6 conditions for Effective Therapy
*therapy is designed to eliminate incongruity b/t experience and the self
An effective therapist displays:
*Uncond. Pos. regard
*Genuiness (being honest and real w/ the client)
*Empathy (sympathetic & caring understanding)-->
~Active Listening(reflection)
~Advanced Accurate Empathy - a person who rejects hypocrisy , respect nature and other people, and resists the attempt to control his/her thoughts or behavior externally
- Person of tomorrow
- acts on the principles of learning listed (on pg 456), and thereby treats each student as a unique person with feelings of his/her own rather than as an object to be taught something
- facilitator of education
*Rogers thought our educational system was in poor shape.
*teach with unconditional positive regard - All people live in a subjective world, which can be known, in any complete sense, only to themselves. It is this, rather than the physical world, that determines people\'s behavior
- phenomenological reality
(how people interpret things is, for them, the only reality) - all that is going on w/in the organism\'s envi at any given moment that is potentially available to awareness
- experience
- allowing a child to experience positive regard no matter what they do. Parents should make a clear distinction b/t the behaviors that the child displays that they dislike, and the child them self. The child should always be loved, even though some of his
- Unconditional positive regard
Say to the child:
\"we love you deeply as you are, but what you\'re doing is upsetting and therefore we would be happier if you would stop\" - allows one to reflect on him/ herself as a distinct object of which he/she is aware. It is a major manifestation of the Actualizing tendency
- Emergence of the SELF
- An experience is distorted or denied this because it is contrary to the self structure
- Symbolization
- close relationship with individuals other than one\'s spouse
- satellite relationships
*marriages fail b/c its based on outdated assumptions
*for it to work, marriage has to be viewed as a dynamic and satisfying relationship to both partners - consists of editing experiences, using the mechanisms of Denial and Distortion, to keep them in accordance w/ the self structure
- Defense
- experienced when a person Subceives (detection of an experience before it enters full awareness) an experience as being incompatible w/ their self structure and its introjected conditions of worth
- Anxiety
- failure to use their organismic valuing process as a means of determining if their experiences are in accordance w/ their actualizing tendency
- Incongruency
(usually people will use others\' *Introjected Values* to evaluate their own experience. This is where conditions of worth have replaced their organismic valuing process as the frame of reference for evaluating their experiences - method Rogers used to determine how a client\'s self-image changed as a function of therapy
- Q-sort technique
- need to receive warmth, love, sympathy, care, respect and acceptance from relevant people in one\'s life
- Need for positive Regard
- one of the chief characteristics of a Fully functioning person
- openness to experience
- person whose locus of evaluation is his/ her own organismic valuing process rather than internalized conditions of worth
- Fully functioning person
- statements chosen by a client as best describing the person he/she actually is at the moment
- Self-sort
- statements chosen by a client as best describing the person he/she would most like to be
- Ideal-sort
- the driving force in everyone\'s life, causes the person to become more differentiated (complex), more independent, and more socially responsible. Its an innate need to survive and to grow and enhance one\'s self.
- Actualizing tendency
*Rogers\' view of human nature is opposite of Freud\'s - The need a person develops to feel positively about him/herself
- need for positive self-regard
- These specify circumstances under which children will receive positive regard
- conditions of worth
*through repeated experience w/ these conditions, kids internalize them & make them a part of their self structure. Once intrenalized, they become a conscience, guiding the kid\'s behavior even when the parents aren\'t present - using the Actualizing Tendency as a frame of reference for evaluating one\'s experiences. It creates a feedback system that allows the organism to coordinate its experiences w/ its tendency towards self-actualization
- Organismic Valuing Process
*see this clearly in infants and kids before the age of 2 years old. One moment, the infant is hungry & values food; once they are satisfied, they\'re disgusted w/ it. They completely trust their feelings.
- when potential experiences become SYMBOLIZED (Symbolization of Experience) they enter this
- awareness
*after entering awareness, the expereinces become part of the person\'s Phenomenological Field
