Person Centered Therapy

Person Centered Therapy

Introduction

The main differences between humanistic counselors and other therapists are that they relate to the therapy as "clients" and not "patients." That is because they see the therapist and client as equal partners and not as an expert in patient care. Unlike other treatments, the client is responsible for improving their lives, and not a doctor. This is a deliberate change in psychoanalysis and behavior therapy for the patient is diagnosed and treated by a doctor. Instead, the client is conscious and rational to decide for themselves what is wrong and what to do. Instead of releasing a past client as psychodynamics therapists aim of making Rogerian's hopes of helping clients achieve personal growth and ultimately self-realization.

History of Person-Centered Theory

Carl Rogers was one of the most prominent American psychologists of his generation. He had the human nature an unusual design from which he developed an Original psychotherapy who gave a personal vision of education.

In the Person-Centered Therapy, the therapist, through these three attitudes, creates the framework for the person to understand themselves better, regain self-confidence and gain self-esteem essential to their welfare (Arnett and Arneson, 1999). The person-centered therapy allows the client to enter into a consciousness-making process of real experience and restructuring of the self, through the establishment of a strong therapeutic alliance with the therapist and nuanced hear the deeper meanings of their experience. C. Rogers (1902-1987) and his colleagues developed the core developers of the approach, based on their clinical experience and based on the scientific method. Considered in Humanistic Psychology or Third Way, shares her positive and dynamic conception of the person (Cissna, 2002) gives primacy subjective nature of its existence, and so essentially defending human values as freedom, responsibility and conscience as the basis for growth personal and therapeutic change. Two basic assumptions are:

Human beings have an inherent tendency toward growth.

Establishing the relationship between therapist and client is crucial in the therapeutic process.

In the client-centered therapy, the goal is achieved by the person to reconnect with their organic nature, his true self, for this, the therapist through the attitude of empathy, unconditional acceptance and consistency (expressed through art) provides a psychological security relationship with the client, which will allow the gradual entry into their inner world, progress towards making the experience of consciousness denied, the encounter with new meanings of their experience and progress towards the gradual process of reorganization of his ego (Cissna and Anderson, 2005). The approach developed by Carl Rogers is one of our benchmarks in our practice of coaching. The main foundations of what he calls the person-centered approach: Carl Rogers observed and shown throughout his life, the importance of the relation in its accompaniments and in any relationship where personal development is at stake as the stock of skills or coaching. Indeed, it was found that a certain quality of relationship allowed the person to more easily access its own resources which are considerable.

Theoretical Beliefs

Mental Illness

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