Lecture notes
Person-Centred Therapy
- Module
- PS7011
- Institution
- Kingston University
Lecture notes of 6 pages for the course PS7011 at Kingston University (Summary - PS7011)
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Person-Centred Therapy:Monday, 14 January 2019 10:00
Definition:
- Places responsibility for the treatment on the client.
- Assumption: the client is the expert in their own life. The client knows best- they
has this deep insight. The client knows what can be done and what is the right w
Historical background:
- Part of Humanistic Psychology.
- Emerged in mid 20th century as a reaction to previous ways of looking at human
Humanistic Psychology:
- Sees humans as striving for choice, values and purpose.
- Idea that humanistic therapies need to help the client become self aware and wha
want to go in life.
- Holistic stance: there's something about human experience that cannot be broken
Humanistic therapy:
- Umbrella term.
- Comprises various therapeutic approaches.
Carl Rogers (1902-1987):
- Founding father of person-centred therapy.
- Teased by family- didn’t open up about feelings.
- Developed within a segregated lifestyle.
- Went to china aged 20: started to see himself as a person and independent.
- Started working with children and worked on his first book 'The Clinical Treatm
- Made shift from diagnosis to listening. This has impacted clinical and counsellin
- Introduced the word 'client' in therapy.
- Didn't believe in diagnosing: doesn't like concept of labelling.
Theoretical Concepts:
Person-Centred Therapy:
Main elements ideas:
- Self-actualisation.
- Self concept.
- Conditions of worth.
- Organismic valuing process.
- Locus of evaluation.
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