Chapter 10 - Carl Rogers

Client-centered Therapy

Carl Rogers is best known as the founder of

Client-centered therapy

The term "_________" is used to refer to Rogerian personality theory.

Person-centered

According to Carl Rogers, the term _____ refers to a tendency for all matter, both organic and inorganic, to evolve from simpler to more complex forms.

Formative tendency

According to Carl Rogers, the _____ refers to the tendency within all humans to move toward completion or fulfillment of potentials.

Actualizing tendency

Carl Rogers believed that _____ is a subset of the actualization tendency and is therefore not synonymous with it.

Self-actualization

Like many personality theorists, Carl Rogers built his theory on the scaffold provided by _____.

Experiences as a therapist

According to Carl Rogers, the __________ is defined as one's view of self as one wishes to be.

Ideal self

In the early years, Carl Rogers’ approach was known as _____.

Nondirective

Carl Rogers defined _____ as the symbolic representation of some portion of an individual's experience.

Awareness

In describing a formative tendency, Carl Rogers believed that for the entire universe a _____, rather than a disintegrative one, is in operation.

Creative process

Accurately symbolized awareness corresponds to experiences that are both non-threatening and consistent with the existing self-concept.

Distorted awareness corresponds to experiences reshaped so they can be assimilated into the existing self-concept.

According to Carl Rogers, a second basic assumption of the person-centered theory is the _____.

Actualizing tendency

According to Carl Rogers, a person develops a need to be loved, liked, or accepted by another person that can be referred to as _____.

Positive regard

According to Carl Rogers, _____ is the tendency to actualize the self as perceived in awareness.

Self-actualization

According to Carl Rogers, _____ become the criterion by which people accept or reject their experiences.

Conditions of worth

According to Carl Rogers, the second subsystem of the self is the _____.

Ideal self

According to Carl Rogers, _____ exists when a person's organismic experiences are matched by an awareness of them and by an ability and willingness to openly express these feelings.

Congruence

According to Carl Rogers, without _____ the self-concept and the ideal self would not exist.

Awareness

According to Carl Rogers, which of the following stages of therapeutic change can occur outside the therapeutic encounter?

Stage 7

Out of the three levels of awareness identified by Carl Rogers, the first level involves events that are experienced below the threshold of awareness and are either _____ or _____.

Ignored

Carl Rogers believed that the most basic outcome of successful client-centered therapy is a _____ client.

Congruent

Carl Rogers was of the notion that as children become aware that another person has some measure of regard for them, they begin to value _____.

Positive regard

According to Carl Rogers, science begins and ends with the _____, although everything in between must be objective and empirical.

Subjective experience

According to Carl Rogers, a _____________________ arises when the positive regard of a significant other is conditional.

Condition of worth

According to Carl Rogers, to be _____ means to be real or genuine, to be whole or integrated, to be what one truly is.

Congruent

In the context of Carl Rogers' process of therapy, Stage 1 of therapeutic change is characterized by clients’ _____.

Unwillingness to communicate anything about themselves

After therapeutic change, a congruent client becomes _____.

Less defensive and more open to experience

Carl Rogers believed that scientists must have many of the characteristics of _____.

The person of tomorrow

Notes from Exam Review:

• lived his childhood highly conservative, intended to become farmer

• 2 Subsystems of the Self

  • self-concept — what you percieve yourself to be

  • ideal — what you strive to be

• Organismic Self

According to Rogers what do we all need?

positive regard

When therapists accept and value the client without judgment, what is this called (according to Rogers)?

Unconditional Positive Regard — Carl Rogers (Humanistic Therapy)