CHAPTER 9: CARL ROGERS PERSON CENTERED THEORY

Person Centered Theory

talks about Rogerian personality theory, concerned with how to help people grown and develop.

formative tendency

refers to tendency to evolve from simpler to more complex form.

actualizing tendency

the tendency within all human to move toward completion or fulfillment of potentials.

need for maintenance

includes basic needs as food, air, and safety. The tendency to resist change and to seek the status quo

status quo

preferring things to stay the way it is.

enhancement

need to become more, to develop, and to achieve growth. It is people’s willingness to learn things that are not immediately rewarding.

self-actualization

according to rogers it is the tendency to actualize the self as perceived awareness.s

self-concept

this the way you see yourself.

ideal self

this is what we want to be in the future, the qualities we wish that we have.

awareness

the symbolic representation of some portions of our experience.

accurately symbolized

it is a level of awareness; when a non-threatening and consistent experience is aligned with our self-concept, we freely admit it.

distorted

it is a level of awareness; when our experience is not consistent with our view of self, we reshape or distort the experience for it to be aligned with our existing self-concept.

denial of positive experience

this it the act of denying a compliment even those genuinely dispense because the person distrust the giver or the recipient does not feel deserving of them.

conditions to worth

a barrier to psychological health that arises when positive regard of a significant other is conditional.

incongruence

the conditions of worth cause a false concept that leads to inharmony with organistic experience.

vulnerability

arises when the incongruence between self-concept and organismic experience become greater. Exist when we have no awareness of incongruence within our self.

anxiety and threat

arises as we gain awareness of incongruence

defensiveness

protection of the self-concept against anxiety and thereat by the denial or distortion of experience inconsistent with it.

Distortion

we misinterpret an experience in order to fit our self-concept.

denial

refuse to perceive an experience in awareness

disorganization

happens when the defenses fail

unconditional positive regard

a feeling of total love and acceptance

organismic valuing process

a natural instinct directing us toward the most fulfilling pursuits,