Monday 15 March 2010

Concepts of the Person-Centred approach

Some important concepts in the Person-centred approach are genuineness, congruence, unconditional positive regard, and empathetic understanding. The need for genuineness is met when the therapist provides an example to the client of what it is to be real and authentic. The sense of congruence that develops is important for the client who is often plagued with a lack of genuineness causing anxiety. This genuineness and congruence develop through unconditional positive regard that the counsellor provides to the client. This acceptance may be the first and only time the client does not feel judged with the environment of the sessions providing the client with the safety to explore their feelings and concerns. And finally, Rogers identified accurate empathetic understanding as another critical task of therapists. The counsellor seeks to understand in the moment how the client feels about their situations and genuinely expresses this to the client to encourage them to get closer to them self recognizing and resolving the incongruity that exists. The therapist experiences the client’s situation as if it was their own, seeing the world through the client’s eyes, and doing so without becoming overly enmeshed in the feelings and emotions of the situation.

The therapist must have the ability to be appropriately challenging of their clients without intervention into their client’s self-actualisation but still remaining empathic. This is the concern with this approach is the difficulty therapists have is allowing clients to come to their own decisions without the directive from the counsellor.

The most powerful way for one to learn is through discovery, or illumination. Lessons learned through self-experience are much more effective than a third party attempting to teach the same lesson. How much more rich is the experience for a child to discover something wondrous about the world, rather than it merely being told to them in front of a TV. Rogerian therapy totally embraces the non-directive role of a counsellor. Rogerian principles assert that clients find the solutions on their own in the context of a safe and accepting environment.

Because of its emphasis on unconditional positive regard and its basic assumption that humans are fundamentally good, Rogerian therapy may be considered weak in its ability in dealing with any genuinely destructive behaviour the client may be engaged in. However, in areas of trauma where the client has been victimized by extremely disturbing events, unconditional positive regard can be a valuable tool in the counsellor’s arsenal because of its ability to create a place of great safety for the client

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