Carl Rogers introduced the ‘self-theory’ which shows how the clients viewed oneself and how therapy would help them to change this view (Kleinman, 2012).
He was more focusing towards how one can help themselves with goals and less on being diagnosed to which Carl Rogers refer it as ‘fully-functioning person’ where one must be well adjusted, balanced and interested to know things. According to Kleinman (2012), Carl Rogers has his own theory where he rejected both behaviourism and psychoanalysis.
His theory explains that a person conducts in unquestionable ways how they view each situation and from that, they will know how to deal or judge things. This is what he calls as ‘self-actualization’. When ‘self-actualization’ is achieved, a person will then become a ‘fully-functioning person’. Rogers split this term into five different characteristic which are open to experience, existential living, trust feelings, creativity and fulfilled life (McLeod, 2014).
Self-actualization is accomplished when a person fulfils their potential and becomes fully-functioning, achieving the highest level of ‘human-beingness’ The state of congruence is where someone’s ideal-self is almost the same or is in uniform with their actual experiences. The opposite of being congruent is incongruence where a difference is found between one’s ideal-self and their experiences. Because everyone sees themselves as well-suited with their self-image, to attain a defensive characteristic or emotion represents an automatic feeling such as being in denial to feel good oneself and avoid undesirable feelings.
The Term Paper on Carl Jung’s Theory: Personality Types and How They Help Therapists
In this essay I aim to describe and evaluate Carl Jung’s theory concerning personality types and show how they might usefully help a therapist to determine therapeutic goals. I will also look at the origins and characteristics of attitudes and functions and show how these can be related to psychological disturbance. Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung was born in 1875 to a reverend who had lost ...
Carl Rogers also stressed on how people from the surrounding too, plays an important role in someone’s life. He believes that everyone needs to feel positiveness by others because human beings are endowed with natural desires to be valued, loved, respected and treated with affection. He separated this explanation into two ideas, unconditional positive regard and conditionally positive regard. Unconditional positive regard is where they become unafraid to challenge themselves in trying new things even in making mistakes because they are loved, respected and are accepted especially by important people in their lives.
Conditional positive regard is where one gets positiveness from others because of the way he or she behaves and people think that is correct. Rogers’ came out with a method that involves recording and filming while going through the sessions with his clients (Kirschenbaum & Henderson, 1989).
This method was done so that all the information especially the unnoticeable ones can be captured during each session with the client. It was also very helpful for the therapists so that they are able to give a better response for the client because they can have a look back at the recorded sessions and understand more through the client’s body language.
To prove Carl Rogers theory, he himself conducted a therapy session with a client named Mr. Bryan where Rogers acknowledged the feelings that Mr. Bryan had kept inside of him, and enabled it to grow and to be distinguished. Rogers became a sensitive counterpart to Mr. Bryan instead of an authoritative interrogator. At one point, Mr. Bryan came to a climate showing the existence described as ‘dynamic-self’ and with this, some responded saying that it is relevant to ‘reflection-of-feeling’ which made Rogers very unhappy about this situation and instead he came up with a different term called ‘double-insight’.
From my point of view as a therapist, I am not trying to ‘reflect feelings’. I am trying to determine whether my understanding of the client’s inner world is correct – whether I am seeing it as he or she is experiencing it at this moment. Each response of mine contains the unspoken question, ‘Is this the way it is in you? Am I catching just the colour and texture and flavour of the personal meaning you are experiencing right now? If not, I wish to ring my perception in line with yours. ’ On the other hand, I know from the client’s point of view we are holding up a mirror to his or her current experiencing.
The Term Paper on Counselling: Feeling and Client
In life there are many difficult situations that some people can just get past and move on where others become stuck and unable to move on effectively. In some cases these people will use family, friends or work colleagues to assists them, but in some cases this is either too hard to talk about due to its personal nature or the embarrassment it may cause. This is where counselling can be very ...
The feelings and personal meanings seem sharper when seen through the eyes of another, when they are reflected. (Thorne & Sanders, 2013) Carl Rogers started a system called Component Factor Method in the early 1930s and it was to allow a better view when diagnosing a child’s behaviour. This method was built upon eight factors and from the study of case history material that helps specify if individual cause was catastrophic of a child’s well-being, or if it was heading towards health, standard adaptation and behaviour.
The eight factors can be recognized as quality of family life and influence; economic, cultural background and influences; health history or constitution of the child; hereditary factor; intellectual development of the child; educational influences; social experience that the youngster had had; realistic acceptance of self and the realistic appraisal of the situation in which they find in themselves; and the acceptance of responsibility for oneself.
These components may not explain the phenomenal growth of ‘person-centred’ in the study of psychology but to explain this, one has to review and understand a person as well as the moment they are in.
