Name: Ume HabibaRoll no: 12013901-032

Title:Client Centered

Therapy

By : Carl Roger

Therapy:- Therapy offers you a safe, confidential

place to talk about your life and anything that may be confusing, painful or uncomfortable. It allow you to talk with someone who is trained to listen attentively and to help you improve things or problems.

Roger biography1902 – 1987:Carl Rogers was born January 8, 1902 in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, the fourth of six children.  His father was a successful civil engineer and his mother was a housewife and devout Christian. He is best known as the founder of ‘client-centered’ or ‘non directive’ therapy.   

Conti…

• Client-centered therapy was developed in the 1930s by the American psychologist Carl Rogers. Rogers was a humanistic psychologist who believed how we live in the here-and-now and our current perceptions are more important than the past.

Definition:• Person-centered therapy, which is also

known as client-centered, non-directive, or Rogerian therapy, is an approach to counseling and psychotherapy that places much of the responsibility for the treatment process on the client, with the therapist taking a nondirective role.

Purpose:Self esteem:- Openness to

experience:-  self-

esteem reflects a person's overall subjective emotional evaluation of his or her own worth. It is a judgment of oneself as well as an attitude toward the self.

Openness to experience are generally receptive to entertaining new and challenging facets of cultural life, as well as personal thoughts and emotions.

Background:• Developed in the 1930s by the

American psychologist Carl Rogers, client-centered therapy departed from the typically formal, detached role of the therapist emphasized in psychoanalysis and other forms of treatment.

Conti….•Rogers believed that therapy should take place in a supportive environment created by a close personal relationship between client and therapist. •In person-centered therapy, the client determines the general direction of therapy, while the therapist seeks to increase the client's insight and self-understanding through informal clarifying questions

Process:

Genuineness

Unconditional positive regard

Empathy

person-centered therapy was not intended for a specific age group or subpopulation but has been used to treat a broad range of people.

His therapy has also been applied to persons suffering from depression, anxiety, alcohol disorders, cognitive dysfunction, and personality disorders .

APPLICATION:

Conti…. The person-centered approach can be used in individual, group, or 

family therapy . With young children, it is frequently employed as play therapy .

There are no strict guidelines regarding the length of person-centered therapy. Generally, therapists adhere to a one-hour session once per week.

The client also decides when to terminate therapy. Termination usually occurs when he or she feels able to better cope with life's difficulties.

Normal results: The expected results of person-centered therapy

includes:  Trust in one's inner feelings increased ability to learn from mistakes Most positive relationship with others An increased capacity to experience and express feelings at the moment they occur New way of thinking about life

Abnormal resultsIf therapy has been unsuccessful: The client will not move in the direction

of self growth An individual is not interested in therapy He or she may continue to display

behaviors that reflect self-defeating attitudes or rigid patterns of thinking.