Person Centered Theory Analysis

Carl Rogers (1902-87) was the founder of the client-centred or person-centred approach to counselling and therapy. (McLeod 2001)

Based on my past experience and a review of this week’s reading, I believe the theories that best fit with my personal philosophies are the Person-centered therapy and Existential therapy. As Experiential and Relationship-Oriented Therapies, these theories share some key concepts that really fit with how I see my role in the therapeutic relationship and what I believe about personal power and change.

My beliefs about human life are intricate. We are complex individuals that are shaped not only by our genes, but also by our environments, our experiences and interactions with others. Surely, the way that people behave can be due to psychological disorders that we are not at fault for, however, I also believe that issues involving anxiety, stress and depression are often perpetuated by our own thinking processes and how we feel about ourselves in comparison to the beliefs of others. Often times, I feel that having someone to listen, validate, empathize and care for us is what it takes for change to take place. As social beings, I believe that through interactions with a person who we care about and a person that cares about us, improvements can be made. In this paper, I will discuss how my philosophy of life relates to that of person-centered therapy, as described by Sharf (2016).

There are three important aspects to the therapist’s approach; congruence, unconditional positive regard and accurate empathic understanding. These are three core conditions that facilitate the actualization and growth. These conditions relate to the shared journey in which therapists and clients reveal their humanness and participate in a growth experience together.Its only

Planning tools may need to be adapted and terminology often needs to be changed so that it can be understood by the person. It is essential that the person’s preferred ways of communicating are taken into account so that they can play a full part in the planning process

A counselor that is empathetic towards the client will often show that he or she is sharing the individual’s experience (Zaki, 2014). In the video, the counselor verbally asked open-ended questions and reflected what he was told. The counselor also reflected words or analogies

A Person centred approach is about ensuring someone with a disability is at the centre of decisions which relate to their life. A person centred process involves listening, thinking together, coaching, sharing ideas, and seeking feedback. By working in a person centred way we ensure that the individuals we are working with are listened to and that we focus on what matters to the individual and that their families pay attention to how staff support. This can be done with one page profiles, person centred reviews and full PCP’s.

In the humanistic approach in counselling there is a vital importance that the core conditions between client and counselling are present from

The empathic response includes the key elements of a client’s feelings, emotions, and moods to express in verbal and nonverbal cues. The therapist then identifies variety perspectives of the client’s feelings that are revealed in a counseling session for accuracy. The therapist takes the emotion of the client into consideration for gaining a connection with them. Sometimes, the client’s mood can provide a better understanding of the message given, nonverbally. The therapist has to be careful about detecting the client’s emotional intensity for determining the client’s feeling; therefore, it is expressed in a message along with an analysis of the client nonverbal behavior. The empathic response consists of naming, labeling, restating the client’s experiences, explaining their relation to the client’s feelings, and respectful nonverbal signs. According to client’s cultural difference, the counselor has to be extremely delicate in naming and labeling the emotions. The therapist restates the client’s experiences by confirming the interpretation of the message that is given

This essay will compare and contrast three theoretical approaches to counselling – psychoanalysis, person-centered therapy and cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT).

Portray empathy without appearing overly sympathetic, reassurance of non-abandonment from counselor control of frustration with client and elude calmness in light of anger outbursts

Empathy is a Key word in person-centered counseling. However, many people, even very experienced mental health professionals can’t explain the difference between the two. They believe they are being empathetic, when in reality, they are being sympathetic.

MI is a relatively new form of evaluating a client’s outcome based on “accurate empathy”. Accurate empathy in clinical study can be measured, something that can be improved by training, and it can predict the client’s outcome. (Miller & Moyers, 2017, para. 1) Roger’s used therapeutic communication like ‘dialectical behavioral’ therapy and ‘emotion-focused’ therapy emphasizing accurate empathy. (Miller & Moyers, 2017) Motivational Interviewing was not created through a preexisting theory but from experience in a clinical practice. After the paradigm shift to patient centered therapy there was an essence of guiding the conversation so that it would be the client rather than the counselor voicing the reasons to change. This gentle approach for counseling promotes the autonomy and personal choice and a

Empathy is a powerful communication skill that is often misunderstood and underused. Ultimately, it is a statement that the counsellor seems ‘in tune’ or ‘resonates’ with the clients hidden thoughts and feelings. Empathy is a normal human reaction and is crucial to good counselling, showing the client understanding gives that human sense of dignity and helps begin the recovery of self-esteem. Without empathy and the respect and dignity that it brings, counselling becomes a cruel parody of

No matter what the specific theoretical orientation one assumes, counseling sessions and doing psychotherapy consist of a two-way communication between counselor/therapist and client that is designed to help one person (the client) learn to understand themselves better. The goal is to help the client learn to adapt, adjust, or moderate their behavior, cognitions, and emotions in order to achieve better mental and physical health or to make their lives more comfortable (Fleming, 1967). This communication develops into a personal relationship that is bound by several variables including the personal aspects of the client, the psychological orientation of the therapist, and the particular goals of the therapeutic relationship. This relationship begins as soon as the client and counselor meet. However, the particular skills of the therapist, how they are used, what skills the therapist deems important, and how they are applied can be crucial to the development of the therapeutic relationship as well as to the therapeutic outcome (Westen, Novotny, & Thompson-Brenner, 2004). Historically there are two views on what makes psychotherapy effective: on one side are supporters of specific treatments claiming that these are