Client-centered Therapy Corey Chapter 7 – Flashcards
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Four Periods of Development
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Nondirective Counseling Client-Centered Therapy Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Therapy Person-Centered Therapy
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Nondirective Counseling
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provided a powerful and revolutionary alternative to the directive and interpretive approaches to therapy then being practiced.
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Client-Centered Therapy
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emphasis on the client rather than on nondirective methods; shift from clarification of feelings to a focus on phenomenological world of the client
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Necessary & Sufficient Conditions of Therapy
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Becoming one's person
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Person-Centered Therapy
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The client rather than the therapist determined the direction and goals of therapy & the therapist's role was to help the client clarify feelings.
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Abraham Maslow
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pioneer in humanistic psychology; influential in furthering the understanding of self-actualization individuals
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Hierarchy of Needs
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Maslow's systematic arrangement of needs according to priority, which assumes the basic needs must be met before less basic needs are aroused; 1) Physiological 2) Safety 3) Love/Belonging 4) Esteem 5) Self-Actualization
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Congruence
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genuineness
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unconditional positive regard
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acceptance and caring
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accurate empathic understanding
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deeply grasp the subjective world of another person w/o getting lost.
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actualizing tendency
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directional process of striving toward realization, fulfillment, autonomy, and self determination
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therapeutic core conditions
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necessary and sufficient for therapeutic change to occur
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humanistic approach
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a way of being and a shared journed in which therapist and client reveal their humanness and participate in a growth experience
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Congruence (Genuineness)
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therapists are real; genuine, intergrated, and authentic during the therapy hour.
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Unconditional Positive Regard and Acceptance
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deep and genuine caring for the client as a person
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Empathy
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deep and subjective understanding of the client with the client
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3 Ways of Knowing in empathy
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subjective empathy, interpersonal empathy, objective empathy
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Subjective empathy
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enables practitioners to experience what it is like to be the client
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Interpersonal empathy
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understanding a client's internal frame of reference and conveying a sense of the private meaning to the person
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objective empathy
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knowledge sources outside of a client's frame of reference
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presence
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being completely attentive to and immersed in the client as well as in the client's expressed concerns
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immedicacy
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addressing what is going on between the client and therapist
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expressive arts therapy
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extends the person centered approach to spontaneous creative expression, which symbolizes deep and sometimes inaccessible feelings and emotional states.
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Motivational Interviewing
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a directive, client‐centered counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence. More focused and goal‐directed.
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Five Stages of Change
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pre contemplation stage contemplations stage preparation stage actions stage maintenance stage
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precontemplation stage
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stage of change in which people are unwilling to change behavior.
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contemplation stage
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acknowledge problem but may not be ready to commit to change.
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action stage
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occurs when a person actively implements behavioral and cognitive strategies to interrupt previous behavior patterns and adopt new ones; this stage requires a great commitment of time and energy
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maintenance stage
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the person integrates newly adopted behavior patterns into his or her lifestyle.
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MI Major Principles
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(1.) express empathy (2.) Develop discrepancy (3.) Roll with resistance (4.) support self-efficacy.
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Strengths of Person-Centered Therapy
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genuine and deep respect for client; empowers client; therapeutic relationship as key factor; focus on therapist and need for genuineness; counseling open to empirical scrutiny.
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Weakness of Person-Centered Therapy
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neglects other important factors that lead to psychopathology; emphasis on three core conditions too exclusive and extreme; lack of therapeutic techniques; simplistic approach to more severe forms of psychopathology.
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Biblical Perspective on Person-Centered Therapy
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(-) too optimistic on human nature (-) focus on the self (-) God is secondary to subjective experience (-) Agape love is not equal to unconditional positive regard (-) Need for Holy Spirit to give that unconditional positive regard (-) we need God love not human love (-) We need agape love to love others not just to self-actualize.
