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"actualizing tendency," or self-actualization

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person-centered therapy identifies that each person has the capacity and desire for personal growth and change. "an inbuilt proclivity toward growth and fulfillment"

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Empathy

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(the three 'Core Conditions') is the ability to recognize and relate to other people's emotions and thoughts.

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Unconditional Positive Regard

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(the three 'Core Conditions') is unconditional acceptance, love, or affection. The term is credited to the humanist psychologist Carl Rogers. It differs from unconditional love in that there need not be actual feelings of warmth and affection behind the attitude.

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Therapist-Client Psychological Contact

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This first condition simply states that a relationship between therapist and client must exist in order for the client to achieve positive personal change. The following five factors are characteristics of the therapist-client relationship, and they may vary by degree.

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Client Incongruence or Vulnerability:

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A discrepancy between the client's self-image and actual experience leaves him or her vulnerable to fears and anxieties. The client is often unaware of the incongruence

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Therapist Congruence or Genuineness

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The therapist should be self-aware, genuine, and congruent. This does not imply that the therapist be a picture of perfection, but that he or she be true to him- or herself within the therapeutic relationship.

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Therapist Unconditional Positive Regard (UPR):

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(the three 'Core Conditions') The clients' experiences, positive or negative, should be accepted by the therapist without any conditions or judgment. In this way, the client can share experiences without fear of being judged.

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Therapist Empathy:

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The therapist demonstrates empathic understanding of the clients' experiences and recognizes emotional experiences without getting emotionally involved.

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Client Perception:

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To some degree, the client perceives the therapist's unconditional positive regard and empathic understanding. This is communicated through the words and behaviors of the therapist.

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Congruence

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(the three 'Core Conditions') the willingness to transparently relate to clients without hiding behind a professional or personal facade.

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Therapeutic Goals

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The therapist does not choose goals for the client. With a facilitating therapist, the client has the capacity to define and clarify goals.

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Rogers describes clients in therapy, when the facades are worn away, as:

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1. openness to experience 2. a trust in themselves 3. an internal source of evaluation 4. willingness to continue growing

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Therapist Function

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is ti be present and accessible to clients and to focus on their immediate experience.

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Person centered therapy is best described as a completed and fix school or model of therapy

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False

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Diagnosis of clients is seen as an important beginning point of therapy

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False

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A major contribution of this approach has been the willingness of Rogers to state his formulations as testable hypothesis and submit them to research

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True

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Accurate empathetic understanding implies an Objective understanding of a client and some form of diagnosis

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False

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Directive procedures are called for when the client feels that they are stuck in therapy

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False

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Free association is a basic part of this therapy

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False

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This approach holds that the direction of therapy is the primary responsibility of the quiet not the therapist

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True

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A limitation of this approach is that it is long-term process

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False

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Transference is seen as the core of this therapy

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False

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Interpretations by the therapist typically tend to interfere with client growth according to Rogers

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False

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The founder of person centered therapy is

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Carl Rogers

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Person centered therapy is a form of

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Humanistic therapy

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Which of the following is considered important and in person centered therapy Accurate diagnosis, accurate therapist interpretation, analysis of transference relationship, all of the above, none of the above

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None of the above

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Congruence refers to the therapist Genuineness, empathy for clients, positive regard, respect for clients, Judge mental attitude

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Genuineness

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In person centered therapy transference is: In necessary but sufficient condition of therapy, and core part of the therapeutic process, a neurotic distortion, a result of ineptness on the therapist part, not an essential or significant factor in the therapy process

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Not an essential or significant factor in the therapy process

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Unconditional positive regard implies The therapist acceptance of the clients right to all his or her feelings, the therapist acceptance of the client as a person of worth, acceptance of all the clients past behavior, both A and b

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The therapist acceptance of the clients rights to his or her feelings, the therapist acceptance of the clients as a person of worth

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Accurate empathetic understanding refers to therapist ability to Accurately diagnose the client central problems, objectively understand the dynamic of the client, like in care for the client, since the inner world of the client subjective experience

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Since the interest of the client subjective experience

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Which technique is most often used in person centered approach? Questioning and probing, analysis of assistance, free association, active listening and reflection, interpretation

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Active listening and reflection

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Which statement is most true of person centered theory? Therapist should be judgmental at times, therapist should direct the sessions with clients or Silent, the skill a therapist possesses is more important than his or her attitude towards a client, the technique a therapist uses are less important then his attitude.

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The techniques a therapist uses our lesson Porten than his or her attitude

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Which of the following is a contribution of person centered view? It calls attention to the need to account for a person's inner experience, it relies on research to validate the concepts and practices of the approach, it provides a therapist with a variety of therapeutic techniques, it focuses on objective use of behavior, both A and b

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It calls attention to the need to account for a person's inner experience, it relies on research to validate the concepts and practices of the approach

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One strength of person center approach is that

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Therapist have the latitude to develop their own counseling style

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A limitation of person centered approach is

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Tendency for practitioners to give support without challenging clients sufficiently

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Rogers made a contribution to Developing humanistic movement in psychotherapy, pioneering research in the process and outcomes of therapy, fostering world peace, pioneering the encounter group movement

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All of the above

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As a result of experiencing person centered therapy it is hypothesize the client will move towards Self trust, and internal source of valuation, being more open to experience, a willingness to continue growing, all the above

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All of the above

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Unconditional positive regard refers to Feeling a sense of liking for clients, excepting clients as worthy person's, approving of clients behavior, agreeing with clients values, excepting clients if they meet the therapist expectations

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Excepting clients as worthy person's

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Accurate Empathic Understanding

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the therapist's ability to sense the client's inner world (the clients subjective experience)

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Congruence

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a state in which one's own experiences are accurately represented by one's self-concept; there is a matching of inner experience with external expressions; also refers to the genuineness of the therapist

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Facilitator

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the role the therapist takes in person-centered therapy

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Genuineness

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a state of authenticity resulting from self0analysis and a willingness to accept the truth of who one is

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Humanistic Psychology

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a movement emphasizing freedom, choice, values, growth, self0actualization, spontaneity, creativity, play, humor, and psychological health

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Nondirective Counseling

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the type of counseling that assumes the client is the one who knows what is best and should not be in a passive role. This results in the therapist permitting the client to lead the counseling instead of the therapist doing the leading.

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Incongruence

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the discrepancy between self-concept and ideal self-concept. Incongruence usually results in anxiety, which can serve as a clue to the existence of a problem

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Internal Source of Evaluation

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the process of looking to oneself for answers to problems

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Personal Power

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the sense of strength that comes from knowing oneself and one's ability ot mobilize energy. The therapist's ability to access his or her own personal power facilitates the client's development of personal power, rather than controlling other people

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Self

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Actualization - an inner growth force leading to the development of one's potential and the basis of people being rusted to resolve their own problems in a therapeutic relationship

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Therapeutic Conditions

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the necessary conditions of the therapeutic relationship that allow the client to change. These conditions include therapist congruence, unconditional positive regard, and accurate empathic understanding

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Unconditional Positive Regard

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the acceptance of the client's right to all of his or her feelings without conditions imposed by the therapist

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