Carl Rogers Flashcards
What is Rogers’ approach to therapy?
Person-center therapy.
What is Carl Rogers’ approach called?
Humanist psychology.
What are people motivated by to actualize, maintain and enhance themselves?
Actualization tendency
When does the actualization tendency start developing?
In the womb, facilitating human growth by providing for the differentiation of the physical organs and the development of physiological functioning.
What is the governing process throughout the life span through which we evaluate all life experiences by how well they serve the actualization tendency, called?
Organismic valuing process.
What is the idea of phenomenology?
Perception is subjective, and the only realioty of which one can be sure of is our own subjective world of existence.
What is the self-concept?
Distinguishing what is directly and immediately a part of the self from other people, objects, and external events.
What is the condition in which positive regard comes from within ourselves?
Positive self-regard.
What is a source of anxiety according to Rogers?
Experiences that are incongruent or incompatible with our self-concept. Ex: We love all humanity and then meet someone who we hate -> anxiety.
What are characteristics of fully functioning persons?
Exhibiting an awareness of all experience (no denial or defensiveness, open to all feelings). Live fully and richly in each moment (experiences are fresh and new, and participated in). Trust their own organism (trust their reactions and not opinion of others, behave in a way that feels right, all info can be perceived and evaluated). Feel a sense of freedom to make choices without constraints or inhibitions (they know their future depends on their own actions). Creative and live constructively and adaptively. (flexible and seek new experiences) They may face difficulties (testing, growing, striving, and using our potential). Fully functioning is a direction, not a destination.
