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Actualization tendency

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The basic human motivation to actualize, maintain, and enhance the self

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Organismic valuing process

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The process by which we judge experiences in terms of their value for fostering or hindering our actualization and growth

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Positive regard

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Acceptance, love, and approval from others

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Unconditional positive regard

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Approval granted regardless of a person’s behaviour. In Roger’s person-centred therapy, the therapist offers the client unconditional positive regard.

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Positive self-regard

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The condition under which we grant ourselves acceptance and approval

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Conditions of worth

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To Rogers, a belief that we are worthy of approval only when we express desirable behaviours and attitudes and refrain from expressing those that bring disapproval from others; similar to the Freudian superego

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Conditional positive regard

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Approval, love, or acceptance granted only when a person expresses desirable behaviours and attitudes.

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Incongruence

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A discrepancy between a person’s self-concept and aspects of his or her experience

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Fully functioning person

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Rogers’s term for self-actualization, for developing all facets of the self

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Person-centred therapy

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Rogers’s approach to therapy in which the client is assumed to be responsible for changing his or her personality

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Encounter groups

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A group therapy technique in which people learn about their feelings and about how they relate to (or encounter) one anther.

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Q-sort technique

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A self-report technique for assessing aspects of the self-concept