Person/Client Centered Therapy

Process The client, not the therapist, is at the heart of the therapy Encourage clients own self insight Help them to move away from the self they are not, toward their true self “to be that self that one truly is” Become fully functioning The three “necessary and sufficient” conditions for growth and change in personality Congruence Unconditional Positive Regard Empathetic Understanding The Therapists Role: to give to clients a relationship with the above three conditions as most have never experienced

Main Themes Self Actualization Part of the innate Actualizing Tendency “the inherent tendency of the organism to develop all its capacities in ways which serve to maintain or enhance the organism” an ongoing process Guided by our Organismic Valuing Process Self Insight

Main Themes Self Concept Real Self vs. Ideal Self Positive regard Conditional positive regard Real Self vs. Ideal Self Congruence vs. Incongruence Unconditional Positive Regard