Counselling Level Three Week Seven Carl Roger’s PCA by numbers: part two

You will be invited to: Check-in with yourself and the group Share your shoe-box and invite feedback from the group Consider Roger’s three core conditions and six necessary and sufficient conditions. Discuss the implications of Rogers theories on counselling practise. Homework: Read Carl Roger’s Nineteen Propositions and Dr Mulhauser on PCC (provided)

Shoe Box

Three and Six Three core conditions: Empathy Congruence UPR

Three and Six Three core conditions: Empathy Congruence UPR

Empathy “At its most basic, empathy is a simple restatement of someone else’s words to show that they are heard and understood. But at it’s richest, it involves a fearless exploration of another’s inner world, a sensing of meanings unspoken, a compassionate naming of pain, suffering and humiliation, and of mischievousness and joy. The fullest empathy does not censor or discriminate. It sees the whole world as the other person sees it and is wholly accepting of that world”. (Tolan, 2012:18) Tolan, Janet (2012) Skills in Person-centred Counselling and Psychotherapy. 2 nd edn. London: Sage Publications

Congruence in Counselling Internal and external “It has been found that personal change is facilitated when the psychotherapist is what he is, when in the relationship with his client he is genuine and without front and façade, openly being the feelings and attitudes which are at that moment flowing in him.” (Rogers 1967, p.61)

Unconditional Positive Regard “UPR is the phrase used to describe the fundamental attitude of the person-centred counsellor towards his or her client. The counsellor who holds this attitude deeply values the humanity of his/her client and is nor deflected by any particular client behaviours. The attitude manifests itself in the counsellor’s consistent acceptance of and enduring warmth towards his/her client” Mearns and Thorne (2002:64) Mearns and Thorne (2002) Person centred counselling in action. 2 nd edn. London: Sage Publications.

6 Necessary and Sufficient Conditions 1.Two persons are in contact 2.The first person, whom we shall term the client, is in a state of incongruence, being vulnerable or anxious. 3.The second person, whom we shall term the therapist is congruent in the relationship. 4.The therapist is experiencing unconditional positive regard towards the client 5.The therapist is experiencing empathic understanding of the client’s internal frame of reference. 6.The client perceives at least to a minimal degree conditions four and five, the unconditional positive regard for him and the empathic understanding of the therapist. (Rogers, 1959, cited by Natiello 2001p.5-6) Natiello, P. (2001) Person-centred approach: a passionate presence. Ross-on Wye: PCCS Books