Carl Rogers Person-Centered Theory Pertemuan 19 Matakuliah: L0194 – Psikologi Kepribadian Tahun: 2010

Bina Nusantara Carl Ransom Rogers

Bina Nusantara Basic Assumptions Formative tendency –From simpler to more complex forms Actualizing tendency –See move toward completion or fulfillment of potentials Need for maintenance, is expressed in people’s desire to protect ther current, comfortable self concept Need for enhancement, is to become more, to develop, and to achieve growth Human actualization tendency is realized only under certain conditions: involve with person who had emphaty, congruent, unconditional positive regards  opportunity to self actualization

Bina Nusantara Self  awareness as I/ Me Self Actualization  tendency to actualize the self as perceived in awareness Self concept The ideal self Incongruence

Bina Nusantara Awareness Experiences that ignored or denied Woman walking down a busy street Mother who had no willing to have children Accurately symbolize the experience that consistent with their self concept The pianist Experiences that are perceived in distorted form, so it can be assimilated into our existing self concept The pianist with his distrusted competitor and trusted rival

Bina Nusantara Becoming a person

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Defense Defensiveness  the protection of self concept against anxiety and threat by denial or distortion of experiences inconsistent with it (Rogers, 1959) –Distortion  misinterpret an experiences in order to fit it into some aspects of our self concept Perceive experience in awareness, but fail to understand its true meaning –Denial  refuse perceive an experiences in awareness or keeping it ro reach symbolization

Bina Nusantara Disorganization Cause: discrepancy between people’s organismic experience and their view of self too obvious or occurs too suddenly to be denied or distorted

Bina Nusantara Client-Centered Therapy Condition Process Outcomes

Bina Nusantara Characteristic healthy person More adaptable Open to their experiences Trust in their organismic selves Live fully in moment  existential living Harmonious relations with others More integrated Basic trust of human nature Enjoy a greater richness in life