1. History of Person-Centred Therapy
Catherine Drewer

2. Everyone will be able to name the 3 main approaches to Therapy
Learning Aims
Everyone will be able to name the 3 main approaches to Therapy
Most will be able to name the fundamental premise of Humanistic Therapy
Some will be able to explain the person-centred view of personality change

3. History 3 major schools or approaches towards counselling
Psychodynamic
Behavioural
Humanistic
Classical client centred therapy
Focusing Therapy
Experiential Person-Centred Therapy
Existentially informed Person Centred Therapy
Integrative Person Centred Therapy
Psychodynamic includes theories such as attachment theory, Freudian approach, Jungian, Kleinian, Adler – TA
Behavioural – CBT, RET, REBT – all based on operant conditioning and key people are Winnicott, Skinner and Zimbardo
Humanistic –

4. Humanistic Therapy
Arose as a response to the limitations of Freud and Skinner
Based in the philosophy of Socrates
A person’s inherent drive towards self-actualisation
Really it’s about trusting in humanity and believing that each human is valuable and worthy
Behaviourism = skinner
Psychoanalytic = Freud = limited
Socrates = No one desires evil.
No one errs or does wrong willingly or knowingly.
Virtue—all virtue—is knowledge.
Virtue is sufficient for happiness.

5. Humanistic theories

6. Glossary of Terms in Humanistic theory
Self
Self structure
Self concept
Organismic self
Real self
Ideal self
Locus of evaluation
Conditions of worth
Fully functioning person

7. Rogers
Rogers started at the Child Study Department of the Rochester Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children at the age of 26
He wrote The Clinical Treatment of the Problem child which was published in this is where you can see the first inkling of his theory.

8. He noted:
The relationship with the parents of the problem child was vital
The interventions only work with parents who want to be helped
The relationship between helper and parent was the essential feature
The interventions were successful when they helped the parents to clarify their feelings and bring about self-acceptance
Parents arrive at their own solutions independently
Non-interference is the essence of effective interventions
Success relies on the individual’s tendency toward growth

9. Suggested further reading
Rogers, C (1942), Counselling & Psychotherapy: Newer Concepts in Practice, Houghton Mifflin,
Sanders, P (2006), The Person-Centred Counselling Primer, Ross on Wye, PCCS Books