1. Person/Client Centered Therapy

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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