Central to the therapist's role in client-centred therapy is respecting the clients values as well as maintaining a therapeutic nonjudgmental attitude. This relationship can be even be more important, especially if the client doesn't have any family or friends. Because most clients seems to have lost a sense of value within themselves, having someone perceive them as a valuable person, capable of personal growth, should have an encouraging affect. The goals of the client-centered therapist are congruence, unconditional
Hawkins on the other hand presented a different yet equally as informative model. His concentric circles model was an excellent way of explaining the human personality. Additionally, the checklist seemed to be a handy tool for ensuring therapeutic progress. Hawkins seemed to place a greater emphasis on how to help a client achieve spiritual and psychological maturity. He explained that all parts of the human function are addressed in the healing journey.
Rogers also believed that people are inherently good and creative. However, he thought that people could become destructive when a poor self concept (how one sees oneself in comparison to others) or external constraints override the valuing process. Rogers thought that for a client to experience therapeutic change, certain conditions had to be present within the relationship. These conditions he called “The Core Conditions”, which were empathy, congruence (genuineness) and unconditional positive regard (respect). When Rogers talked about empathy, he meant the therapist should continually try to understand the client from their point of view (enter into their world to get a sense of how it feels)
I am going to explore the core conditions that Carl Rogers uses in his theory of person centred counselling. There are three core conditions: congruence, empathic understanding and unconditional positive regard. These conditions are what Carl Rogers believed are the skills a counsellor needs in order to be able to support the client in their process of healing themselves. I am then going to use my own experiences to discuss why I feel that only using the person technique, for certain clients, may not be sufficient to make the progress they require on an emotional level. On the other hand I am going to discuss how learning the person centred approach has affected my personal and work life in a positive way.
It is important to be positioned correctly as a therapist so you prevent yourself from pain or injury if you consistently and positioned correctly this can result in repetitive strain injury. • It is important to use the correct products, tools, equipment and technique because so the client can feel the best benefit from their treatment and it will not harm the client. • It is important to complete treatment records correctly so that you have on record if the client has any contra-indications which may prevent or restrict a treatment. You will also have on record anything the client may be allergic to. • It is important to complete the treatment to the satisfaction of the client so they go away feeling happy and return to you again in the future.
It also means understanding your duty of care, maintaining confidentiality etc. All of which should make abuse less likely to happen. 1. Explain how to evaluate the use of care plans in applying person centred values The way in which you would adapt the care plan to make it focus on a persons values would be to sit down and discuss with the client how they would be comfortable with the care that they’d be receiving. It may mean that a client would prefer things to be done in a specific way which a carer wouldn’t usually do.
Abuse victims request help but refuse to understand depths of help they receive. Victims can put therapist in danger by agreeing to the abusers request. The duty to keep the client and therapist safe has compromising influences from the abusers actions. Clients need to understand cutting all contact with abusers can have an effective outcome on treatment and keep individuals safe from abusive
The weaknesses could be their belief in free will is in opposition to the deterministic laws of science or the issues they investigate, such as consciousness and emotion, are amongst the most difficult to objectively study. In counselling I believe there is a higher chance to address individual’s needs as client centered therapy works on a one to one basis. This specifically enables the individual services users’ needs to be met. To enable client centered therapy I believe a good counsellor is needed without a judgmental approach. Also the service provider is needed to have empathy and know how to sympathise with the client.
The client may also come to the sessions having drawn up their own plans for progressing. This shows that the client is ready for change and is being much more assertive with their counsellor. A client counsellor session can also start to become quite stagnant. No further development would show that something is amiss. This is usually as a result of the client needing to gain more from their sessions rather than continually going over the same issues.
For many the relationship between client and counsellor is crucial to the success of the therapy and is based on trust and respect. Within counselling there are three main schools of influence namely the psychodynamic school, the humanistic school and the cognitive behaviour school (Nelson-Jones, 2011). The client or person-centred approach belongs to the humanistic school. Developed by Carl Rogers as an alternative to psychoanalyses and behaviourism during the 1950s, (McLeod, 2008, p170) he believed it would “help clients fulfil their unique potential” (Nelson-Jones 2011 p.83). He also attributed a certain mystical dimension to this form of counselling and emphasised the spiritual bond between client and counsellor (Nelson-Jones 2011).