Evaluate the claim that Person-Centred Therapy offers the therapist all that he/she will need to treat clients. In this essay I shall be evaluating the claim that person-centred therapy offers the therapist all that he / she will need to treat clients. I will define what personal centred therapy (PCT) is and I will look at the origins of this therapy with particular reference to Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers and examine the fundamental elements necessary for the therapy to be seen as patient centered. I will compare the benefits and disadvantages of person -centred therapy and try to establish whether a therapist can treat all clients effectively using just the one approach or whether it is more beneficial to the client for the therapist to use a more multi-disciplinary approach. To be able to discuss this subject it is important to describe first what we mean when discussing PCT, Person - Centred Therapy, also known as client-centered, non-directive, or Rogerian therapy, this is an approach to counselling and psychotherapy that places much of the responsibility for the treatment process on the client, with therapist taking a non-directive role.
“Evaluate the claim that Person-Centred Therapy offers the therapist all that he/she need to treats clients” We need to look at what the role of Person centred Therapy is in order to understand how the above statement can work. The basis of this therapy is to encourage the client to become more self-aware without the prompting of the therapist and being non directive. Aiding the client to arrive at this point by reflecting, paraphrasing and or summarising what they have said and displaying the three Core Conditions of Empathy, Congruence and Unconditional Positive Regard. Is this therapeutic relationship between therapist and client enough in order to assist the client to arrive at the solutions they need to address their problem? I will discuss this point and also the Core Conditions, underlying philosophical influences along with Rogers’s main theoretical constructs in this essay.
Evaluate the claim that Person-Centred Therapy offers the therapist all that he/she need to treat the clients. I will be assessing if a client can be solely treated by the Person Centred Therapy. Whilst establishing the pros and cons of Person Centred Therapy. Person or Client Centred therapy is also known as Rogerian or non-directive approach that puts the client in the driving seat. They decide what they will talk about and the therapist facilities what comes up in the room.
“Analyze Beccaria’s argument against the judicial torture within the framework of Enlightnment values, and explain if you find his position still relevant today.” Cesare Beccaria, an enlightenment era philosopher that argued against the many problems that were wrong with the judicial system. He argued against the judicial torture by using the enlightenment ideas, since torture it was a big concern in his time and that it was lacking fairness and usefulness. Beccaria’s fundamental faith that he truly believed in was that all human beings are rational creatures that can join each other in peace and harmony in order to achieve a mutual benefit. Since the enlightenment ideals consisted of a social contract that all made political authority a legitimate authority because of the individuals within the society who joined together for a mutual benefit. Meaning that the authority that was elected by the society had to be beneficial to the society; as well as the right and wrong actions depended on the effect that these actions had on the unhappiness and happiness of an individual.
CounsellingResourcecom Library With the client as the expert and under the right conditions Rogers believed that they would discover solutions to their own problems. ‘Individuals have within themselves vast resources for self understanding and for altering their self concept basic attitudes and self directive behaviour’ Carl Rogers Way of Being 1980 Rogers asserted that in order for a client to achieve self actualisation then a set of Core Conditions should be in place and practiced during the relationship, listing these core conditions as:- * Psychological Contact – that there must be a connection between therapist and client * Incongruence – that the client must
| Evaluate the claim that Person-Centred Therapy offers the therapist all that he/she will need to treat clients | | | | | | Evaluate the claim that Person-Centred Therapy offers the therapist all that he/she will need to treat clients Person-centred therapy, or client centred therapy as it is sometimes known, is a “non-directive form of talk therapy” which was originally developed by the humanist psychologist Carl Rogers and is currently one of the most widely used approaches in psychotherapy (Cherry, 2012). Rogers’ therapy was based on the idea of building a relationship with the client wherein they feel comfortable, respected, safe, and free to express themselves in a non-judgemental environment (Chrysalis, 2010). Rogers states that he used to ask himself “how can I treat, or cure, or change this person?” (Rogers, 1961) but through experience of working with clients he has found that he, as a therapist can’t change or ‘cure’ any client through techniques which have been taught or trained for. Rogers believes that while it is possible to explain a person to himself, to prescribe steps which should move them forward, to train them in how to lead a more satisfying way of life, that all such methods are futile and inconsequential because the most that they can do is bring about some temporary form of change (Rogers, 1961). This type of change is said to, more often than not, soon disappear, leaving the client more convinced than ever of their inadequacy.
‘‘Evaluate the claim that person centred therapy offers the therapist all that he/she will need to treat clients’’ Abraham Maslow’s theory about the development of mankind relies on the premise that mans behaviour arises from the way in which he continually strives to satisfy his needs. Maslow believes the needs are in hierarchy or urgency it goes on a pyramid with physiological needs such as food, warmth, shelter, sex etc at the bottom of the pyramid followed by safety needs that offers security, order, predictability and freedom of threat. Then love/ social needs for relationships, affection and belonging it goes up the hierarchy to self esteem needs which helps indecency, recognition, status and respect from others, with at the top of the pyramid is self actualisation which is a fulfilment of personal potential Maslow suggested that a person is constantly motivated to satisfy their needs and at any point in time his behaviour will be directed at satisfy a need that is lowest in the hierarchy will need to be satisfied the most. All need in the hierarchy of needs is present in one form or another but only when the basic needs are fulfilled will the next level emerge. Where the lower biological needs are likely to be fulfilled more complex needs become ‘pre-eminent’.
Evaluate the claim that Person-centred therapy offers the therapist all that he/she will need to treat clients. In this essay I am going to be exploring an approach to therapy called client led therapy that was devised by Humanistic Psychologist Carl Rogers in America in the 1950s. I will be looking at what client centred therapy actually is, Rogers beliefs about people and his theory, the strengths and weaknesses of this approach and my own personal perception of it as a whole. Client centred therapy is a method of Psychotherapy formed by Carl Rogers in which the client leads and controls the content and the sessions that they engage in with the therapist. The therapy is constantly non-directive on the therapist’s part, meaning that the therapist does not guide the client in any way, does not offer suggestion or advice and does not interpretations or diagnoses during the therapy.
Providing arguments for the hedonism and desire satisfactionist against knowledge being counted as a basic good can be accomplished by outlining their respective positions and then show that knowledge need not be a basic good in those systems. In this paper, I will first outline hedonism, then show how knowledge is excluded as a basic good. Then I will outline desire satisfactionism and show how knowledge is excluded as a basic good in that system as well. Hedonism states that a life is good for the person who lives it if that life contains a favorable balance of pleasure over pain.Since this is the case, according to hedonism, knowledge is not a basic good, pleasure is the basic good. The reason why knowledge is not a basic good is because hedonism gives it no value toward the evaluation of lives.
Word Count - 2448 “Evaluate the claim that Person Centred Therapy offers the Therapist all that she/he will need to treat Clients” Introduction In this essay I will be evaluating “Person Centred Therapy” in relation to the claim that it can give everything that a Therapist needs in order for a successful outcome in treating a client. I will look at the advantages and disadvantages of the therapy. I will include the main theoretical constructs and underlying philosophical influences. I will also discuss the way in which Carl Rogers explains and responds to psychological disorders and to what extent this approach is useful in treating these disorders. Person Centred Therapy became associated with the human potential movement.