Multiculturalism and Rogerian's Person-Centered Approach in Therapy

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Multiculturalism and Rogerian's Person-Centered Approach in Therapy CJHS/400 Multiculturalism and Rogerian's Person-Centered Approach in Therapy Psychologist Carl Rogers believed that every individual is unique. Because everyone is different nobody is better able to understand the feelings and causes of individual behavior than the individual. Individual perception is key to individual growth, and perception can be influenced by ones culture. In other words we all have within ourselves the ability to fix ourselves. According to Jones-Smith (2012), Person-centered therapy is founded on two basic hypothesis: (1) Each person has the capacity to understand the circumstances that cause unhappiness and to reorganize his or her life accordingly, and (2) a person’s ability to deal with these circumstances is enhanced if the therapist establishes a warm, accepting, and understanding relationship. (Jones-Smith, 2012, p. 238) In the following discussion learning team B will discuss the use of Rogerian’s person-centered approach as it relates to a multicultural society (Axia, 2014). The articles presented for discussion are (Article 1) Rogers’s Person-Centered Approach: Consideration for Use in Multicultural Counseling by Carol Macdougall (2002) and, (Article 2) Evidence-Based Practice and its Implications for Culturally Sensitive Treatment from the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development by Gargi Roysircar, G. (2009). Summary of Article 1 In modern society we have come to realize that the therapeutic practices of our past where limited to the needs of one demographic of people. In particular white America. As we have begun to evolve into a more culturally sensitive society we understand that therapeutic practices for one culture may not be acceptable in another culture. When tailoring a
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